A capo of the Camorra: "The independence of Catalonia is a curtain to operate without making noise"
The reporter David Beriain discovers in 'Clandestino in Spain' (DMax) how the Camorra has turned Barcelona into the nerve center of its illegal businesses on the Mediterranean coast.



The journalist interviews several capos. Among them one that has 20 people working in Spain (in addition to many kids). He says he has so many businesses in Barcelona that he can't even count them. And he affirms that the independence of Catalonia is "a curtain" so that the camorra can operate in the shade, "without making noise". They move "a lot of money, a lot." They don't have it stopped, he says, "because if he doesn't take dust." You invest in businesses such as restaurants, discos, hotels ... Without any shame, he explains: "We have so many things that it would take us one day to explain them." The gangster explains that in the newspapers we only talk about politics and independence, "and in the meantime, we do our business in the shade." And they don't like publicity, he admits Beriain with a sneer, hiding his face behind a balaclava. "We have 100 buildings in Diagonal Mar alone, we have built many skyscrapers." It is the so-called 'washer' of murky money.

Another boss of one of the strongest clans will teach the reporter how the narcos bring cocaine inside pineapples, and will tell him about his relationship with the Camorra and the multiple ways they have of introducing the drug into the port of Barcelona.

The journalist also meets Maurizio Prestieri , an important ex-camp of the Neapolitan mafia with whom he meets in Madrid to explain why our country is the preferred place for the mafia to launder money, traffic and take refuge. After being arrested in Marbella in 2003, Prestieri spent several years in prison and now collaborates with the police as a confidant. "Benidorm, Alicante, Torrevieja, Barcelona ... It is not necessary to be a scientist to know what happens. Someday it will be known as the" españacamorra ", assures the excapo.