A 26-year-old man lost his life and three other people were injured last night in Naples during celebrations for the local team’s winning of its third Italian football championship title.
This was reported by the Campania capital’s Questura (police headquarters), according to which, however, it was probably a mob-related raid not connected with the sports celebrations.
The boy’s death “is absolutely unrelated to the celebrations,” Naples Prefect Claudio Palomba told SkyTg24. “What I would like to emphasize is the sense of responsibility of the Neapolitans: yesterday there was a traffic ban and it was largely observed. There were gates with law enforcement men manning them. The machine of organization worked,” the prefect concluded.
The deceased man – Vincenzo Costanzo, a resident of the eastern Neapolitan neighborhood of Ponticelli – had been hospitalized in serious condition at Cardarelli Hospital after being shot at in Piazza Volturno, near the central railway station. After the news of his death, people believed to be close to the victim allegedly damaged the Cardarelli’s emergency room.
Also shot in the same square was a 26-year-old from Portici, as well as a 24-year-old and a 20-year-old both from Ponticelli.
On Thursday evening Napoli won its third ‘Scudetto’ and their first since 1990, when late soccer great Diego Maradona played for the southern Italian team. The victory generated extensive celebrations not only in Naples but in many other cities in Italy and the world with a substantial presence of immigrants from southern Italy
