Giancarlo Siani

Giancarlo Siani (September 19, 1959 - September 23, 1985) was a a crime reporter from Naples, who was killed by the Camorra, the Neapolitan crime organization.

He started to write in the magazine "Osservatorio sulla camorra", and later as a stringer for "Il Mattino", the principal newspaper of Naples. He was assigned to the local area editor of Castellammare di Stabia. He wrote articles about the links between organized crime, politicians and construction contracts.

Siani was killed in September 23, 1985, by the Camorra, following an investigation about their leader Valentino Gionta. Gionta was the boss of the camorra in Torre Annunziata and controlled cigarette smuggling.

On June 10, 1985, three months before he was killed, Siani had revealed that the arrest of Valentino Gionta had been decided by Lorenzo Nuvoletta, head of a rival Camorra clan. Siani was preparing a dossier on the Torre Annunziata massacre in August 1984, which left eight people killed and 24 wounded among the Gionta clan, allied with the Nuvolettas at the time. After the massacre tensions between the two clans had increased.

In 2000, Angelo Nuvoletta and Luigi Baccante were sentenced in absentia to life in prison for ordering the murder, as well as the material killers.it icon [http://www.repubblica.it/online/cronaca/nuvoletta/nuvoletta/nuvoletta.html Arrestato Nuvoletta boss della camorra] , La Repubblica, May 17, 2001]

In 2003, a film based on his life story, Giancarlo Siani, was released directed by Marco Risi.

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* [http://www.giancarlosiani.it/en.html Giancarlo Siani]
*it icon [http://www.lastoriasiamonoi.rai.it/puntata.aspx?id=390 Giancarlo Siani: Un giornalista ucciso dalla camorra]