Police arrested six members of the Moccia clan. The alleged crimes are of mafia-type association and illegal carrying and possession of war weapons and common firearms and related ammunition.

The Moccia clan

The Moccia clan is considered one of the most powerful mafia groups of the Camorra type operating mostly in the municipalities of Afragola , Acerra , Casoria , Casalnuovo di Napoli , Caivano, Arzano, Frattamaggiore, Grumo Nevano, Frattaminore and Cardito. Over the years it has forcefully entered Lazio , Lombardy and Puglia, taking possession of commercial activities such as fruit and vegetable shops, but also restaurants and night clubs. Other profitable activities of the clan, especially in the city of Rome, where it is firmly established, are the control of building contracts, extortion, drug trafficking, money laundering, arms trafficking and above all the management of betting shops. .

The founder of the clan was Gennaro Moccia , killed in a Camorra attack in April 1974, probably by a fire group of the Giugliano and Magliulo clan, antagonists of the Moccias.

Following the feud, the Giugliano and Magliulo clan was ousted, thus reuniting, in the following years, Afragola and the neighboring municipalities under the control of a single and powerful clan, the Moccias. The void left by Gennaro Moccia was then filled by his wife, Anna Mazza, the first woman in Italy to have undergone criminal proceedings for mafia crimes . The group has been able to count and count on bosses of the caliber of Gennaro Moccia, Angelo Moccia , Anna Mazza , Luigi Moccia, Vincenzo Moccia and alliances with other clans such as those of Licciardi, Sacco-Bocchetti, the Russo di Nola Clan, the Contini and the Senese clan.

Given the territories controlled by the clan and the areas with which it borders, even if of a Camorra style, the Moccia clan has established business relationships even if there have been several wars with types of mafias such as those of the "Cosa Nostra" and ' ndrangheta, both in the Caserta area with the Casalesi and in northern Italy, in regions such as Lombardy and Piedmont. Furthermore, from the settlement in Rome, the Clan has managed to comfortably fit into the administrative environment, as well as the political one. It manages the market of slot machines, street food trucks, chestnut sellers that can be found at every corner of the most famous squares in Rome. And we can find their acolyte in every street business, such as florists and markets, as in hashish, marijuana and cocaine dealing areas such as Piazza San Lorenzo, local pubs and discos. It is no coincidence that the DIA in the annual reports among all the prominent mafia groups present in the capital, gives a certain weight to the percentage of Moccia's earnings. The Moccia clan has a considerable share of control over the territory of Rome. Where there were and still are groups such as those of the Magliana and “Nuova Magliana”, with Massimo Carminati, who despite being under house arrest holds a certain power and control, the Moccias demonstrate a considerable range of action. Even during the operations of "Mafia Capitale", the Moccia clan had its role and the authorities had a certain foresight, following for some time and knowing a part of their business.

As for Campania, since the 80s "of the reconstruction after the 1980 Irpinia earthquake . Luigi Moccia, was considered by the investigators to be the white collar of the clan, the true mind of the criminal holding, capable of transforming one of the most bloody gangs of the Neapolitan, into a mafia that grows in the apparent tranquility of respectable offices. In fact, the top management of the organization is mainly interested in top-level entrepreneurial affairs, also thanks to the strong penetration force at the local political level. As also stated by the last publication of the DIA, none of the leaders of the clan has ever become repentant, they have only limited themselves to dissociating, thus welding a single criminal continuity in the hinterland of the Neapolitan area.

In Lazio, on the other hand, according to the investigators, the Moccias, in collaboration with the clan of Michele Senese, powerful head of the Roman underworld, originally from Afragola and close to the Moccia, manage and conduct illegal activities and thanks to the complacency of unsuspected figureheads, they also control legal business and economic activities, such as “clean” banks and financial companies.