NAPLES – A group of five prison guards were dismissed after viral videos confirmed that they performed at the wedding of Tony Colombo and Tina Rispoli, reports Il Fatto Quotidiano.

  Tony Colombo reacted to the news on Jan. 21 through a facebook post. “What they did today to the musicians, who were prison officers and who played at my wedding is deplorable and shameful,” wrote the singer. “I will do everything to get their jobs back.”

   Those performing with The Music Band of the Corps, the official band from the Penitentiary Police and the oldest penitentiary training school in Italy, were said to have caused damage to the image of corps due to their fiduciary relationship. The President of the Union of Prison Police, Giuseppe Moretti, and the Campania secretary, Ciro Auricchio, said that this would “act as a warning for all members of the Prison Police Force.” 

   The marriage between Colombo, a Sicilian pop singer, and Rispoli, the widow of Gaetano Marino, an alleged Camorra boss imprisoned in Poggioreale between 2004 and 2005, took place last March 27. A few days after the wedding, trumpets from The Music Band of the Corps had been confiscated as a precautionary measure and an investigation was undertaken into the matter, according to Notiziedi.

   The ceremony was held in the Mascho Angioino, a medieval castle in Naples. On the day of the wedding, a flash mob blocked traffic on the Corso Secondigliano as part of the wedding’s procession, which involved a white horse-drawn carriage. The flash mob, along with the staging of a concert the day before the wedding in the Piazza del Plebiscito, drew the attention of the Neapolitan Public Prosecutor's Office, reported Notiziedi.

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