Police arrest eight for involvement in mob murders Son of jailed superboss Schiavone among the suspects

Police on Tuesday arrested eight people suspected of involvement in two murders in 2009 during a mob war within a clan of Campania's Camorra mafia syndicate.

Among the people arrested in the province of Caserta was the oldest son of Francesco 'Sandokan' Schiavone, the jailed superboss of the notorious Casalesi clan.

Schiavone's son is suspected of organizing the murders of Clemente Prisco and Antonio Salzillo.

Schiavone, who has been in jail since 1998, featured in Roberto Saviano's 2006 expose' Gomorrah.

He is nicknamed Sandokan after Italy's most famous literary pirate.

He is one of the Casalesi bosses whose death threats against Saviano have forced the 32-year-old writer into round-the-clock police protection.