They kill a mafia camp in New York as in the good old days of vendettas

NEW YORK-. Thirty-four years later,

New York

This was once again the site of a mafia movie scene. The last victim was Paul Castellano on the orders of John Gotti in 1985.

Last night, it was Francesco "Frank" Cali, presumed head of the Gambino family and deeply attached to the Sicilian mafia. He was shot in front of his home in New York while his family was inside the state, New York police said.

Cali, who was supposed to be the head of the Gambino family since 2015, received "multiple injuries to his chest" in front of his home in the affluent Todt Hill neighborhood of Staten Island, police said. emergency call. In addition, according to witnesses who were near the scene of the crime after being shot, Cali was then hit by a blue van in which the suspects fled.

Frank Cali, 53, has been involved in the mafia since very young.
In 2008, he was arrested after a heavy blow by the authorities to organized crime in New York and Sicily. The operation resulted in the arrest of 77 people on both sides of the Atlantic, including leaders of the Italo-American Gambino and Inzerillo clans.

According to the New York press, Cali took over the Gambino family in 2015, replacing Domenico Cefalu.

The Gambino family is one of five historic families of the Italian mafia in New York, alongside the Genovese, Lucchese, Colombo and Bonanno.

With information from the AFP agency