Anti-Camorra raid nabs 64 suspects
Suspected of drugs, extortion, using 'kids' to do dirty work

(ANSA) - Naples, June 9 - State Police arrested 64 people Tuesday on suspicion of belonging to Camorra mafia clans operating in the Forcella area of Naples.
The suspects are believed to belong to the Amirante, Brunetto, Giuliano and Sibillo clans. They are accused of mafia association, murder, attempted murder, drug trafficking, possession of illegal weapons, and extortion.
A total of 77 people have been placed under investigation in the probe into a crime syndicate that emerged out of the ashes of the historic Giuliano clan, which took over illicit activities in various parts of the Naples historic city center.
Investigators say the probe has shed light on a series of ambushes motivated by turf wars between rival clans.
Wiretaps also revealed the syndicate used very young affiliates to do their dirty work - whom they called "the kids".
The suspects were arrested on various charges including mafia association, homicide, attempted murder, drug trafficking and illegal weapons possession. Prosecutors are also looking into possible links between the Forcella clans and the 1985 assassination of crusading anti-mafia investigative reporter Giancarlo Siani.
A mobster named Angelo Nuvoletta died in 2013 at the age of 71 while serving a life sentence for ordering the hit on Siani.
Siani had written an article in the Naples newspaper Il Mattino revealing Nuvoletta's betrayal of an another Camorra boss, Valentino Gionta, an ally whom Nuvoletta had had arrested in order to placate an adversary during a bloody, violent rash of reprisals.
Nuvoletta is believed to have ordered Siani's murder to save face, and cover up the fact that he had broken a mafia honor code.
Nuvoletta was arrested in May 2001 after 17 years in hiding.