Glossary of the Camorra



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[A]

affiliate

m. 'who joins the organization of the Camorra; who is registered in the organization of the Camorra '

G 55 «for every Sicilian affiliate there are five from Campania».

G 256 "Mario Santoro instead accepted, but with the company of Giuseppe Dell Medaglia, affiliated with the Ranucci clan of Sant'Antimo".

G 266 «A center organized in a villa seized from an affiliate of the Casalesi clan, Egidio Coppola».

it. affiliate 'who is a member of an association, company or sim.'

GRADIT sv affiliate § 2nd word of the common lexicon.



agent

m. 'who deals with commercial affairs on behalf of the Camorra clans'

G 61 "Gala prided himself on his quality as an agent."

G 63 "Pensioners, office workers, small entrepreneurs gave money to some agents who then reinvested it for the purchase of drug consignments."

it. agent 'who deals with business and stipulates contracts on behalf of third parties'

GRADIT sv agent § 2 word of the technical-specialist lexicon dir. comm.



alliance

f. 'federative structure of Camorra clans; union of several Camorra families'

G 50 "the clans belonging to the Secondigliano Alliance were part of the Directory".

it. alliance 'union, coalition between several people, groups or parties, for the achievement of common purposes'

GRADIT sv alliance § 2 word of the highly used lexicon.



ally

m. 'who is bound by an alliance to the Camorra clans'

G 79 "it is necessary to be introduced by affiliates and allies to the clan".

G 93 "Only afterwards will the parties, the allies, the enemies be created around them".

it. ally 'who is united by a covenant pact'

GRADIT sv ally § 2nd word of the common lexicon.



pineapples

m. pl. 'grenades'

G 117 «Nervous, tense, and with a character who had" pineapples "around his neck. The pineapples are the hand grenades that the men of the paranze carry on them ».

G 117 "Pikachu said there was a basket near a window, full of pineapples."

Ferrero s.v. pineapple 'hand grenade with disruptive scales, in the jargon of the Italian-American mafia'.

GRADIT sv ananasso § 1a [from 1980] word of the technical-specialist lexicon arm. 'grenade'.



agency

f. 'economic body made up of the various businesses that a Camorra family deals with'

G 69 "But in Secondigliano the huge Di Lauro company was creaking."

G 55 "Raffaele Cutolo's New Organized Camorra of the 1980s was a sort of huge company, a centralized agglomeration".

G 57 "The companies of the clans have certain regulatory plans, they have infiltrated the ASLs".

G 72 «The Di Lauro clan has always been a perfectly organized enterprise. The boss structured it with a multilevel company design ».

it. company 'group of people and goods organized to achieve an economic goal by carrying out various kinds of activities'

GRADIT sv company § 1 word of the high availability lexicon.




[B]

baby-drug dealer

m. (English + it.) 'child who sells drugs on behalf of the Camorra clans'

G 119 "The groups of baby-drug dealers are fundamental in the flexible economy of the drugstore because they are less conspicuous, they sell drugs between a shot of the ball and a ride on a moped and often go directly to the customer's home"

GRADIT sv baby-drug dealer [from 1989 in “La Repubblica”] word of the common lexicon 'child used to sell drugs because not punishable given his very young age'.



band

f. 'more or less numerous group of people, belonging to a Camorra clan, who form a league to oppose other opposing clan groups'.

G 105 "They say that the Camorra war is between gangs, who kill each other"

Ferrero s.v. band: slang voice band 'brigade, company of friends'

GRADIT sv banda 1 § 3rd word of the lexicon of high use 'organized group of criminals'



fire battery

f. 'group of armed people, affiliated with the Camorra clans, set up for the purpose of committing crimes'

G 213 "his brother Walter coordinated the fire batteries".

G 224 «The Bidognetti have powerful fire batteries».

G. 225 "The batteries of fire were getting ready and the carabinieri were ready to collect the bodies of the slaughter".

Ferrero s.v. battery of fire 'organized group, gang of thieves. The Camorra also uses paranza with the same meaning '

it. battery 'artillery unit consisting of four or more guns and the means and men necessary to make it operational'.

GRADIT s.v. battery word of the technical lexicon - specialist milit.

it. fire 'dense net of gunfire'

GRADIT s.v. fire § 7 word of the common lexicon.



boss

inv. (engl.) 'who exercises ample power of control over the activities of the Camorra and a certain authority over the persons belonging to it.

G 50 «a boss from Secondigliano had been hired in a clothing store».

G 58 "Gennaro Licciardi, ? ? in scigna ?: he was the first boss who brought about the metamorphosis of Secondigliano".

G 267 "The boss directly delivered the vhs of the film to his architect, according to the village."

G 267 "This seems to me to be one of those stories that decorate the rise to power of every boss, an aura that mixes with legend, with real metropolitan myths"

Ferrero sv boxwood 'master; chief, principal, in the jargon of the Italian-Americans of the Center-South; from English boss'

GRADIT s.v. boss [since 1913; from English boss 1822] word of the common lexicon 'leader of a gang of criminals'.




[C]

Camorra

f. 'association of the Neapolitan underworld'

G 48 "Camorra is a non-existent word for a cop".

G 55 "Despite the restructuring of the clans, the Camorra is the largest criminal organization in Europe by number of affiliates".

G 99 "The Camorra of the past is always better than what it is now or what it will be".

G 135 "The Camorra killed more than anyone".

G 136 "From everywhere, all of a sudden the Camorra had returned to exist in the region where it was believed that there were now only gangs and snatchers".

G 159 "But the Camorra is not an independentist organization, an armed nucleus, and its weapons are not its real power."

G 182 "The Camorra has a very long memory and capable of infinite patience".

G 245 "The Camorra today is a form of terrorism that inspires fear, imposes its laws and tries to become an endemic component in Campania society"

D'Ambra sv Camorra 'sect, gang of oppressors, buriassi, thieves, who demand arbitrary bounties and taxes in their name in prisons, soldiers' quarters, gambling houses, and markets with reduced traffic in rural and urban industries'.

Andreoli sv Camorra 'known sect of criminals; the gain or the part of the Camorra '.

Ferrero s.v. camorra 'a secret criminal association founded in Naples, and widespread especially since the nineteenth century'.

D'Ascoli sv camorra 'camorra, a secret association with its own laws, which derives favors and gains from criminal acts; the gain of the Camorra '.

GRADIT s.v. camorra § 1a [since 1861] word of the common lexicon 'criminal organization of a mafia type, established with its own laws and codes already during the 1600s, and which currently exercises control over illegal activities spec. in the Neapolitan area '.



Camorra

m. 'who belongs to the Camorra'

G 96 "if you play the Camorra, here's what happens to you".

G 98 "He will have gone to some Camorra friend, will have been introduced and then will have started to work for Di Lauro"

G 113 "That Camorrista had taken so many that the body was overturned."

G 294 "He had managed to become a man of true power, a Camorra".

Ferrero s.v. camorrista 'a compound of convict, thief, stabber, vagabond and proletarian'.

GRADIT s.v. camorrista [1861] word of the common lexicon 'who belongs to the Camorra'.



charismatic leader

m. 'person who directs, who is placed in command of a Camorra faction'.

G 140 "Amato was the charismatic leader of the Spaniards".

it. boss who directs the business of other people; exercising a directive function, a command, an authority '

GRADIT s.v. chapter § 2nd word of the fundamental lexicon.

charismatic 'based on a strong personal charisma'

GRADIT s.v. charismatic § 2 word of the common lexicon , adj.



square head

m. 'member of the Camorra clan that coordinates and manages drug dealing activities'.

G 73 "The third level is represented by the foremen".

G 149 "The carabinieri intercepted a text message that a girl sent to a very young cop who was arrested during the period of the feud and returned to deal as soon as he got out of jail".

it. piazza 'place where economic, financial or commercial transactions take place'

GRADIT sv piazza § 6th word of the technical-specialist lexicon.



head of the area

m. 'who directs and controls the activities of a specific territory which is under the authority of a Camorra clan'

G 88 "Bizzarro had ceased to be a diligent head of the Di Lauro area".

G 104 "In a wiretapping, Rosario Fusco, accused of being an area leader of the Di Lauro, has a very tense voice and tries to be convincing by addressing his son".

G 207 "Each with its own area manager, each part of the Casalesi network".

GRADIT s.v. capozona [from 1982 in “Il Corriere della Sera”] word of the common lexicon 'who directs the activities, services and sim. in an area, also with reference to organized crime activities'.



candy

f. 'ecstasy tablet'.

G 77 “Heroin, kobret, soft drugs and then pills, what some still call ecstasy when in reality there are one hundred and seventy-nine variants of ecstasy. Here in Secondigliano they are super-sold, they call them X rows, or the token or the candy ».

Ferrero sv candy cocaine; adaptation of an entry from American slang '

it. candy 'large tablet made with variously colored and flavored cooked sugar'

GRADIT s.v. candy § 1 word of the highly used lexicon.



sign

m. ' league, union of several Camorra families'

G 50 «the Camorra cartel that gathered several families».

G 214 "Sandokan became the emblem of the victory of his cartel over the other families".

G 214 «The entire economic power of the family cartel».

G 218 "The largest trial against a criminal cartel by number of defendants and proposed sentences had been completely unknown to the media."

G 260 "He had set up a powerful criminal cartel together with men from the ? ndrangheta and some stragglers from the Cosa Nostra."

it. cartel 'alliance, coalition of groups or organizations pursuing a common goal'.

GRADIT s.v. cartel 1 § 2 [from 1697] word of the common lexicon.



cashier

m. 'who collects, on behalf of a Camorra clan, the sums of money collected by drug dealers'

G 76 "five hundred to the coordinator and cashier of the drug dealers".

G 230 "He was arrested years ago for a Camorra association, accused of being the cashier of the Casalesi clan, the prosecution proposed a sentence of eight years of imprisonment for 416 bis".

it. cashier 'in a bank or company, whoever has the cash delivery and is responsible for it'

GRADIT s.v. high use lexicon word cashier .



cavallaro

m. 'who takes care of the relations of a Camorra family with the outside world, the official spokesperson'.

G 72 «The“ cavallaro ”does not send, Giovanni Cortese the official spokesperson, the one who has always looked after the relations of the Di Lauro family with the outside world».

it. cavallaio 'messenger who delivered on horseback the citations of the courts', dial. and reg. cavallaro .



stumps

m. pl. 'term used by the Camorra to define a type of handcuffs'.

G 143 «Paolo Di Lauro was in jeans and a dark polo shirt. At the foot the Paciotti, the shoes that all the leaders of the clans in these parts wear. The guards freed his wrists by removing the shackles and handcuffs ».

it. stumps ' large wooden tools with which once the feet of prisoners were blocked; chains'

GRADIT s.v. log § 7 word of the common lexicon.





chiachiello

m. (nap.) 'who is not affiliated with the Camorra'.

G 136 «They look at you from the big toe to the forehead to try to weigh your specific weight and guess if you are a chat or a good one . A failure or a Camorrista ».

nap. he chattered 'Weak man, of little spirit. Disabled, inept '( D'Ambra, Andreoli, D'Ascoli sv chiachiello ).



clan

inv. (English) 'closed and exclusive group of people who are part of the organization of the Camorra'.

G 60 "The clan has always been particularly vengeful."

G 72 "The Di Lauro clan has always been a perfectly organized enterprise ".

G 92 "A freedom that of the Di Lauro clan is granted and cannot be expected to possess".

G 48 "The criminal organization coincides directly with the economy, the commercial dialectic is the backbone of the clan".

G 98 "And then if you need to remove the curtains because the carabinieri are catching you, the clan pays you a month in northern Italy or abroad".

GRADIT s.v. clan § 2 [from 1915] word of the highly used lexicon 'restricted group, closed community, with negative nuance, clique, coterie'.



colonel

m. 'higher rank of Camorra affiliates; who is inferior only to the boss regent '.

G 132 "a colonel from Di Lauro, one of those who had turned against him".

it. colonel 'among the senior officers of the army, air force and armed forces of the state, the intermediate rank between ten. colon. and the general '

GRADIT sv word colonel of the technical-specialist lexicon, milit.



commando

inv. (engl.) 'group of armed people, belonging to Camorra clans , who act by surprise for criminal purposes'

G 225 "Then the commando had chased them in the street and started firing about ten shots."

it. commando 'assault patrol specializing in surprise actions'

GRADIT s.v. commando word of the common lexicon.



appears

m. 'householder or affiliate of the Camorra'.

G 273 "the term used to indicate a householder or an affiliate has always been appear".

G 46 "While we were eating he got up to go and greet some of his friends."

it. appears 'partner, accomplice in dishonest or unclean actions'.

GRADIT s.v. appears § 2 [from the 13th century] word of the common lexicon.

Nap. 'those who hold baptism or confirmation, but also godchildren, relatives ” D'Ambra, Andreoli, D'Ascoli.



confederation

f. 'union of Camorra families aimed at forming a Camorra cartel'

G 158 "it was the Moccia family of the great confederation who took it upon themselves to silence him forever".

G 211 "At the beginning of the 1980s Cicciotto di Mezzanotte and Sandokan were military managers, but also entrepreneurs with interests in every field, had by now matured the possibility of directing the enormous multicephalon of the confederation".

G 213 "After this death there was a split between all the families of the Casalesi confederation".

it. confederation 'national or international association between entities and organizations'

GRADIT s.v. confederation § 3 word of the common lexicon.



consortium

m. 'association of people, linked to a Camorra clan, set up to control and coordinate economic activities and contracts in their area of ??competence'

G 288 "it emerged from the ordinance that the consortium earned large sums from extortion"

it. consortium 'association of several subjects, set up to coordinate and regulate common activities, spec. economic and financial '

GRADIT s.v. consortium § 2 word of the technical - specialist economic lexicon.



smuggling

m. 'illegal activity consisting in importing or exporting goods in violation of customs laws'

G 24 "smuggling triggered the Camorra war of the early 1980s"

GRADIT s.v. smuggling § 1 [from 1291] word of the highly used lexicon 'illicit activity consisting in importing, exporting or circulating in the territory of a state goods that are prohibited or subject to tax'.



nickname

m. (nap.) 'nickname, which can be inherited from the ancestors or born on the basis of particular physical traits, with which the Camorra boss is identified

G 67 "Almost all bosses have a nickname: it is absolutely the unique, identifying trait."

G 65 "But the anthology of the contronomi is infinite".



coordinator

m. 'who coordinates the drug dealing square'

G.77 "the coordinator of the square is able, listening to them all hands-free with the map in front of him, to have under his eyes in real time the movements of the police and the movements of customers"

it. coordinator 'who, who coordinates'

GRADIT s.v. word coordinator of the common common lexicon.



Courier service

m. 'who receives the assignment, by the Camorra clans, to transport drugs from one city to another'

G 31 "Many work as couriers".

G 169 "The Giuliano then, even if with the stigma of infamy, continued to be the only ones able to maintain relations with the large drug traffickers and impose the law of protection"

it. courier 'person in charge of the transport of correspondence, dispatches and sim.'

GRADIT sv courier word of the common lexicon.




[D]

dolphin

m. 'who, being the boss's favorite, is destined to succeed him'

G 70 "It is said that Gennaro Marino, known as Mckay, the dolphin of Paolo Di Lauro, went to the hospital where the dying boy was, to comfort the boss".

G 70 "The boss had noticed the will of his dolphin to become independent but he wanted to forgive him"

it. dolphin 'designated or probable successor of an important personage'

GRADIT s.v. dolphin 2 [from 1958] word of the common lexicon.



employee

m. 'person who, for the work he does, depends on the authority of a Camorra clan; it is said of the entrepreneur who is subject to a Camorra group and who receives a salary from the latter '

G 88 "No longer free autonomous levels within a multilevel company, but employees"

it. employee 'employee'

GRADIT s.v. dependent § 4 word of the highly used lexicon.



directory

m. 'economic, financial and operational structure composed of entrepreneurs and bosses representing various Camorra families in the north of Naples'

G 49 "Everything was coordinated and managed by the Directory".

G 50 "The Directory - like the collegiate body of the French Thermidor - represented the real power of the organization more than the fire batteries and the military sectors".

it. Directory 'committee consisting of five members which exercised executive power in France between 1795 and 1799'

GRADIT s.v. Directory § 1st word of the technical-specialist, historical lexicon.



manager

m. 'who directs, who is at the top of a Camorra clan and is in charge of drug trafficking and dealing activities'

G. 71 "They wanted to meet Paolo, the father, the top manager, the top management, the first contact person of the association".

G 86 "the manager of the Spanish squares, a manager of the second level of the clan, had fled to Barcelona with the money from the Di Lauro bank".

G 102 "In via Fratelli Cervi, on the thirteenth floor of the building, all the leaders of the splinters still in the area had gathered".

G 143 "At the feet the Paciotti, the shoes that all the leaders of the clans in these parts wear ".

G 157 "A historical figure of Camorra leader is certainly Anna Mazza".

it. executive 'who has managerial functions in a specific sector or for certain services'

GRADIT s.v. executive § 3 word of the common lexicon.



dissociation

f. 'the action and effect of the dissociation of the militants in the armed organizations, who dissociated without repenting, without revealing names and accusing principals and executors'

G 159 «Anna Mazza intervened who sensed that the time had come for a new strategy. Propose dissociation ».

G 159 "Dissociation could have been the solution to the lethal power of the repentant, which although full of contradictions is the real fulcrum of the attack on the power of the Camorra".
'it. dissociation 'dissociation, dissociation and their result'

GRADIT s.v. dissociation § 1 word of the common lexicon.




[E]

performer

m. 'who, within a Camorra clan, has the task of materially carrying out a crime commissioned by a principal'

G 159 "The militants of the armed organizations dissociated without repenting, without revealing names and accusing principals and executors".

G 116 "According to the investigations, the perpetrators had also returned to the scene of the crime".

it. executor 'one who performs, who puts into practice a task assigned to him by someone else'

GRADIT s.v. executor § 1 word of the common lexicon.



extortion

f. 'act by which the Camorra clans, through violence or threats, obtain sums of money' (tot. 6).

G 60 "The System had also succeeded in transforming the classic extortion and usury logic".

G 216 "He was wanted for ten murders, three kidnappings, nine assassination attempts and numerous violations of the laws relating to weapons, as well as extortion".

G 288 "From the ordinance it emerged that the criminal consortium earned large sums of money through extortion".

GRADIT s.v. extortion word of the technical-specialist, legal lexicon. 'crime of whoever obtains a profit or an advantage from others through violence or threats'.



extortionist

m. 'who, within the Camorra clan, has the task of collecting sums of money through violence or threats'.

G 237 "After you have a career as a killer, as an extortionist or as a stake, you end up in construction or collecting garbage."

GRADIT s.v. extortionist [from 1800] low-use lexicon word 'who commits extortion'.




[F]

feud

f. 'struggle between Camorra groups for the purpose of revenge or for the conquest of power'.

G 95 "To follow the feud I was able to get a radio capable of tuning into the police frequencies."

G 104 "But the arrest of the group of the Spaniards was not able to stop the haemorrhage of the feud".

G 163 "not just a clash between factions, but a family feud that over the years has registered about forty ferocious ambushes that sow mourning between the two contending nuclei".

G 255 "Quadrano inserted the murder into the feud that was taking place between his group and the Schiavone".

GRADIT s.v. feud §2 [from 1750] word of the common lexicon 'fight between two families of organized crime, typical of the mafia, the camorra and the' ndrangheta, practiced with the elimination of the members of one or the other, for reasons of revenge , of supremacy, of control of the territory or of illegal activities'.



Falcon

m. 'who, in an organization or association, takes uncompromising or aggressive positions'.

G 223 «Some repentants had even reported ambush attempts by the organization's“ hawks ”against the senator».

it. hawk 'spec. in international disputes, supporter of the drastic and uncompromising line '

GRADIT sv falco § 3 [from 1966] word of the technical-specialist political lexicon.



family

f. 'group of people, united for criminal purposes, made up of members of the same family'

G 249 "The Camorra calls a clan organized for criminal purposes a" family "".

G 146 "The family where Paolo Di Lauro had taken his first steps".

G 55 "Then came the New Family of Carmine Alfieri and Antonio Bardellino, structured in a federative manner with economically autonomous families united by joint operational interests".

G 58 "The Licciardi family had transformed a place that was a reservoir of laborers into a drug trafficking machine".

G 62 «The Nuvolettas are the only family outside Sicily who sit in the dome of the Cosa Nostra».

G 158 "It was the Moccia family of the great confederation who took it upon themselves to silence him forever."

Ferrero s.v. family 'coterie, first degree of the mafia association. It is almost always made up of relatives and similar to the same family, or in any case by "friends" linked to it '.

GRADIT s.v. family § 5 [from the 2nd half of the 13th century] word of the fundamental slang lexicon 'in mafia jargon, grouping immediately below the clan'.



faction

f. 'group of Camorra, particularly sectarian, which is in struggle with another Camorra grouping'.

G 258 "Both factions, although not knowing each other's intentions, had reached the same solution".

it. faction 'group, party spec. characterized by intolerance and sectarianism '

GRADIT s.v. faction § 1 word of the common lexicon.



iron

m. 'pistol'

G 121 «More and more often everything that the kids of the System want they try to obtain with the“ iron ”, as they call the gun».

G 123 "They had armed them, they had given them an iron, a pistol, and a very limited territory in which to work."

Ferrero sv ferro 'the revolver, firearm, iron par excellence. This rumor is widespread and used above all in the central-southern regions, and in the jargon of the Italian-American mafia '.



supporter

m. 'who, within the Camorra clan, supports and favors the activities of the clan itself'

G 59 "Not far away, in Portogruaro, Vincenzo Pernice, Pietro Licciardi's brother-in-law was arrested and with him some supporters of the clan".

G 74 "The whole economic and financial structure has its own military team: a ferocious group of fire and a capillary network of supporters".

it. supporter 'who supports, favors in a disguised way, the action of subversive or clandestine political groups'

GRADIT s.v. supporter word of the common lexicon.



appearing

m. 'who, in certain Camorra actions, pretends not to be part of the organization and intervenes only in case of need'.

G 254 "Nunzio De Falco was waiting for them, not in his villa in Santa Fe, but in a restaurant where most of the customers were probably appearing ready to intervene in case the policemen had committed any imprudence".

it. appearing 'appearance'

GRADIT s.v. appearing § 2 word of the common lexicon.



production chain

f. 'area in which the distribution of goods that are under the control of the Camorra clans is articulated'.

G 49 "The Secondiglianesi clans had created a commercial network spread all over the world, capable of purchasing entire chains of shops and thus dominating the clothing market".

franchising

inv. (engl.) 'system by which a Camorra boss gives his trusted man the right to exploit, under certain conditions and upon payment of a fixed sum, one of the drug dealing squares'.

G 80 «Not just a referent; the boss Paolo Di Lauro, who esteems his management, has given him the place in franchising ».

franchising 'contract whereby one company grants its products and the right to use its own brand to another company, upon payment of a fee'

GRADIT sv franchising (1975) word of the commercial specialist technical lexicon.



[G]

GAD

Inv. 'Abbreviation of the anti-drug group that the Camorra clan of Mondragone has set up to prevent drug dealing in Mondragone and on the Domitian coast'.

G 299 "The clan created a group with a lot of formal claims to the police switchboards, an acronym: the GAD, the anti-drug group."

G 299 "If they caught you with a joint in your mouth they broke your nasal septum, if any wife discovered a sachet of coke, it was enough to let someone from the GAD get a voice that would make them stop wanting to kick and punch in the face and forbidding petrol stations to refuel to get to Rome ».


token

m. tablet of ecstasy!

G 77 “Heroin, kobret, soft drugs and then pills, what some still call ecstasy when in reality there are one hundred and seventy-nine variants of ecstasy. Here in Secondigliano they are super-sold, they call them X rows, or the token or the candy ».

m .: cfr. candy, X file.

it. small metal disc token , corresponding to a certain monetary value, used for the operation of automatic machines'

GRADIT s.v. high use lexicon word token .



gregarious

m. 'who is part of a Camorra clan without a rank and without any managerial function; who depends in everything on the boss'.

G 218 "Many leaders and followers of the Casalesi clan had ended up in twenty years of power and aide."

G 280 "generalissimo of a clan among the most powerful in Europe in which he entered as a wingman".

G 93 "one, two ambushes a day, first the wingmen of the two clans, then the relatives, the burning of houses, the beatings, the suspects".

G 91 "The De Lucia, Giovanni Cortese, Enrico D'Avanzo and a large group of followers remain faithful to Di Lauro."

it. gregarious 'in a community, in an organization, member with no managerial duties or responsibilities'.

GRADIT s.v. gregarious § 2 word of the common lexicon.



guaglione

m. (nap.) 'boy'; term of the Neapolitan dialect with which the affiliates of the Camorra call the children who are recruited, with various tasks, within the Camorra organization '

G 92 «They are all Guaglioni ... all Guaglioni ... now I will show you what he does that».

G 103 "And then nothing and no one could have prevented Gennaro Marino from having a dacha built in the heart of Secondigliano, a symbol of the strength of his business and even more a promise of success for his boys who, if they knew how to behave, sooner or later they could reach that luxury, even on the outskirts of Naples, even in the darkest edge of the Mediterranean ».

D'Ambra sv guaglione 'Giovanetto. Boy. Delivery man. Rascal'.

Andreoli sv guaglione 'child, boy - for boy destined for small shop services, delivery boy; street boy, brat '.

D'Ascoli sv guaglione 'boy, young boy'.

GRADIT s.v. guaglione [from 1857] word of the dialectal lexicon, napol. 'boy'.



guappo

m. (nap.) 'Camorra; term of the Neapolitan dialect with which the affiliate of the Camorra was originally called.

G 273 "The new generations of bosses do not have an exquisitely criminal path, they do not spend their days on the street with the local guappo as a reference, they do not have a knife in their pocket or scars on their faces".

D'Ambra sv guappo 'good, valiant, smargiasso'.

D'Ascoli sv guappo 'Camorra, bravaccio, bully; valiant, of good quality, excellent '.

Ferrero s.v. guappo 'bravaccio, bully, man who is on the way to becoming a Camorra'.

GRADIT s.v. guappo § 1a [from 1651] word of the dialectal lexicon, napol. 'Camorra, bravaccio, hooligan'.



bodyguards

m. and f. 'who is responsible for the protection of the Camorra boss; the boss' bodyguard.

G 74 "Giuseppe Prezioso, Cosimo's personal bodyguard".

G 160 "Women the executives, women their bodyguards, women the entrepreneurs of the clan".

G 161 "His bodyguards were two girls."

G 274 "The shoulder guards of the boss women are dressed like Uma Thurman in Kill Bill : blond bob and phosphorescent yellow jumpsuits".

G 276 "Romeo was his bodyguard, the part of the right arm, the faithful man".

GRADIT s.v. shoulder guard § 1 [from 1631] word of the lexicon of low use 'bodyguard'.



Camorra war

f. 'situation of armed conflict between two or more Camorra factions'

G 96 "Since the Camorra war broke out, many have stopped putting limits on their tolerance."

G 105 "They say that the Camorra war is between gangs, who kill each other".

G 106 "In the wars of the Camorra the Red Cross is not recognized, no clan has signed the Geneva Treaty".

G 139 "The wars of the Camorra put the countries dominated by families on the map, the Campania hinterland, the lands of the bone, territories that some call the Far West of Italy, which a violent legend claims richer in machine guns than in Forks".



fire group

m. 'armed group of a Camorra clan'

G 110 "The firing groups call them paranze".

see paranza



[H]

holding

inv. (eng.). 'Camorra clan that controls and manages the drug dealing activity of a group of clans'.

G 72 "The largest drug trafficking holding company, one of the strongest nationally and internationally, is about to go through the deadliest of crises, after decades of perfect functioning."

holding 'parent company; financial company that controls one or more banks'

GRADIT s.v. holding ingl., technical-specialist economic.



[I]

entrepreneur

1 . m. 'Camorrista, chief of the Camorra'.

G. 210 "Entrepreneurs. This is how the Camorra members of Caserta define themselves: nothing but entrepreneurs ».

G 230 "Passarelli was the absolute entrepreneur, the number one, the closest, the most trusted".

2. entrepreneur of the clan , of the system , of the Camorra : m. 'who, within the Camorra clan, carries out an organized economic activity for the purpose of producing or exchanging goods, especially drugs, or services'.

G 87 "No more consortium entrepreneurs, free to decide the amount of money to invest, the qualities and types of drugs to be placed on the market".

G 108 "The entrepreneurs of the clans are the only ones who have an exponential advantage".

G 127 «Cosimo clearly represents the new entrepreneur of the system».

G 127 «The bosses, the Camorra entrepreneurs would repeat the same».

G 205 "In exchange, companies , businesses , shops , farms , farms were bought by the entrepreneurs of the clan at an excellent price and the Italian company spread over half of Serbia".

G 295 "Augusto had imposed a name on the board of directors of the clinic, the name of one of his daughters who was also an entrepreneur of the clan, enriched himself with the management of a landfill".

it. entrepreneur 'whoever starts and professionally exercises an economic activity for the production or distribution of goods or services'

GRADIT sv entrepreneur § 1 word of the common lexicon.



[L]

leader

inv. (english). 'absolute leader of a Camorra group'.

G 210 "The new leaders, the new wars, everything had happened after the explosion of the Bardellino clan, origin of the entrepreneurial power of the Camorra in these lands".

G 212 "Sandokan had to show all the bosses that he was the heir, that by right of ferocity he was the new leader of the Casalesi."

G 283 "The psychoanalyst boss Augusto La Torre was one of Antonio Bardellino's favorites: as a boy he took the place of his father becoming the absolute leader of the ? Chiuovi ? clan, as they called them in Mondragone".

leader , leader of a party, of a group, spec. an organization '

GRADIT s.v. leader § 1 word of the common lexicon.



legionnaire

m. 'who belongs to the group of the most trusted men of the Camorra boss'.

G 300 "Behind him, all his legionaries, the Camorra legionaries, had to stand behind his every action."

G 301 "The legionaries would have done everything for Augusto: even when the boss repented, they followed him".

it. legionary 'soldier belonging to military bodies spec. volunteers'

GRADIT s.v. legionary § 3 word of the technical-specialist, military lexicon.



level

m. 'one of the floors into which the Camorra system can be divided, with reference to the position of the Camorra employee for the purpose of determining the salary'.

G 73 "The organization is made up of a first level of promoters and financiers, made up of the leaders of the clan".

G 73 "The second level includes those who physically deal with drugs".

G 73 "The third level is represented by the foremen".

G 73 "The fourth level, the most exposed, is made up of drug dealers".

G 88 "No longer free autonomous levels within a multilevel company, but employees".

it. level 'position held in a civil or military hierarchy'

GRADIT sv level § 3 word of the fundamental lexicon.



lieutenant

m. 'who, within the Camorra clan, has a subordinate rank to that of the boss and takes his place, if necessary'.

G 58 "Licciardi, at the end of the 1980s, was lieutenant in Secondigliano of Luigi Giuliano, the boss of Forcella, in the heart of Naples".

G 64 "Paolo Di Lauro came from the school of the Maranese, his criminal career began as their lieutenant".

G 140 "Before the policemen in balaclavas hit him with his face on the ground, Raffaele Amato had already had a setback: when he was arrested in a hotel in Casandrino together with another lieutenant of the group and a large Albanian trafficker".

it. lieutenant 'officer who takes the place of a superior'

GRADIT s.v. lieutenant § 2 word of the technical-specialist, military lexicon.




[M]

warehouse

m. 'sorting center for men and goods where clan agents go to pick up goods to be distributed to clan shops or other merchants'.

G 52 «The distribution mechanism that the Directory implemented was that of the warehouses. So they called them in the telephone interceptions: they are real sorting centers for men and goods ».

G 52 "The warehouses were the center of the commercial area where the agents arrived who took the goods to be distributed to the clan shops or other retailers".

it. warehouse 'room or set of rooms, spec. annexed to homes, rural buildings, industrial and similar plants, used for the shelter, storage and conservation of goods and various materials

GRADIT s.v. warehouse § 1st word of the highly used lexicon.



principal

m. 'he who, within the Camorra clan, charges others with the execution of a crime'.

G 157 "She was accused immediately after the death of her husband of having armed the hand of her son not yet thirteen to kill the instigator of the murder of her father".

G 159 "The militants of the armed organizations dissociated without repenting, without revealing names and accusing principals and executors".

GRADIT s.v. mandator § 2 word of the common lexicon 'whoever instructs another to commit a crime'.



labor

f. 'the set of those who, in the Camorra organization, have the task of materially carrying out a crime, as opposed to the leaders or principals who planned and organized it'.

G 31 "Parco Verde is a mine for Camorra laborers".

G 31 "Here all those who want to collect the lowest levers, the labor to be paid even less than the Nigerian or Albanian pusher".

G 32 "He would not have made Parco Verde an emergency tank from which to always draw labor at a very low price".

G 58 "The Licciardi family had transformed a place that was only a reservoir of laborers into a machine for drug trafficking: into international criminal entrepreneurship".

GRADIT s.v. manpower § 2 [from 1937] word of the common lexicon

'in an organization, the set of those who carry out simple executive tasks: the labor of crime'.



brick

m. 'hashish ingot'.

G 122 "In the system I take three hundred euros a week, but if I sell well I also get a percentage on each brick (the hashish ingot) and I can get to three hundred and fifty-four hundred euros"

it. brick ' brick product used as building construction material'

GRADIT s.v. brick § 1 word of the high use lexicon.



mazziatone

m. (nap.) 'physical assault for punitive purposes; call to order for those who do not abide by the rules of the Camorra '.

G 225 "After the mazziatone he had to run to the hospital to have his head sutured."

G 278 "The bosses want to speak directly with them, the clan can no longer bear these attitudes in the country, the paternalistic tolerance, usual in these territories, changes into a duty of punishment, and so they must have a ? mazziatone ?, a violent spanking publishes to make them go straight ".

Nap. mazziatone 'heavy beating, woodworking' ( D'Ascoli, Andreoli sv mazziatone ).



mediator

m. 'person who, within the Camorra clan, carries out mediation activities in the stipulation of a contract; which contributes to reaching an agreement '

G 51 "The American shopkeepers, the owners of the shopping centers wanted to deal exclusively with Secondiglianese mediators".

G 63 "There were no guarantees beyond the word of the mediators, but the investment was systematically profitable".

G 317 "Graduates, good looking, they became mediators after a few years spent in the US or England to specialize in environmental policies".

it. mediator 'whoever mediates or intervenes between two or more parties to facilitate the reaching of an agreement'

GRADIT s.v. mediator § 1st word of the common lexicon.



mesata

f. 'monthly salary that the clans give to the families of the affiliates who are in prison'.

G 153 «The mesata. This is the girl's first success ».

G 153 "The mesata is the monthly salary that the clans give to the families of the members".

G 153 "When engaged, the month is passed on to the fiancée even if it is better, to be sure of reversibility, to be pregnant".

G 154 "Almost always together with the month they also bring a little expense"

nap. mesata 'pay of a month, mesata' Andreoli, D'Ascoli sv mesata .

it. mesata 'pay, monthly salary'

GRADIT s.v. mesata § 2 [from 1500] word of the common lexicon.



[N]

drug trafficking

m. 'illicit international drug trade'.

G 54 "In many cases the paths of drug trafficking also moved through the channels of the sale of clothes".

G 63 "The Nuvolettas, federated with the Nettuno and Polverino subclans, had also renewed the investment mechanism of drug trafficking, creating a real popular cocaine shareholding system".

G 73 "The Di Lauro clan bills five hundred thousand euros a day only through drug trafficking."

G 290 "Rome, for all the entrepreneurial-Camorra families of Caserta, is the first point of reference for drug trafficking and investment in real estate".

GRADIT s.v. drug trafficking [since 1986] word of the common lexicon 'in journalistic language, drug trafficking at an international level'.



[P]

pole

m. 'who has the task of supervising the property and activities of the Camorra clans and controlling the territories of drug dealing to warn of any intervention by the police'.

G 31 "And then drivers and poles, to garrison territories even kilometers away from their home".

G 77 "Before their management as plaza organizers, the poles only protected the hustlers from arrests and identifications."

G 77 "Di Lauro, on the other hand, set up poles to protect buyers as well, so that anyone could safely access the squares managed by his men".

G 120 "The presence of ? poles ? is also fundamental in the roofing of construction sites".

G 272 «If some stake of the clan that still guarded the villa had surprised me, they would have given me blows and I could have even screamed like a slaughtered pig; no one would have heard. '

Ferrero s.v .: slang voice 'accomplice who stands guard, ready to give the alarm with an agreed signal in case of danger'

nap. pole 'pole; accomplice in a theft who has the task of fixing himself in a given place to spy on ' D'Ascoli sv

it. pole 'person who watches while the accomplices are carrying out a theft, a robbery and the like.'

GRADIT s.v. pole § 2 word of the common lexicon, slang.



paranza

f. (nap.) 'group of five armed people, belonging to a Camorra clan, who hide in safe houses and are called only for the purpose of killing'.

G 110 "The firing groups call them paranze".

G 111 "Before organizing themselves in paranze they immediately begin to strike".

G 117 "In the house where an entire paranza was hidden".

G 117 "Pikachu spoke quickly, gesticulating loudly and drawing positions, movements of the members of the paranza".

Nap. paranza 'equal quantity of men and things, like a four, an eight. Said of men. Hand, brigade, squad ' D'Ambra sv

Ferrero s.v .: 'classic unit of measurement of the Neapolitan Camorra: group of thieves, pickpockets and scammers who work as a team'

GRADIT s.v. paranza § 2 word of the common slang lexicon 'in the jargon of the Neapolitan Camorra, group of Camorristi'.

See fire group



drug match

f. 'large amount of drugs bought or sold in bulk'

G 55 "Dozens of police operations in recent years have shown that both the Sicilian mafia and the ? ndrangheta have needed to mediate with the Neapolitan clans for the purchase of large batches of drugs".

G 63 "Pensioners, office workers, small entrepreneurs gave money to some agents who then reinvested it for the purchase of drug consignments."

G 87 "The stakes are the investments that every manager makes in buying a lot of drugs".

G 210 "The strength of the Casalesi cartel has always been that of dealing with large batches of drugs without the need to feed an internal market."

GRADIT s.v. lot § 2 word of the technical-specialist commercial lexicon 'quantity of homogeneous goods that are bought or sold in bulk'.



repented

m. 'belonging to the criminal organization of the Camorra which declares its willingness to collaborate with justice in order to obtain a reduction of the sentence'

G 65 «The repentant Gaetano Conte was one of the first to reveal the organization chart. A repentant with a particularly interesting story. "

G 71 "And so - according to the declarations of the repentant Pietro Esposito - they sent the message to Cosimo Di Lauro, the regent of the cartel".

G 117 «What the repentant Pietro Esposito known as“ Kojak ”tells us does not seem to be a legend».

G 211 "As the repentant Carmine Schiavone tells us, the two bosses pressed Antonio Bardellino to return him to Italy and push him to eliminate Mimì Iovine".

G 223 «Some repentants had even reported ambush attempts by the organization's“ hawks ”against the senator».

GRADIT s.v. repentant § 1 word of the common lexicon 'accused of crimes of terrorism or belonging to organized crime who undertakes to collaborate with justice by providing useful information for investigations, to enjoy the particular benefits provided by law, spec. relating to the reduction of the sentence '.



piece

m. 'homocide'.

G 118 «But what struck me most was the term“ piece ”. Piece was the new way to define a murder ».

G 118 «“ Making a piece ”: an expression borrowed from piecework, the killing of a man equated to the manufacture of a thing, no matter what. A piece.".

G 118 "Even when Pikachu spoke of the dead in the Secondigliano war, he spoke of the pieces made by the Di Lauro and the pieces made by the splinters."

it. piece 'object that is part of a series of similar others'

( GRADIT s.v. piece 1 § 1st word of the fundamental lexicon).



shop square

f. 'area where drugs are sold'.

G 64 "His project was to be able to coordinate the shopping plazas with the same logic with which he had managed the chain stores and jacket factories".

G 75 "The drugstore squares have always fascinated me for the perfect organization that contradicts a reading of pure decay".

G 76 "Everyone has a day off and if they show up late on the drugstore square for every hour they are subtracted fifty euros from their weekly wages".

G 81 "The organization of the shopping plazas could have taken place in Posillipo, in Parioli, in Brera, but it took place in Secondigliano".

G 305 "Vague resemblance to Stallone, body pumped up in the gym, he was putting up a shop that soon would have led him to be an important reference, and shortly thereafter he could kick the old bosses now with a shattered charisma after repentance ".

it. piazza 'place where economic, financial or commercial transactions take place'

GRADIT s.v. piazza § 6th word of the technical-specialist commercial lexicon.

it. shop 'putting into circulation, marketing of substances, of products prohibited by law'

GRADIT s.v. shop § 2 word of the highly used lexicon .



protection payment

m. 'form of bribe extorted from shopkeepers and entrepreneurs by mafia and camorra organizations'.

G 227 "The Casalesi used to impose protection money on entrepreneurs from Campania in the north, now they manage the market directly".

Ferrero s.v. cut off the mafia bribe; the payment of a bounty on any commercial, industrial and professional activity '.

GRADIT s.v. lace § 5 word of the common slang lexicon. 'sum extorted from mafia organizations, especially from traders and entrepreneurs'.



figurehead

m. 'who, allied to a Camorra clan, allows the use of their name to sign contracts for the purchase of assets in place of the boss whose name remains unknown'.

G.50 «In reality, the shop, owned by a figurehead, was his property. Following this trail, the entire production and commercial network of the Secondiglianesi clans emerged ».

G 63 "The profits from drug trafficking were then reinvested, through some nominees, in the purchase of apartments, hotels, shares in service companies, private schools and even art galleries".

G 215 "The milk companies were registered in the name of nominees who acted on behalf of the Casalesi".

it. figurehead 'someone who apparently participates in a business in his own name and on his own account while in reality he acts on behalf of another who cannot or does not want to appear'

GRADIT s.v. figurehead word of the common lexicon.



stinging

f. 'ritual of affiliation to the Camorra, consisting in pricking the aspirant's right fingertip with a pin'.

G 247 «In San Cipriano d'Aversa Antonio Bardellino still affiliated with the ritual of pricking, also used by the Cosa Nostra: a modality that belonged to rituals that have gradually disappeared. The aspirant's right finger was pricked with a pin and the blood dripped onto the image of the Madonna of Pompeii. Then this was burned on a candle and passed from hand to hand to all the leaders of the clan who were standing around the perimeter of a table. If all the affiliates kissed the Madonna, the newly introduced officially became part of the clan ».

it. sting 'superficial wound caused by the penetration into the skin of a thin and sharp object, by a sting and the like.'

GRADIT s.v. stinging § 1 word of the high availability lexicon.



bet

f. 'investment that every leader of a Camorra clan makes in buying a drug lot with the clan's capital'

G 87 "The bets had been made with the Di Lauro capital, but a large part of the profit that had to be shared had been withheld".

G 87 "The stakes are the investments that each executive makes in buying a drug lot with the Di Lauro capital".

G 87 «Bet. The name derives from the irregular and hyper-liberal economy of coca and tablets for which there is no element of certainty and caliber. Even in this case, the bet is like on a roulette wheel ».

G 140 "Amato had become an important executive since he mediated on drug trafficking and managed investment bets."

it. bet 'to risk a certain sum in a game of chance or, even, a bet relating to any event; the amount of money wagered '

GRADIT s.v. bullet § 5 word of the common lexicon.



pusher

inv. (English). drug dealer; who, within the Camorra clan, has the task of selling drugs'

G 76 "And then new pushers are being deployed in this area from other squares."

G 76 "For an arrested pusher, another is warned and will be found on the spot".

G 76 «Here the hustlers are all very young guys».

G 79 "No pusher in acetate suit crashed into the corners of the squares for whole days defended by the goalposts".

Ferrero s.v. pusher 'big drug dealer. It is a voice imported from Anglo-American slang, where it literally means "the one who pushes".

GRADIT s.v. pusher ingl., exotic jargon. [since 1974] 'drug dealer'



[R]

racketeering

inv. (English) 'criminal activity of the Camorra, consisting in imposing, with violence, control and extortion on commercial, entrepreneurial and professional activities'.

G 61 "The Nuvolettas of Marano, a suburb north of Naples, had triggered a more complex and efficient racketeering mechanism based on mutual benefit and the imposition of supplies".

G 62 "The companies represented by Gala claimed to have been victims of the racket of the Camorra, to have suffered the diktat of the clans".

G 215 "The new Casalese Camorra bourgeoisie has transformed the extortion relationship into a sort of additional service, the racketeering into a participation in the Camorra company."

G 215 «The racket as an imposed purchase of services. This new conception of the racket emerges from a 2004 investigation by the Caserta Police Headquarters which ended with the arrest of eighteen people ”.

GRADIT sv racket dall'ingl., Word of the common lexicon [from 1959] 'criminal organization that controls certain sectors of economic activity, extorting money by intimidation'.



System guy

G 124 "The waiters in the pizzeria were the same age as the System boys and looked at them in admiration, without even having the courage to serve them".

1. System kid
'very young affiliated with the Camorra organization'.

G 118 "Pikachu loved him, he described him as a sort of boss, he was a reference among the System kids because he had the task of feeding fugitives and, according to him, shopping directly to the Di Lauro family".

G 121 "More and more often everything that the System kids want they try to get with the" iron ", as they call the gun, and the desire for a cellphone or a stereo, a car or a moped, easily turns into murder. "

G 121 "Pikachu and Kit Kat took me to Nello, a pizza chef from the area who was in charge of feeding the System kids when they finished their shift."

G. 129 «The System kids had even begun to call them 'talking dead'».

GRADIT s.v. boy § 1b word of the fundamental lexicon.

See system



ras

m. 'who, within the Camorra clan, possesses a strong but not total authority and is a subordinate of the boss, while exercising his power locally'.

G 88 "Bizzarro was the Ras of Melito".

G 88 "Ras is an expression that intends to define who possesses a strong but not total authority, while still subject to the boss, at the highest office".

GRADIT s.v. ras § 2 [from 1885] word of the common lexicon fig. 'leader of the underworld who exercises his power locally'.



referent

m. 'person who is a point of reference for the Camorra clan within a given territory'.

G 71 "They wanted to meet Paolo, the father, the top manager, the top management, the first contact person of the association".

G 80 «According to the investigations, Gennaro Marino Mckay made this square so convenient. He is the clan referent in this territory ».

it. referent 'in journalistic or political language, person or thing that constitutes or can constitute a point of reference'

GRADIT s.v. referent § 2 word of the common lexicon.



regent

m. 'who, within the Camorra clan, exercises power in the absence of the boss; it is usually said of the boss's son who takes the place of the fugitive or inmate father '.

G 71 "And so - according to the declarations of the repentant Pietro Esposito - they sent the message to Cosimo Di Lauro, the regent of the cartel".

G 124 «Cosimo Di Lauro has been arrested. The regent of the clan, the leader of the slaughter, according to the accusations of the Anti-Mafia Prosecutor of Naples, the commander of the clan according to the repentants ».

G 125 "The war did not allow the villa to be completed, to be filled with furniture and paintings, to become the regent's palace, the golden heart of the rotting body of the Secondigliano building".

G 298 "According to the investigations, it was the regent of the clan, Giuseppe Fragnoli, who wanted to eliminate him. Without even asking for authorization, he decided to get rid of the bad tongue that was so tarnishing the image of the boss."

Ferrero s.v. regent 'substitute for a householder, in the jargon of the new mafia'.

it. regent 'who temporarily holds an office or a public office, replacing the absent or missing holder'

GRADIT s.v. regent § 4 word of the common lexicon.



[S]

split

f. 'division of a Camorra group into two or more new groups, due to differences that have arisen on the principles, methods, purposes or for the conquest of independence and power in a specific territory'.

G 86 «In reality he had not paid his share to the clan thus showing that he no longer had any kind of subjection with those who wanted to pay him. He had formalized the split ».

G 88 "When the Secondiglianese fire groups began to show their military strength, the split had not yet taken place."

G 92 "In 1992 the old management team resolved the split of Antonio Rocco, head of the Mugnano area, at the Fulmine bar, entering armed with machine guns and hand grenades".

G 97 "If someone goes unpunished it is too great a risk that legitimizes the possibility of betrayal, new hypotheses of splits".

it. splitting 'division of a group resulting from a political, social or private conflict'

GRADIT s.v. splitting § 1b word of the common lexicon.



splinter

m. 'those who join a splinter movement within a Camorra clan; this is the name given to the men of the Di Lauro clan who have strayed from it '.

G 86 «In Andalusia the Casalesi del Caserta, on the islands the Nuvoletta di Marano, and in Barcelona the ? splinters ?. This is the name that someone begins to give to the Di Lauro men who have gone away ».

G 94 "On October 30, 2004 they presented themselves at Salvatore de Magistris's house: a sixty-year-old man who married the mother of Biagio Esposito, a splinter, a Spaniard".

G 101 "The very young splinter is terrified that the Di Lauros may blame her, but he reassures her by saying that he had many girls, so no one can associate Anna with him."

G 111 "On 15 January they shoot Carmela Actress, mother of the splinter Francesco Barone, '? o Russo', indicated in the investigations as a close man of the McKays in the face".

G 141 "The province to the splinters, Naples to the Di Lauro".

it. splinter 'who gives rise to or participates in a political or ideological split'

GRADIT s.v. splinter word of the common technical-specialist political lexicon.



sentinel

f. 'armed person who, within the Camorra clan, is responsible for the surveillance and protection of the members of the clan'.

G 72 "They observe the prepared escape routes, the sentries posted, without attracting attention".

G 106 "The nurses reported that before entering to go and help someone, anyone, not only shot and killed, but also an old woman with a fractured femur or a heart attack, they had to get out, be searched, let them enter the ambulance a sentry who checked whether it was really a medical transport or hid weapons, killers or people to flee ».

G 116 «He showed me how the sentry who had killed his dog was positioned. Always sentry behind the door. Sitting, with a cushion behind it and the soles of the feet resting on the sides of the door ».

G 275 "Only a few years earlier, approaching this place would have meant being identified by dozens of sentries".

it. sentinel 'armed soldier in charge of a guard shift for the custody and protection of military persons or things'

GRADIT s.v. sentinel § 1 word of the highly used lexicon.



service

m. 'particular assignment to which a select group of Camorra is commanded'.

G 97 «The Camorra men sent to do the“ service ”maybe they were loaded with coca or maybe they had to be sober to try to guess the most microscopic detail. But it is well known what methods they use to eliminate all resistance, to undo the slightest breath of humanity. The fact that the body was burned seemed to me a way to cancel the torture. "

it. service 'every single position to which a soldier is held'

GRADIT s.v. service § 3 word of the fundamental lexicon.



overshoot

intr. 'commit a mistake; not to abide by the rules and orders of the Camorra '.