Mothers' take on Camorra mafia over toxic waste 'triangle of death'
More than 15,000 mothers have taken on the Camorra, Italy’s most powerful mafia organization based in Naples over the spike in cancer cases caused by the organizations dumping of toxic waste near their homes and surrounding farm land.
The multi-billion Euro waste disposal industry has been a traditional favourite occupation for the mafia families but the dramatic rise in cancers linked directly to the illegal dumping of toxic carcinogenic waste has turned many women and mothers in the community against the Camorra which traditionally had large support in the community.
The row has turned the tradition mafia families away from the waste industry and send them towards ironically, Green industry, according to Europol, the EU police. Apparently, with generous grants and tax breaks offered by nearly every European nation, the green energy market is appealing to entrepreneurs across the continent and Italy’s organized crime groups”, the Police claim.
The EU's law enforcement agency said in a recent report that “the threat posed by the Italian Mafia is described as “unparalleled by any other European OCG" and they identified the Green industries and the EU subsidies as ripe for corruption and exploitation by the mafia.
They claim that not only is it a money-making venture but also, a very effective money laundering operation.
The toxic dumping has created the so called ‘Triangle of Death’ where the incidents of certain cancers are more than twice the rate of else where in Italy. Dr. Alfredo Mazz’s report in the Lancet a number of years ago, confirmed that the rates of bladder cancers and Leukaemia were twice the national rates after, he said, as the mafia surrounded Naples and other areas with toxic chemicals and pollutants for decades.
Previously, thousands of families have marched in Naples to protest against the Camorra in November as tests say that waste leakage contaminated demand a quick cleanup of toxic waste that has been dumped by the local Camorra crime syndicate for decades.
Recent tests have found that waste leakage has contaminated some water supplies, including in farm areas outside Naples which essentially meant that, as one former Camorra member told AP, that “the mobsters essentially poisoned their own neighbourhoods by illegally dumping and burying toxic waste.”
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