Zagaria, boss of the Casalesi, returns free for the end of his sentence

• The boss Pasquale Zagaria returns to jail since April

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12 February 2021 The boss of the Casalesi clan, Pasquale Zagaria was scarce, rato and returned to freedom.

The Court of Cassation accepted the extraordinary appeal of the defense lawyers (Andrea Imperato, Angelo Raucci and Sergio Cola) and recalculated the sentence setting it in 19 years of imprisonment compared to the 22 years initially decided. 

Pasquale Zagaria, known as "Bin Laden", a leading exponent of the Camorra and brother of the chieftain Michele Zagaria known as "the Monaco", is considered the "economic mind" of the Casalesi.

He was held in harsh prison regime at 41bis in the Milano Opera prison since last September 22nd.

There he returned after 5 months of home care, granted at the beginning of the Coronavirus pandemic following a circular from the Dap-Department of the Penitentiary Administration.

The decision to house arrest for Zagaria had aroused much criticism. 

Three years in advance, the Casalesi boss returned to freedom also because, according to the defense, part of the years of sentence had already been served in October 2020. 

It was the surveillance judge of Sassari who released him from prison, the same one who then raised the question of constitutional legitimacy in relation to the decree of Minister Bonafede.

Zagaria has been suffering from a serious neoplasm for some time: in the first months of the Coronavirus pandemic, her lawyers asked for her release for health reasons.

The hospital of Sassari, which provided assistance to him, was no longer able to treat him precisely because of the health emergency.

By competence, the Sassari judges passed the file to the Brescia judges who granted Zagaria home detention in Brescia, for a period of five months.

When the needs ceased, the boss was returned to prison.

Now he is free.