He was one of the last diehards of the Casalese Camorra, custodian of important secrets, but after 26 years in prison, most spent under the hard prison regime, Francesco Schiavone, known as ‘Sandokan’, undisputed leader of the Casalesi clan, decided to collaborate with justice. This was reported by the paper edition of the newspaper “Cronache di Caserta”. In recent days the police, as far as we know, went to Casal di Principe to propose to the clan leader’s relatives, including his son Ivahnoe, to enter the protection program, confirming ‘Sandokan’s’ desire to collaborate with the DDA of Naples. The start of the collaboration process by Schiavone is confirmed by the National Anti-Mafia Directorate. According to what we understand, the decision was made in recent weeks, during which the DNA and the DDA of Naples carried out work with the utmost discretion.
Before him his children repented
Schiavone was arrested in 1998 and sentenced to life imprisonment in the Spartacus maxi trial and for several murders; before him, his first-born son Nicola decided to repent in 2018, then his second son Walter in 2021. The other sons Emanuele Libero, who will be released from his cell next August, and Carmine remain in prison, while Sandokan’s wife, Giuseppina Nappa, is not in Casal di Principe. Sandokan’s decision could also be a message to some not to try to reorganize the clan, a way to put a tombstone on the aspirations of other possible successors. Francesco Schiavone’s collaboration could shed light on some unsolved mysteries, such as the killing of the clan’s founder Antonio Bardellino in Brazil in 1988, or on the connections between the Camorra and politics.
