Overview
- Police and carabinieri executed an 800‑page GIP custody order and placed seven people in pretrial detention on Wednesday, September 9, 2026, as alleged mandanti in the 7 August 2019 killing of Fabrizio “Diabolik” Piscitelli.
- The suspects face charges that include murder aggravated by the mafia method, armed extortion, attempted murder and association for drug trafficking.
- Investigators identify Michele Senese as the 'mandante apicale', Leandro Bennato as the organizer who planned the ambush, and Alessandro Capriotti as the 'gancio' who lured Piscitelli to the Parco degli Acquedotti.
- Prosecutors say the motive was to punish Piscitelli for acting independently in the cocaine trade and to reassert the Senese clan’s control after a series of threats, shootings and vendettas between the Senese-linked group and an Albanian faction.
- The probe relies on intercepted calls, encrypted chats and other reconstructions in a GIP ordinance, but earlier court rulings — notably the appellate acquittal this year of the alleged shooter Raul Esteban Calderon — leave evidentiary and procedural questions for upcoming trials and heighten the risk of renewed violence and local fear.