Gennaro De Angelis, one of the current leaders of the Casalesi. has been arrested for usury and extortion of two entrepreneurs from southern Lazio, the first operating in the restaurant sector and the second in the car trade.

“I'll shoot you, I'll cut your head and eat your guts. I'm going to jail but you won't see the light of the sun anymore". This was the content of one of the voice messages sent to one of the victims by Cristian Vento, a well-known tattoo artist from Roccasecca (Frosinone), with precedents in relation to the Casalesi and believed to be linked to Gennaro De Angelis,

Assets of 50 million euros were seized from Carmine Maisto, close to top members of the Mallardo clan. The entrepreneur's assets were found in the province of Latina, as well as in the provinces of Naples, Rome, Florence, Pisa and Venice. Maisto founded a dense entrepreneurial network in real estate companies, hotel structures, restaurants, villas, apartments, residential building complexes, supermarkets, stables, bathing establishments and other assets attributable to him.

25-year-old Luigi Puca, son of the boss currently detained Pasquale Puca called "o 'minorenne", historical head of the Puca clan active in the Neapolitan area, between Sant'Antimo and neighboring municipalities, was arrested by the Giugliano carabinieri

The Neapolitan Public Prosecutor's Office, together with a building contractor already in prison, Giuseppe D'Aponte, accuses him of extortion aggravated by the method and the mafia purposes against another builder in the area in serious economic difficulties, forced to deliver to the two checks and bills for over 50 thousand euros against an initial debt of just 11 thousand.

Money that D'Aponte had poured into the current account of the victim who, with authorization, had used them to settle slopes. A few days later, however, D'Aponte told the victim that it was not his money but that of the clan, which now demanded exorbitant interest. At this point, the victim reported everything to the police.

Italian police on Monday arrested nine people near Caserta on suspicion of drugs and arms trafficking and extortion for the Neapolitan Camorra mafia.

"You mustn't go there with a rifle but with a kalashnikov, that way you blow in his window with a single blast," alleged boss Salvatore D'Albenzio told an underling at Maddolini, according to a police wiretap.

D'Albenzio is the scion of a Camorra family for at least three generations.

Italy: Camorra mafia clan attempts comeback amid coronavirus

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Camorra, 16 arrests in Naples: the Polverino clan beheaded, accused of mafia-type association, association aimed at drug trafficking and fictitious header of goods. Among the suspects are Vincenzo Polverino , regent of the organization, and Michele Marchesano, with tasks of managing the immense real estate of the clan, respectively cousin and brother-in-law of the boss Giuseppe Polverino, top figures around which the faithful of the baron have gathered.

Camorra, arrested boss of the Cuccaro-Andolfi clan fugitive since 2019
May 29, 2020
The carabinieri of Naples arrested Ciro Imperatrice, a top member of the Cuccaro-Andolfi clan, with a stronghold in the Barra district of Naples, unavailable since October 2019, nicknamed Brutolino or Brodolino. The man is the recipient of an imprisonment order issued by the general prosecutor of Naples as he was sentenced to 2 years and 5 months of imprisonment for the crime of mafia-type criminal association. Imperatrice was traced in the first hours of dawn in a house in via Cupa Rubinacci. The military of the Arma found him hidden inside a closet of the bedroom where he slept. He is now in the Naples-Secondigliano prison.

Italian police on Wednesday arrested 26 people on suspicion of dealing drugs for the Naples-based Camorra. Those arrested allegedly bought cocaine, via brokers, from the 'Ndrangheta of Rosarno and Gioia Tauro, police said.
The D'Alessandro clan had claimed a monopoly over the drugs trade in a wide swathe of the Naples area including the entire Stabiese area (Castellammare di Stabia, Santa Maria La Carità, Vico Equense) and in the Sorrento peninsula and then, thanks to the strategic alliance with the Afeltra-Di Martino clan, also in the Lattari Mountains area.

FI Senator Cesaro probed in Camorra case, 3 brothers arrested
Lawmaker and siblings under investigation over alleged Mob-politics collusion

(ANSA) - Rome, June 9 - A Senator for Silvio Berlusconi's centre-right opposition Forza Italia (FI) party, Luigi Cesaro, was placed under investigation Tuesday and his three brothers arrested in a probe into the Neapolitan Camorra mafia and politics.
Antimo Cesaro was taken into detention in prison while Aniello and Raffaele Cesaro were placed under house arrest.
ROS security police served 59 arrest warrants across the Naples area in relation to the probe. Those arrested are accused of external complicity in mafia association.
Among those arrested are allegedly leading members of the Puca, Verde and Ranucci clans at Sant'Antimo north of Naples.
Police said they had uncovered a thick web of links between politicians, businessmen and criminal circles.
The four Cesaro brothers are suspected of colluding with Camorra members and Mob-linked businesmen, police said.


Camorra boss Cutolo's bid for house arrest rejected
Condition compatible with jail, COVID infection unlikely - court

(ANSA) - Rome, June 10 - A Bologna surveillance court on Wednesday rejected former Camorra boss Raffaele Cutolo's plea to be allowed out from prison to house arrest for health reasons.
The former charismatic leader of the Nuova Camorra Organizzata, 78, is serving multiple life terms for murder.
He will stay in jail at Parma under the harsh 41 bis regime for high-security inmates including top mafiosi.
According to the Bologna judges, his condition is not incompatible with prison detention and he does not run the risk of contracting COVID-19.
They also noted that he remains a "symbol" for the Naples Mob and has retained his charisma.
Justice Minister Alfonso Bonafede recently survived two no-confidence votes after hundreds of mafia bosses were released to house arrest for health reasons linked to the virus crisis.
He hastily passed decrees aimed at getting them back in jail and some have already returned from house arrest.

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Camorra, brother of the repentant killed on the street in San Giorgio a Cremano
June 16, 2020

Ambush in broad daylight against the brother of a repentant. Gunshots in the Neapolitan to kill Raffaele Gallo, 56, who was released from prison recently after spending sixteen years there.The victim was riding a scooter when the killers fired. At least eight shots. Six hit Gallo, who had a history of mafia crime and other crimes.
The target of the assassins was the brother of the repentant Giovanni, the man who accused a boss and some of his accomplices of a deadly ambush in 2011 in which Luigi Formicola (target of the command) were killed and the mechanic Vincenzo Liguori, father of the journalist of the Morning Mary, innocent victim of the Camorra hit in the heart by a stray bullet while he was repairing a scooter inside his workshop.

The Camorra commandos entered the crowd in the southern area of ​​Corso Vittorio Emanuele III in Torre Annunziata. Two men escaped death and the bullets hit a shop window and a parked car. The hit men fired despite terrified people who tried to find shelter in open businesses. The sequence of terror continues in Torre Annunziata now plunged back into a creeping Camorra war between emerging groups that is consumed by blows of stretches, ambushes and bombs.

Italian police on Tuesday arrested 28 people in a probe into the penetration of the Camorra's Senese clan into Rome's economic and business fabric.
Dawn raids were carried out in the provinces of Rome, Naples, Verona, Frosinone, and L'Aquila.
Over 200 police and finance guards took part in the operation.
Those arrested were accused of extortion, usury, fraudulent transfer of goods and assets, money laundering, and reusing ill-gotten gains.
Assets worth some 15 million euros were seized.
Police said they had "decapitated" the leadership of the Senese clan operating in the Italian capital.
They said the Camorra clan had been operating in Rome for many years.
Among those issued warrants were clan leader Michele Senese aka "O' pazz" (Crazy), currenty in jail for a 2001 murder; his brother Angelo Senese; his son Vincenzo; and his wife Raffaella Gaglione.
They are all accused of using mafia methods to help the Campanian mafia penetrate the Roman economy.
The Camorra is based in Campania, the region around Naples, but also operates elsewhere in Italy and abroad. (ANSA).

Antimo Giarnieri, 18, was shot dead in the town of Casoria (Naples); he was the brother of Vittorio Giarnieri, 27, reputed member of the Casalesi clan, arrested in 2019. Despite the young age of the victim, according to police it could be a Camorra-related ambush.

Camorra, the police chief: "A gangster mutation is underway in Naples"
Gabrielli comments on the alarm launched by the prefect Valentini in an interview with "Repubblica": "The disarticulation of the old criminal families has triggered anarchic forces"

July 15, 2020

"In the face of a significant disarticulation of some Camorra families, the loss of social control has left free a series of anarchoid forces, no longer responding to the logic of underworld families. In this context, the most youthful groups have given rise to the phenomenon of gangsterism which characterized and is characterizing the city and the hinterland in this period.
Obviously all this does not mean that the fight against the Camorra should not see the word end, but at this moment this violence which is a cause of great concern for citizens and is translated through the use of weapons, is something that questions us and pledges ". Police chief Franco Gabrielli said in reply - on the sidelines of the Ammaturo Prize in progress in the Neapolitan capital - to those who asked him to comment on the alarm launched on the 'Republic' of the prefect of Naples Marco Valentini on the spread of weapons among young people.

"A prefect never speaks in vain but for consolidated and acquired data - underlined Gabrielli - and as provincial safety authority he has the pulse of the situation. I believe that the city, like the whole country, is recovering after the lockdown and after a period of compression of the crime due to the fact that people were at home and that predatory crimes were difficult to carry out ".

"In this context - he added - as we had already noticed before Covid, in a country where blood crimes are increasingly marginal, the Neapolitan and Foggia realities have represented some exceptions in recent years in the sense that in spite of of the strongly compressed trend of other parts of the country, in the Neapolitan and Foggiano areas continued to shoot and die killed even if in smaller percentages. And this in the Neapolitan reality has had a gangsteristic mutation ".
"Therefore at this moment - he concluded - there is a particular attention to the phenomena of widespread crime, precisely because the lockdown period has led to a compression of the criminal phenomena and now these phenomena are resuming with a higher violence than the previous one".

Camorra-linked European forger gang busted
44 arrests, in Italy France and Belgium

(ANSAmed) - ROME, JUL 16 - Italian and French police on Thursday busted a Camorra-linked European forging gang.

Police said they had uncovered a "vast network" of counterfeiters linked to the Campanian mafia. They made 44 arrests, 40 of them in Italy and the remaining four in France and Belgium.

The operation was coordinated by Europol. Police seized some eight million euros in cash and another eight million in assets.

Salvatore Attanasio was stabbed to death in the neighborhood of Porta Nolana, he was charged with the murder of a member of the Mazzarella clan in 2011.

He was killed by 14 stab wounds.

It was February 2019 when Salvatore Attanasio was arrested by the Mobile Squad of Naples. The charge was of attempted murder. The 42-year-old is held responsible for the ambush against Vincenzo Maggio, father of the collaborator Salvatore.

The episode, known as the Halloween ambush (because it happened on October 31, 2011 and because the killer went into masked action), is remembered as the author of the raid missed the target. Three other people died and were injured.

Salvatore Attanasio was the son of Giuseppe Attanasio, killed in a Camorra attack in 1998.

Also two shootings in the Neapolitan area.

Andrea Attanasio and Marco Cozzolino, two nephews of the boss Ciro Formicola, were shot and seriously wounded in the neighborhood of Barra and Mario Dentice,a member of the Gallo clan, was shot and wounded in Torre Annunziata.

For some days the boss Raffaele Cutolo has been hospitalized in the Parma hospital in the ward for prisoners. The 79-year-old 'professor' of Ottaviano was urgently transferred from the prison infirmary for an aggravation of his condition, for a respiratory crisis and for a clinical picture that was unbalanced compared to other serious diseases such as diabetes. The news of Cutolo's transfer to the hospital, which appears today in the Neapolitan newspaper 'Il Mattino', was communicated only yesterday to the family members and to the lawyer of the boss detained under the 41 bis regime, the lawyer Gaetano Aufiero. "Even on the health conditions - says the lawyer - the news is very sparse and is transmitted late".
Raffaele Cutolo has been in several penitentiaries in his 42 years of imprisonment under the 41 bis regime. For some years he has been detained in Parma and from there on 19 February last, due to a respiratory crisis, he was urgently taken to hospital in Parma. He is diagnosed with bilateral pneumonia, which also worsens other conditions, such as diabetes and urinary tract dysfunction.

Camorra: under house arrest but ties to clan, Lady Zagaria taken
Boss sister Michele, reserved exit for escapes, secret visits
Through a private exit she could guarantee herself any escapes or receive "secret and forbidden" visits inside the house. This is how Elvira Zagaria, sister of the Casalesi boss Michele Zagaria, herself a prominent figure of the clan, violated house arrest in her luxurious villa in Boville Ernica, in the province of Frosinone, where she had lived since May 31, when she was released from prison. from the Messina prison. The woman was arrested and ended up in the Roman prison of Rebibbia.
The investigations revealed how Zagaria, in these months of staying in Boville Ernica, had met another member of the clan led by her brother Michele. T
Zagaria had been sentenced on March 28, 2019 with a second degree sentence of the Court of Appeal of Naples to the penalty of 7 years of imprisonment, for the crime of mafia-type association; she therefore ended up in Messina prison, then in May she obtained house arrest, but she had never broken ties with the clan, of which she was a top "manager" after the arrest of Michele and the other three brothers and death of her husband Francesco, who was in charge of finding contracts on behalf of the clan in public bodies, such as the Caserta hospital, dissolved a few years ago due to infiltration of the Zagaria clan.

Fatal crash in Secondigliano. Gaetano Todisco, known as “'o ninno”, considered close to the Di Lauro clan, died following a motorcycle accident. According to an initial reconstruction, the man was traveling along the Secondigliano road at high speed when his scooter crashed into some parked cars. It happened around two o'clock in the night between Wednesday and Thursday, near via Misteri di Parigi. The area of ​​the rione dei fiori also nicknamed "third world".
Todisco would have been very close to Marco Di Lauro .

Drugs from Holland to Naples, 14 arrests: among the suspects the owners of the Le Shabby Cafè bar
The Mobile Teams of Naples and Caserta have dismantled an organization dedicated to the trafficking of cocaine from Holland to Naples: it was managed by the Bonavolta family, linked to the Mazzarella clan and owner of the two "Le Shabby Cafè" bars, which were set on fire in 2017 and 2018.The Mazzarella cartel, one of the most powerful of the Naples Camorra, is involved in a vast drug trafficking from Holland.

The hands of the Camorra on the restaurants in Rome: 13 arrests, including clan leaders Angelo and Luigi Moccia
Thirteen arrests at dawn between Rome and Naples, affected the interests and economic penetration of the Moccia clan in the capital. Pre-trial detention order also for bosses Luigi and Angelo Moccia who invested the proceeds of the criminal activities of the Camorra organization in buildings and restaurants. The capital is one of the mafia's big dirty money washers.

A 28-year-old, Alessandro Riso, was shot and killed yesterday in an ambush on the northern outskirts of Naples, in the Miano district, in via Vittorio Veneto. The police investigate the murder. According to initial information, the victim is believed to be close to the Cifrone clan, one of the joints of the more famous Lo Russo clan, decimated by the arrests and repentance of bosses and affiliates.

A real bomb hits the Neapolitan Camorra. Marco Di Lauro would have dissociated himself from the Camorra. Dissociation which does not mean repentance, but which means a clean break with the past, that is, his will to have nothing more to do with the Camorra world. A way where Marco Di Lauro was born and raised, to become first the scion of the clan then the ruler and head set until his capture.

Marco Di Lauro was arrested on Saturday 2 March 2019 after fourteen years on the run. He is locked up in the Sassari prison under the harsh prison regime. A life sentence already hangs on him for the murder of the innocent Attilio Romano and several trials still pending.

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Riots in Napels against Covid meassures!

Roberto Saviano: "It is not just the Camorra, it is the desperation of the South that is exploding"
The writer: "Conte enjoyed a kind of untouchability, but now he is a leader who is not protecting us"

The Italian mafias are doing all they can to prevent coronavirus from harming their business — including orchestrating violence at anti-lockdown protests. The mob’s drugs trade was hit hard by lockdown restrictions, but economic chaos presents opportunities.

According to Italian authorities, the Camorra planned and directed demonstrations in Naples that descended into violence and attacks on police on Friday. Similar protests have taken place across the country for the past four days, with bar and restaurant owners expressing concerns that tighter measures, brought in by the government to counter a surge in coronavirus cases in the country, will destroy their businesses.

While the economic turmoil caused by the crisis has presented opportunities for the mafia to snap up stricken firms, curfews and lockdown restrictions are bad news, because increased police checks curtail the mob’s freedom to operate. Police estimate that with the closure of nightlife in Italy, the Camorra’s drugs revenue will be hit by as much as 60 percent.

"Almost all fruit and vegetables in Italy come from the Camorra"
During a visit to the seaside resort of Ostia, journalist Rick Nieman learns that almost all the fruit and vegetables eaten in Italy come from the Camorra (Neapolitan mafia).

“The Italian fruit and vegetable companies are all legal companies, but in the hands of different organized crime clans,” Augusto tells Rick. "You can just leave your car open here because the mafia does not steal cars. Selling fruit and vegetables is much more profitable because of the high turnover rate and low personnel costs."

"90% of the sellers are North Africans and they are the workers of the Camorra. The mafia has changed in recent years from a violent organization to a company operating in the upper world," said Augusto.

I wouldn't give that high % of control to Camorra only , sicilian mafia is huge in fruit business too.

New Clan Partenio, 14 arrests:
exchange vote for the boss's son

The suspects are considered seriously suspected, for various reasons, of several crimes, such as mafia-type criminal association, extortion, political-mafia electoral exchange, disturbed freedom of enchantments, material falsehood, fraud, fraudulent transfer of values ​​and money laundering.

From the investigative results, a context of expansion of the criminal interests of the Camorra group in the sectors of auctions and real estate acquisitions emerged, combined with a strong interest in influencing the political and administrative life of the city of Avellino.

The activity documented the promise of votes on the occasion of the elections of the Municipal Council of Avellino in June 2018 by members of the Genovese-Galdieri clan, against a candidate for councilor - later elected - son of an inmate boss, belonging to the same group, in exchange for the reassignment of the management of a sports center located in Avellino.

There is also the urban myth that the Camorra fixed the '87/88 season, when Napoli with Maradona lost the scudetto to Milan squandering a 5-point lead advantage over the team of Gullit and Van Basten.