in this gang war there are plenty of collateral victims for instance there was one young man who chose to ally himself with the Bardellini clan and one evening he was sitting in his car in front of a doorway waiting for his uncle he was supposed to take his uncle somewhere he’s sitting in the car the car is parked with the driver’s side toward the sidewalk and the doorway his uncle is opening the passenger side door to get into the car just then a car comes racing up the street word had been given by one of the usual muschilli patrols the young man sees the car roaring toward him opens the door and lunges for the safety of the doorway the uncle is sitting in the car now he doesn’t even know what’s happening he’s slaughtered the car opens up with pistols submachine guns it’s like a shooting gallery that same evening I had gone to a party in a nearby town and when I got home with my friends we saw the aftermath lots of police and carabinieri we stop and get out of the car to see what’s happened and we see this car just devastated riddled with bullets inside is the mutilated corpse of this poor guy he was just a tailor he had nothing to do with these people he’d always been afraid of the clans he always did his best to steer clear of them and there were lots of other innocent people just like this uncle who were shot down in the streets in the clan wars

for instance there was the story of a boy a member of the Bardellini clan who was shot with dumdum bullets while he was sitting in the barber’s chair another young man was found dead in a torched car with two friends of his who had nothing to do with it in my town there is always this risk this danger you might be friends with somebody and without you knowing it that person joins the clan you stay friends with them you only see them now and then and it can be incredibly dangerous in the car along with the one clan member were two other boys who were just in the wrong place at the wrong time the killers took them all out into the countryside and staged an abbreviated trial and found this clan member guilty and these other two guys who had nothing to do with it had to watch so they couldn’t be left alive they killed the clan member immediately with two bullets in the head but they left the other two alive they locked them in the car and then set it on fire and when they found the charred corpses in the car the police determined that the clan member had been killed before his body was burned but the other two had burned to death there were no bullets in their bodies or anything