According to him, he was one of the most important drug traffickers in Rome: «I grew up as a child in Tor Bella Monaca in the drug dealing squaresat 18-19 years old I was selling drugs on the street. Then they arrested me, in 2015 I got out and started trafficking mostly cocaine at very convenient prices, getting to sell it in the whole city or almost: in addition to Tor Bella Monaca, San Basilio, Marranella, Magliana, Primavalle, everywhere. I was gaining 100-120 kilos every month». That is, a monthly investment of over two and a half million euroswith related earnings.
Today, not yet forty years old, Fabrizio Capogna is the New drug informer in the Capital. Together with brother Simone is revealing the secrets of the clandestine trade of cocaine, heroin and tobacco, with related names, facts, misdeeds and betrayals: «Everyone says they are friends with everyone, but no one is anyone’s friend; there are no feelings, this is the disgusting nature of the drug world.”
Yesterday, for the first time, Capogna was called to testify in a courtroom, in the trial of the alleged murderer of Fabrizio Piscitelli, known as Diabolik. Mafia Murder linked to drug trafficking in which the leader of the Lazio ultras was involved himself, according to the Rome Prosecutor’s Office; the alleged killer is the Argentine Esteban Calderon, a “most faithful” follower of Leandro Bennatoanother leading figure in Roman crime. Of which the repentant has climbed many steps, especially by exploiting his good relations with the Albanian one. Which sells drugs purchased from Calabrian clans and other cartels, in Italy as in the rest of Europe. «During the Covid and lockdown period – says Capogna -, between March and June 2020, I was among the very few suppliers of cocaine who continued to work, because I had a contact with a group of Albanians who were in Belgium and who had it delivered to me with the trucks that transported food».
The leap in quality of the boy from Tor Bella Monaca happens thanks to an Albanian met after the first release from prison: she calls herself Lolli (there are few real names in circulation, but the repentant identifies everyone through photographs) and lives in Holland, where Capogna went to meet him: «He starts giving us drugs at much lower prices, 26,000 euros per kilo while before we paid 31 or 32,0000 for it».
This is how Capogna began to buy and sell ever-increasing quantities of cocaine, to the point of to annoy and make others greedy market managers: «Bennato, for example, with his overbearing ways, begins to pressure me to buy from them, He blames me for making the Albanian almighty instead of them, I answer them that it’s just a question of price, if they do the same as Lolli I have no problem buying from them; I’m a business guy, not up for discussion.”
When he says “they”, the repentant means Bennato and his business partner Giuseppe Molisso, both now in prison and raised in the shadow of Michael Senesethe Camorrista of Rome considered the “godfather” of the citystill able to call the shots. All suspected, now, of being the instigators of the murder of Piscitelli, who right next to the Senese had begun to take his first steps in the world of crime. In which, however, there are no true friends or feelings, as Capogna says. He himself is the victim of a sort of betrayal by Lolli, as he discovered after other Albanians stole ten kilos of drugs from him.
“They told me they didn’t have it in for me,” he explains, “but for that bastard who sold it to me, Lolli. In the discussions that followed I understood that Bennato and Molisso were also involved, to whom I was close since we spent a year in prison together, and he swore to me on his children that he had prevented them from hurting me. Then I discovered that Lolli had started working with them: they sat down at the table together while I was taking it in that place.”
In the meantime the now ex-boyfriend of Tor Bella Monaca has started business with Antonio Gala, «a Neapolitan who was in Spain and who guaranteed me a bit of security being close to the Camorra; through him I started buying 40-50 kilos a week in Spain, Belgium and Holland”. A growth that in October 2023 cost Capogna another drug spree taken and not paid for about 400,000 euros, to settle which he understood that he had to deal once again with Bennato and Molisso’s men: «At that point either I made war on them, but I didn’t have the strength, or I entrusted myself to justice, and so I decided to collaborate». To avoid being killed. That is, to end up like Piscitelli. Capogna says he knows the revenge intentions of his Albanian friends against the group of Bennato and Molisso: «One, Dorian Petoku, beat up Calderon in prison; and they told me that another, Riccardino, wrote two threatening messages to Bennato and Molisso in prison. Bennato sent word to him that they would see each other outside, but Molisso didn’t answer him».
