After the release of superboss Ciro Mariano the alleys of Naples tremble. The criminal situation in the Spanish Quarters is strictly controlled by the police, especially following the freedom of Enzo Romano who dominated the area with Ciro in the 1990s.
With the return to the streets of Ciro 'o Picuozzo' the district could relive days of tension.

40 arrests in maxi anti-drug operation against the Belforte clan in the early morning hours in the provinces of Caserta, Reggio Emilia, Mantua and Turin. The Carabinieri are executing 40 precautionary measures issued by the Court of Naples at the request of the local District Anti-Mafia Directorate, against subjects deemed responsible for trafficking in narcotics with the aggravating factor of the Mafia method.

Fugitive Marco Di Lauro, son of Paolo, at the top of the list of law enforcement agencies, is still a ghost. Many hypotheses about his hiding place, but as reported this morning by Il Mattino, a new hypothesis emerged from the investigators: Marco di Lauro could be in Dubai. He has no definitive sentence to life imprisonment. If he were arrested today, he would have to serve a little over eight years in prison, on the basis of a definitive sentence - the only one - for Camorra association and drugs.

In the course of the night in the Traiano quarter in Naples, Angelo Ranieri, 38, was gunned down, he was taken to the nearby San Paolo hospital but died shortly after due to the severity of the wounds.

Two Dutch Italians from a Groningen hospitality family are suspects in an Italian investigation into coke smuggling through a branch of the Camorra, the Neapolitan mafia. Stefano Bianco (31) in Italy is now serving a sentence for smuggling 7.5 kilos of cocaine.
The judge saw him as a courier for the Camorra and gave him eight years in prison. In November he was arrested at a petrol station just outside Rome. the cocaine was hidden in the dashboard of his Fiat Doblo.
He has not made a statement. He is detained in the Roman Rebibbia prison in a heavy department. His 35-year-old brother Raffaele is suspect in an ongoing investigation by the Italian carabinieri and the judiciary. The Bianco's are sons of the Groningen restaurant owner Luigi "Gigi" Bianco (62), he lives in the Netherlands for 42 years. He has three children and a Dutch woman. They have both Italian and Dutch nationality.

Camorra drug broker extradited to Italy. Pasquale Fiorente, aged 40 and resident in Torre Annunziata (NA), was arrested in Chile in 2016 on charges of international drug trafficking, aimed at exporting cocaine to Europe from Latin America.
According to the investigators, Fiorente would lead a "cartel " capable of connecting the major drug-producing countries such as Colombia and Mexico with Italy, creating a channel to supply all the main drug markets, linked to the main organized crime groups present in the peninsula, especially in Campania.

There is a "ghost" that wanders in the area of ​​Case Nuove al Mercato and that fires on a large-displacement scooter holding two machine guns. It looks like a scene from a movie, but it is what is reported on the pages of The Vesuvian a Fact. According to what was rebuilt, the man, belonging to the so-called "santisti" of Raffaele Cutolo, and after having served in prison his debt with justice by Camorra association, would be trying to climb positions in the neighborhood. The ghost, or rather "the killer" would usually shoot very often in the middle of the night. Spread to demonstrate power.

Ambush against the son of the boss Mazzarella in front of a bar, injured a client. The clan men are unharmed. In front of the Hollywood Cafè there were some people, including Salvatore Mazzarella, son of the boss Renato, at the top of one of the most powerful clans in the capital of Campania. Two, with their faces covered in helmets, aboard a scooter, arrived and started shooting at the group. The son of the capoclan and the others took refuge in the bar. The passenger went down and continued to shoot at the business, shattering the window. A sliver of glass hurt one of the customers, other bullets stuck inside a Smart parked outside.

In San Cipriano d'Aversa (Caserta), the carabinieri of Casal di Principe on Friday have intercepted and blocked, after a brief chase, a Fiat Panda with on board - seated on the passenger side - the fugitive Corrado De Luca, 51, sought after by last May because accused of mafia-type association, extortion, private violence aggravated by having facilitated a mafia association. The fugitive, historically affiliated to the Iovine faction of the Casalesi clan, now held in the orbit of the Schiavone faction of the same clan, had escaped capture in an operation taken on May 7 that led to the arrest of another 6 people for the same crimes of which De Luca is accused. The driver of the car, Giovanni Lucariello, was also arrested.

Beatrice Zagaria, 62, sister of the Casalesi boss Michele Zagaria, has been send to prison. Two days ago, in fact, the Court of Naples sentenced her to 6 years and 8 months of imprisonment for mafia-type criminal association: according to the judges, the woman, for a long time, collected and distributed to her brothers and sisters, free and detainees, and to people close to the clan, part of the proceeds deriving from the Casalesi cash desk.

The Camorra raised its head: 182 clans and over 4 thousand affiliates
Data in the six-monthly report of the Anti-Mafia Investigation Directorate
by Fabio Postiglione

The Neapolitan Camorra has an army of boys ready to do anything to conquer an alley, a square and an entire district. "Nighttime excursions, shootings, patrolling the territory," as in a war. Impressive numbers that the Anti-Mafia Investigation Directorate has enclosed in the semi-annual report sent to Parliament, which photographs the state of organized crime throughout Italy.

And Naples, with its province, beats every possible record: number of arrests, seizures, investigative initiatives, inspections, investigations. There are 182 clans, 100 of which only in the city and over 4 thousand between bosses and affiliates. "We are witnessing the fragmentation of organized crime" typical of the city center that registers districts with hardly beatable records. They are the ones with the greatest presence and Camorra infiltration with respect to the population density. Between the Quartieri Spagnoli and the Sanità district, passing through Forcella and the Decumani, there are 26 Camorra groups, more or less aggressive, which are opposed to the search for space to do business. But changing the area does not change the numbers. Between Secondigliano and Scampia there are 11 clans that divide the millionaire collections of drug trafficking. A total and devastating fragmentation of the Neapolitan camorra that recruits young and very young among their ranks to do business. "There is a generational discomfort that affects young people, for whom the criminal models proposed by the clan continue to exert a strong attraction, representing an easy tool for the conquest of power and wealth. Precisely these young people represent an inexhaustible catchment area for criminal organizations, where they recruit manpower to be used for drug dealing, extortion and, in some cases, even for the consumption of homicides. representing an easy tool for the conquest of power and wealth.

To this plethora of aspiring camorristi, is added the ranks of boys who belong to mafia families and are started, by the same parents, to criminal activities, still children, "writes Dia. In the province the fracture of the big gangs that took place in Naples has not registered in a striking way and so rooted in the territory continue to do business in total silence, strong of a large chunk of people who do not report. The Moccia in Afragola, the Mallardo in Giugliano, the Polverino in Marano, the Amato-Pagano in Melito.

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Wow..Nicola Schiavone turned State witness, Nicola is a son of Francesco "Sandokan" Schiavone. Having been the head of the clan for a decade after the arrest of his father, Nicola Schiavone knows many secrets about the clan's business dealings and its riches.

Italy: the Baby Bosses of Camorra
ARTE Reportage

https://www.arte.tv/en/videos/071610-000-A/italy-the-baby-bosses-of-camorra/

Walter Schiavone follows his brother! The other brothers, Ivanhoe, Emanuele Libero and Carmine have instead rejected the possibility of relying on the protective wing of the State.The repentance of Nicola Schiavone, created a real earthquake in the Casalesi clan and in particular in the boss family.

Even in prison for many years the super boss Mario Fabbrocino would maintain close ties with powerful clans of Naples.Fabbrocino is one of the promoters of the so-called Nuova Famiglia, the criminal organization born at the end of the 70s in antithesis to the NCO of Raffaele Cutolo. He is also a cousin of Carmine Alfieri the most important camorra turncoat. The latest wars in Naples and in the province between baby gangs and old families could entice old rags of the caliber of Fabbrocino to reconstitute the pyramid of the Nuova Famiglia, thus monopolizing the control of illicit affairs on a large part not only of the Neapolitan hinterland but of the whole Region.

Pietro La Torre, an 88-year-old uncle of Augusto La Torre, considered by the investigators to be one of the leaders of the Caserta Camorra and known as the "psychologist boss" for having obtained his degree in prison, commits suicide. The incident occurred in Mondragone, a town in the Caserta coast where the La Torre live. The elder, prejudiced for crimes of Camorra and considered organic to the clan founded by his brother Tiberio, father of Augusto, shot himself in his house in via San Francesco d'Assisi with a Beretta. Pietro La Torre was arrested the last time in 2015 together with his son Luciano for the crime of wear and tear, an autopsy will be performed on the body of the 88-year-old who seems to suffer from depression.

Aberdeen gangster Antonio La Torre arrested again in Italy.

https://www.sundaypost.com/fp/guns-...g-aberdeen-mafia-boss-arrested-in-italy/

Anti-mafia operation of the Carabinieri in Fondi in central Italy, the Camorra controlled the fruit and vegetable market, the investigation unveiled the D'Alterio family system. D'Alterio family has deep-rooted links with the Camorra clans from Caserta. In particular, the investigations have made it possible to ascertain that the family group headed by Giuseppe D'Alterio aka "Peppe the Moroccan" exercised an intimidating power of the mafia type in order to monopolize transport and also imposing its own "Tax" for the movements carried out by the other companies. The 62-year-old native of Minturno and the two sons, the 38 year old Luigi and the 35 year old Armando are now in prison.

This morning the news of a night of fear took place in the Neapolitan area between Frattamaggiore and Afragola . In the night, around 2 o'clock, a powerful explosion destroyed the window of the restaurant "Eat to Eat" which is located along the Provincial Road, a roar so strong that it would also be felt in the adjacent municipalities. According to today's edition of Il Mattino , before the night explosion occurred an armed raid against a mobile phone shop in Afragola. At the moment the two criminal actions have not been linked, but could be traced to a single direction that manages extortion and racket in the territory.

On this day in 1985 the Camorra killed the journalist Giancarlo Siani

On September 23, 1985, the journalist Giancarlo Siani was killed in Naples. "Mattino" chronicler Siani had denounced the commingling between organized crime and local politics and the Camorra infiltration in contracts for reconstruction after the 1980 Irpinia earthquake. It took over 10 years to capture his killers.

Terrorist tried to buy kalashnikovs off mafia (2)
Mobster said he 'didn't want to give those people the weapons'

(ANSA) - Naples, September 26 - A Tunisian sentenced to eight years for Islamist terrorism had tried unsuccessfully to buy five kalashnikov rifles from a former member of the notorious Casalesi clan of the Campanian Camorra mafia, judges said in their June sentence which was published Wednesday.
Mohamed Kamel Edine Khemiri didn't get the arms because, as mafioso Salvatore Orabona told judges, "I didn't want to give the weapons to those people".
Orabona has since become a state's witness and informant on the Casalesi, the ruthless clan who have forced Gomorrah writer Roberto Saviano into a police protection programme.

Extreme tattoos of the Camorra

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Raffaele Perinelli, amateur football player, died at the hospital in Naples at 21 after being stabbed during a fight. Raffaele was the son of a Camorrista, killed in an ambush in June 2003, but he had not followed in his father's footsteps. For himself he dreamed of a normal life, or rather a footballer's future.

Italy: 14 Camorra Members Arrested for Drug Dealing

https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/8718-italy-14-camorra-members-arrested-for-drug-dealing

Camorra ambush in Tirana. Sentenced to life imprisonment Salvatore Letizia
The decision of the Albanian judges

MARCIANISE - The Court of Tirana has sentenced to life imprisonment Salvatore Letizia , 38, originally from Santa Maria Capua Vetere.

It is an exponent of the Quaqquaroni, considered, therefore, linked to the Camorra and material executor of the crime of murder.

Letizia was found guilty of taking part on May 28, 2015, to an ambush against an Albanian criminal group ending with three deaths, including Mentor Lufi. The Albanian Besnik Sulku, the man who had hired the Italian killer affiliated to the Camorra organization of the Piccolo di Marcianise.

Salvatore Letizia is related to the man considered the regent of the Piccolo clan in Marcianise.

Camorra and drugs, maxi blitz in progress: 50 arrests throughout Campania !
In the operation, in Naples, Avellino and Caserta, 300 carabinieri are engaged.
The recipients are suspected of belonging to several Camorra clans , and - according to the investigators - responsible for various purposes of association aimed at the illicit trafficking of drugs and possession for the purpose of drug dealing.

Italy: Naples Arrests 72 Suspected Mafiosi for Drug Dealing

Hundreds of officers of Italy’s military police force arrested 72 alleged Naples mafia members who are suspected of having sold cocaine all over the Naples area, mainly near churches, schools and arcades, Napoli Today reported on Monday.

Prosecutors say the suspects belong to various clans of the Napoli-based Camorra and were involved in the production, trafficking, possession and sale of drugs — mostly cocaine and its crystal form crack.

The detention warrants for “Operation Whitestone” were issued by the court of Naples at the request of the local antimafia prosecutor’s office and carried out in Naples and the nearby provinces of Avellino and Caserta.

Following the demise of the Fava clan in 2013, various crime groups from around Naples started taking over drug-dealing areas that were up for grabs.

The drug hotspots were near churches, schools, main squares, town halls, recreational clubs and arcades, Caserta News reported.

The investigation into the drug organizations, clans, and subgroups started in February 2015 and took two years to complete, using turncoats, telephone taps and spy cameras.

A central event in the investigation was a “punitive assignment” against one of the suspects who was accused by his associates of having kept a large amount of drugs for himself.

While the retaliation had been planned in full detail, prominent members of the Vollaro clan from Naples’ Vesuvius area intervened and the mafioso was spared.

The wiretapped phone conversations show a complex code language and wide array of nicknames to prevent identification such as “la Signora,” “the Viking,” “the Mexican,” "the Surveyor,” “Diablo” and “Pistola.”

When referring to drugs, the suspects used culinary terms — including Napolitan specialties — such as aperitivo, pastiera, sfogliatelle, oranges and grappa barricata.

In order to request drugs, the dealers would ask to “set the table,” "prepare the crib,” or “put on children’s shoes” and when discussing the quality and quantity of drugs, the mafiosi talked about “10 euro stamps,” the “A series,” “the fireplace being good,” and “how many guests to bring.”

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In Caserta a man was shot dead in a car. Nicola Picone, 26 years old, would be affiliated to the Casalesi clan.
As reported by Il Mattino, he is a loyalist of the son of Sandokan, Carmine, detained since 1998. The Carabinieri of Aversa intervened after being informed by the owners of the distributor Agip that, at the opening, they noticed the car parked and the corpse inside.
The investigation is coordinated by the DDA of Naples.
The Neapolitan newspaper speculates that behind the murder there is a strong tension in the criminal board of Agro-Aversano, also due to the recent repentance of one of the sons of the boss Sandokan, the first son Nicola Schiavone.
There are other reasons for friction: from the release of several affiliates to the various factions of the Casalesi clan. But it is early to establish whether the murder is the preamble of a new Camorra war in the Casertano.

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