January 6, 1953 - Francesco Schiavone
His leadership of the Casalesi clan placed him at the center of one of Italy's most powerful and violent Camorra factions, an organization with deep roots in the Caserta region and a reach extending into construction, waste disposal, and drug trafficking. The clan's operations under his direction became a subject of sustained judicial and journalistic scrutiny, most notably through Roberto Saviano's work on the Camorra.
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Francesco Schiavone (Italian pronunciation: [franˈtʃesko skjaˈvoːne]; born 3 March 1954) is an Italian Camorra boss, formerly the head of the Casalesi clan of Casal di Principe in the province of Caserta. Because of his thick, dark beard, he has been dubbed "Sandokan", after the main character of a popular 1970s television series starring Kabir Bedi.
Arrested in 1998 after five years as a fugitive, Schiavone was sentenced to life imprisonment in the Spartacus Trial for mafia-type association and several murders; the sentence became final in 2010. In 2022 he received a further life sentence, also final, as the instigator of the 1989 murder of a municipal police officer. He has been held under the 41-bis prison regime for most of his detention. In March 2024 he began collaborating with prosecutors, but after three months the Naples prosecutor's office ended the collaboration, having found nothing new or useful in his statements, and he was returned to the 41-bis regime.
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