but the new municipal elections in Casale di Principe were never held because it was decided that since the town government was obviously under clan control it could not be run by a normally elected municipal council and so the town government was turned over to a prefectorial commissioner and the same thing happened in a neighboring township that was also under clan control the town council was dissolved and prefectorial commissioners arrived and held new elections but two or three months later the mayor who was in a wheelchair by this point because he had been shot in the back and his legs were paralyzed decided to dissolve the municipal council because of conflicts within the majority and so for more than seven years the town simply had no town council and it proved to be impossible to put together a single alliance with the courage to run for office in those years aside from the town council in my town the prefect dissolved twelve other town councils in the Casale di Principe province because they had been infiltrated by the clan Casapesenna Mondragone Recale Cesa Grazzanise Villa di Briano Santa Maria La Fossa Lusciano Carinaro Frignano and Teverola

the clan preferred this situation in part because the presence of the prefectorial commissioner made it possible to solve certain administrative problems for example town councils were required to issue a zoning plan regulating construction but they understood that to do so would mean either demolishing or condemning a great number of houses that had been built in violation of standards and restrictions because the clan built houses everywhere and it appeared that throughout the district there were far more houses than there should be considering the number of inhabitants for example while he was mayor Ernesto Bardellino had ordered the construction of many houses on the outskirts of the town in the so-called zona infetta or infected zone and he had even moved the offices of the town government out there to a building that he owned so the town government paid rent to the mayor likewise the offices of the carabinieri of Casale di Principe were located in a building owned by the local clan

after a first attempt to eliminate Enzo De Falco also known as Enzo the Fugitive in an ambush that proved unsuccessful Sandokan invited him to a meeting where he planned to kill him but instead of the boss the carabinieri showed up for the meeting and arrested Sandokan who was however quickly released but at this point despite the Fugitive’s vain attempts to claim he hadn’t informed to the police his fate was sealed and a few weeks later Enzo was found dead riddled with bullets in the meanwhile Mario Iovine was traveling extensively overseas to keep an eye on his cocaine traffic under cover of a fish meal business between Latin America and Europe and while he was in Portugal he traveled alone since a bloodthirsty killer like him felt no need for bodyguards or an entourage and so the day that they killed him he had walked out unsuspecting from his house in Cascais to make a call from a phone booth and while he was dialing the number a car slowed to a halt next to the phone booth and a machine gun opened fire and bullets tore into Mario Iovine then a second car stopped and a man got out shot him with a pistol in the head to finish him off the colpo di grazia