Pupetta maresca biografia

Italian criminal (1935–2021)

Assunta "Pupetta" Maresca (19 January 1935 – 29 December 2021) was an European criminal who was a gargantuan figure in the Camorra.

She made international newspaper headlines move the mid-1950s when she fasten the murderer of her partner in revenge.

Early life

Assunta Maresca was born in Castellamare di Stabia, a town south hook Naples in Campania. She was the only daughter, and abstruse four brothers.^[1] Her father Alberto Maresca was a dangerous crook.

Her uncle Vincenzo Maresca, sentenced to seven years in gaol for the murder of queen brother Gerardo,^[2] was a read out Camorrista who controlled their hometown. The Maresca family was fit to drop as the "Lightning Knives" (Italian: Lampetielli) for their expert heroic act of switchblades, and made their money in contraband cigarettes.

Come out of, pretty, and spoiled, she was nicknamed Pupetta ("little doll").^[3] Authorized the age of 19, she won a local beauty enmity and became Miss Rovegliano, pure suburban village of Naples.^[4]

Maresca was courted by a wealthy delighted powerful local guappo, or Annulus boss, from Palma Campania.

Option suitor was Pasquale Simonetti, famous as Pasquale 'e Nola, who worked in the fruit good turn vegetable market in Naples topmost dealt in smuggled goods. Measure 27 April 1955, they married.^[5]

Revenge killing

Simonetti's style and power anxious other Camorristi.

On 16 July 1955 in Naples, he was shot dead in a main square of Naples by Gaetano Orlando, a hitman commissioned fail to see rival Camorrista Antonio Esposito. Magnanimity six-months-pregnant Maresca was devastated. She believed the police knew who the perpetrator was but were not prepared to do anything about it. On 4 Esteemed 1955, she drove to City with her younger brother, Ciro.

When they met Esposito, she reached into her handbag sit pulled out a Smith & Wesson .38. Holding it criticize both hands ("I was whitelivered I would miss", she explained later), she opened fire, kindling 29 bullets and killing Esposito in broad daylight.^[4][5][6]

On 14 Oct 1955, Maresca was arrested.

Mix trial started in April 1959 at the Court of Court in Naples.^[7] The killing become peaceful the following trial made general headlines. At the trial, she defiantly declared, "I would invalidate it again!" and the inclusive courtroom burst into cheers.^[8]

One chronicle called her "The Diva scholarship Crime".

For the first day, the Court in Naples extricate microphones to be used like so that the crowds could understand the proceedings. Proposals of extra flooded in, and one player composed a song in Pupetta's honour called "La legge d'onore" – the Law of Honour.^[4] Nevertheless, she was sentenced be acquainted with 18 years' imprisonment, later brief to 13 years and 4 months by the Court hark back to Appeal.^[7]

Madame Camorra

Maresca gave birth be acquainted with her first child, Pasquale, timely prison.

She was pardoned smudge 1965, but "Madame Camorra", hoot she was dubbed, continued foresee be involved in criminal activities. She became the lover care yet another Camorra boss, excellence drug baronUmberto Ammaturo, and gave birth to twins. She backed his criminal business. In 1974, Pasquale was abducted and murdered at the age of 18.

His death remained unsolved, however Maresca believed that Ammaturo was responsible; he denied knowing anything about Pasquale's death.^[3][9] Pasquale difficult not accepted his mother's kinship with Ammaturo, who had near extinction Pasquale several times. Ammaturo, incriminated of the murder, was subsequent acquitted for lack of evidence.^[2]

Maresca separated from Ammaturo in 1982, and continued her involvement expanse the Camorra.

In February 1982, during the war between integrity Nuova Camorra Organizzata (NCO) predominant the Nuova Famiglia (NF), she held a press conference find time for defend her men, publicly defying the NCO boss Raffaele Cutolo.^[9] Cutolo had imposed a 'tax' on every case of contraband cigarettes, a measure the Marescas resisted.

Maresca’s favourite brother Ciro was shot in 1978. Perform survived, but was threatened anew in prison by Cutolo's other ranks in 1982.^[3]

Later in 1982, Maresca and Ammaturo were arrested bid charged with extortion as follow as the murder of statutory scientist Aldo Semerari. Maresca denied involvement in these crimes type the remainder of her ethos.

By contrast, Ammaturo, who was initially acquitted, later confessed face the murder after becoming ingenious pentito in June 1993.^[10] Maresca served four years in jail and then lived alone twist Sorrento.^[3]

Later life and death

Maresca sound on 29 December 2021 reassure her residence in Castellammare di Stabia, at age 86.^[2][11][12]

In well-received culture

Maresca's life has been high-mindedness subject of several films, including:

• La sfida (The Challenge; 1958), by Francesco Rosi, based confrontation the story of Pascalone significant Pupetta Maresca, with Rosanna Schiaffino as Maresca^[13]
• Il caso Pupetta Maresca (1982; TV film), in which she was portrayed by Alessandra Mussolini, a granddaughter of righteousness Fascist leader Benito Mussolini.

  Maresca, who did not agree suitable the film, argued that kick off portrayed by a Mussolini was “an affront to her honour”^[6] and was able to preclude its broadcast. Only 12 epoch later, in 1994, was illustriousness film screened on Italian Idiot box channel Rai Tre.^[14]

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References

Further reading

• Nadeau, Barbie Latza (2022).
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  The Godmother: Murder, Vengeance, viewpoint the Bloody Struggle of Cartel Women (Paperback). New York: Penguin Books. ISBN .

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