Camorra in Naples, the Mazzarellas and the Alliance of Secondigliano 'masters' of the city
Antonio Mangione

The two main criminal actors of the Neapolitan Camorra scene are the Secondigliano Alliance and the Mazzarella Clan. The first 'family' is made up of the Mallardos, Contini-Bostis and Licciardis.
The MAZZARELLA clan is made up of numerous minor criminal groups, settled both
in the neighborhoods of the center of Naples and outside the capital, thus extending its
hegemony also over those active in the province of Naples.
To better represent the criminal assets of the Camorra organizations operating in the city of Naples, the metropolitan area has been divided into the Central Area, the Northern Area, the Eastern Area and the Western Area as described below.

With reference to the Naples-Central Area (Avvocata, San Lorenzo-Vicaria, Vasto Arenaccia, San Carlo all'Arena-Stella, Mercato-Pendino, Poggioreale, Montecalvario, Chiaia-San Ferdinando-Posillipo) an area was considered homogeneous territory on the geo-criminal level corresponding to the districts of the historic center10 in the capital. This area is characterized by the co-presence in the same neighborhoods of clans affiliated to the so-called. ALLIANCE OF SECONDIGLIANO and others attributable to the MAZZARELLA clan.The territorial boundaries of the two criminal formations in these neighborhoods are very fluid, the result of the rearrangements resulting from the intra-clan rivalries and the numerous and continuous contrasting actions. The resulting power vacuums, if not promptly filled, systematically induced the opposing factions to take advantage of these disadvantages in order to expand their area of ??influence or to re-appropriate old lost territories.

It should be noted, in particular, that within the MAZZARELLA clan the
claims of city territories passed under the control of the opposing CONTINI clan
(SECONDIGLIANO ALLIANCE) are not dormant, precisely in the central area of ??the Neapolitan city where the
borders between the two opposing criminal formations are even more fluid. The recent return
to freedom of prominent members of a family affiliated with the MAZZARELLA clan, in the
San Lorenzo district in the Forcella area of ??Naples, could be a harbinger of new friction between the two
rival teams.
The MAZZARELLA clan, through members of the same family or loyalists
associates, would maintain its hegemony over other rival groups in the management of illegal activities in the "Decumani" area, in the Mercato districts, in the Stella district and in the areas between Porta Capuana and Porta Nolana, as well as in the so-called area. New houses. The presence of groups attributable to the MAZZARELLA clan can also be found in the area of ??the University, Santa Chiara and Piazza Bovio as well as in the area of ??Pallonetto di Santa Lucia.

Also in the Sanità district, where the influential associations11 attributable to the ALLENZA DI
SECONDIGLIANO have been considerably weakened by recent police operations,
the attempt at expansion by the MAZZARELLA clan through
the BARILE family, which occupies a top position in the of the aforementioned
mafia groups.
The main criminal interests of the MAZZARELLA clan relate to counterfeiting,
drugs and extortion activities committed to the detriment of traders and street vendors in the
various city markets

The CONTINI clan, confederated to the so-called. ALLEANZA DI SECONDIGLIANO, would exercise
a function of management and control over the groups operating in the Vasto, Arenaccia,
Ferrovia, Rione Amicizia, Borgo Sant'Antonio Abate12 and surrounding areas.
The information acquisitions of the period in question would appear to show no changes
of the internal structures of the organization although two personal measures hit the leaders of the family in January and June 2022. In the first case, the attempt by the son-in-law and daughter of the clan chief to go to the United Arab Emirates would have been averted, where they would have long ago woven a dense network of relationships to manage the economic affairs of the organization and in particular the laundering, re-employment and self-laundering of the proceeds of illicit activities of the BOSTI-CONTINI clan. In the second case, 3 young people were arrested, including the nephew of the aforementioned clan leader, as they were believed to be the authors of an episode of serious violence committed near a restaurant in the historic center against a waitress and a foreign customer .

The same conflict between clans of opposing criminal cartels would be recorded in the
Poggioreale district, where the CONTINI clan would be hegemonic in the control of illicit activities in those districts already considered a fief of the MAZZARELLA clan.
Even in the Quartieri Spagnoli the criminal scenario would seem to be characterized by a high level of conflict between newly established groups looking for new spaces to manage their illicit interests and some old formations that would try to fill the power gaps.
From this point of view, in the state of the info-investigative acquisitions, it would seem that we should read the episodes of armed violence during the semester committed to the detriment of subjects involved in the management of drug dealing squares but the dispute over alleys and areas would create tensions also with reference the management of extortion against commercial activities.

Naples-North Area (Secondigliano, Scampia, San Pietro a Patierno, Miano, Piscinola, Chiaiano, Vomero and Arenella).
In the northern quadrant of the city of Naples, there is a large presence
of homogeneous groups in each district, all adhering to or gravitating around the so-called. Secondigliano alliance.
In the district of the same name, the judicial outcomes report the procedurally ascertained presence
of the LICCIARDI clan which, despite the detention of its undisputed leader, is still divided into four subgroups with recognized operational autonomy but subordinate to the aforementioned clan: -
Masseria Cardone group, direct emanation of the LICCIARDI family, headed by the
closest non-detained family member;
- group from the Don Guanella district whose alleged leader is in close kinship with
the LICCIARDI family;
-group from the Rione Berlingieri;
- group from the Kennedy Ward which, due to the police operations that have taken place in
recent years, is said to be in a situation of crisis in terms of criminal leadership and would be the object of the expansionist aims of certain neighboring groups.