The discovery of the arsenal on 20 April 2022 as part of an operation by the mobile squad of the Caserta police headquarters
CASAL DI PRINCIPE – “The weapons were mine but I did not act to favor the clan. The weapons had been buried there since 2000 and no one has ever used them, my cousins knew nothing.”
These were the statements made by the boss Carlo Del Vecchiodetained under the 41 bis regime, in Catania, before the preliminary hearing judge Giovanni Vinciguerra, in the trial which sees him involved together with his cousins Pasquale, Leopoldo and Carlo Diana, held responsible for complicity in the possession of clandestine and common weapons of war, complete with various accessories and ammunition of different calibers, and for receiving stolen goods of some of them with the aggravating circumstance of having facilitated the Casalesi clan.
Del Vecchio in his spontaneous statements underlined the cousins’ strangeness regarding the contents hidden in their land.
The discovery of the arsenal on 20 April 2022 in an operation by the Caserta police headquarters’ flying squad. The police found some buried iron bins containing weapons in Pasquale Diana’s company, managed with his brothers Leopoldo and Carlo, located in via Macedonio in the Seponi area on the border between the municipalities of Castel Volturno and Cancello and Arnone, near an artesian well. war guns and various ammunition. According to the District Anti-Mafia Directorate of Naples, it was the arsenal of the Casalesi clan (Schiavone faction) of which Carlo Del Vecchio, Diana’s cousin, was a leading exponent. The repentant also provided information on the discovery of the weapons Maximum
Vitolo former brother-in-law of Carlo Del Vecchio.
