The Camorra raised its head: 182 clans and over 4 thousand affiliates
Data in the six-monthly report of the Anti-Mafia Investigation Directorate
by Fabio Postiglione

The Neapolitan Camorra has an army of boys ready to do anything to conquer an alley, a square and an entire district. "Nighttime excursions, shootings, patrolling the territory," as in a war. Impressive numbers that the Anti-Mafia Investigation Directorate has enclosed in the semi-annual report sent to Parliament, which photographs the state of organized crime throughout Italy.

And Naples, with its province, beats every possible record: number of arrests, seizures, investigative initiatives, inspections, investigations. There are 182 clans, 100 of which only in the city and over 4 thousand between bosses and affiliates. "We are witnessing the fragmentation of organized crime" typical of the city center that registers districts with hardly beatable records. They are the ones with the greatest presence and Camorra infiltration with respect to the population density. Between the Quartieri Spagnoli and the Sanità district, passing through Forcella and the Decumani, there are 26 Camorra groups, more or less aggressive, which are opposed to the search for space to do business. But changing the area does not change the numbers. Between Secondigliano and Scampia there are 11 clans that divide the millionaire collections of drug trafficking. A total and devastating fragmentation of the Neapolitan camorra that recruits young and very young among their ranks to do business. "There is a generational discomfort that affects young people, for whom the criminal models proposed by the clan continue to exert a strong attraction, representing an easy tool for the conquest of power and wealth. Precisely these young people represent an inexhaustible catchment area for criminal organizations, where they recruit manpower to be used for drug dealing, extortion and, in some cases, even for the consumption of homicides. representing an easy tool for the conquest of power and wealth.

To this plethora of aspiring camorristi, is added the ranks of boys who belong to mafia families and are started, by the same parents, to criminal activities, still children, "writes Dia. In the province the fracture of the big gangs that took place in Naples has not registered in a striking way and so rooted in the territory continue to do business in total silence, strong of a large chunk of people who do not report. The Moccia in Afragola, the Mallardo in Giugliano, the Polverino in Marano, the Amato-Pagano in Melito.

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