Giancarlo Siani (;

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, September 19, 1959, - Naples, September 23, 1985) was an Italian crime reporter from Naples, who was killed by the

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, the Neapolitan mafia. He started to write in the magazine ''Osservatorio sulla camorra'', and later as a

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'', the principal newspaper of Naples. He was assigned to the local area editor of

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. He wrote articles about the links between organized crime, politicians and construction contracts. Siani was executed in his soft top

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on September 23, 1985, in Naples by the

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, while approaching his apartment. He was killed by an assassination squad of at least 2 men who approached from behind and shot him 10 times in the head with 7.65mm small arms fire from at least 2 Beretta pistols. The killers escaped on a motorcycle. At the time he was conducting an investigation of one of their leaders, Valentino Gionta. Gionta was the boss of the Gionta clan, a Camorra clan that was based in

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and controlled

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.The Siani Case
, website dedicated to the memory of Giancarlo Siani (access date April 6, 2010) On June 10, 1985, 3 months before his murder, Siani had revealed that the Valentino Gionta's arrest had been decided by Lorenzo Nuvoletta, head of the Nuvoletta clan, (an ally Camorra clan) to arrive in peace with Alfieri-Bardellino. 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, Valentino Gionta and Luigi Baccante were sentenced in absentia to life in prison for ordering the murder, as well as the material killers Gaetano Iacolare, Ferdinando Cataldo, Armando Del Core and Ciro Cappuccio.Camorra, arrestato l'assassino del giornalista Siani
La Repubblica, March 27, 2001
La Repubblica, May 17, 2001 In 2009, the movie '' Fortapàsc'' based on his life story was released, directed by

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. The title (pronounced "Fort-apash" in dialect) is a reference to

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's classic western, '' Fort Apache'', and the lawlessness of Camorra-ruled Naples.Fortapasc
review in Variety, May 5, 2009

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Giancarlo Siani: Un giornalista ucciso dalla camorra
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