As for the "where was the Camorra" question, looking at how powerful and sophisticated the Camorra has become recently, that didn't happen overnight. It took decades. I can't imagine the Camorra not being a factor in Naples in the 1950s and 60s.
Very powerful men in those days. Antonio Esposito (left) and Pasquale Simonetti (right)
Simonetti is often claimed to have slapped Lucky Luciano in the face at the race track of Agnano; however, the actual perpetrator was Francesco Pirozzi, one of the men of Camorra boss Alfredo Maisto.
Esposito ordered the murder of Simonetti in 1955, as revenge his wife Pupetta Maresca drove to Naples with her younger brother, Ciro. When they met Esposito, she reached into her handbag and pulled out a Smith & Wesson .38. Holding it with both hands ("I was afraid I would miss", she explained later), she opened fire, firing 29 bullets and killing Esposito in broad daylight.
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