Francesco Schiavone, former head of a very powerful Camorra clan, decided to collaborate with justice. In exchange, the criminal, sentenced to several life sentences, obtained to be placed under a less severe prison regime in the Aquila prison, in Abruzzo.
He was sentenced in 2010 to life imprisonment for six murders, including that of anti-mafia priest Giuseppe Diana, in 1994. For the president of the anti- mafia parliamentary commission, Chiara Colosimo, this new repentant represents “ yet another hard blow against organized crime ”