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Two gunmen on a motor scooter shot and killed the parents of a Mafia turncoat Wednesday as the couple drove down a street in a Naples suburb, news reports said.
Maria Rosaria Abbate, 48, was shot in the head and died on the way to a hospital, the reports said. Her husband, Raffaele Ciotola, 54, tried to run away, but the assailants shot him twice from behind. Police said the shooting was typical “Camorra execution style.” The Camorra organized crime syndicate controls drug-trafficking, prostitution, extortion and other lucrative rackets around Naples in southern Italy.
The couple’s 28-year-old son, Mario Ciotola, was a former gangster who betrayed the Camorra clan by becoming a government informant.
