Camorra, the police chief: "A gangster mutation is underway in Naples"
Gabrielli comments on the alarm launched by the prefect Valentini in an interview with "Repubblica": "The disarticulation of the old criminal families has triggered anarchic forces"

July 15, 2020

"In the face of a significant disarticulation of some Camorra families, the loss of social control has left free a series of anarchoid forces, no longer responding to the logic of underworld families. In this context, the most youthful groups have given rise to the phenomenon of gangsterism which characterized and is characterizing the city and the hinterland in this period.
Obviously all this does not mean that the fight against the Camorra should not see the word end, but at this moment this violence which is a cause of great concern for citizens and is translated through the use of weapons, is something that questions us and pledges ". Police chief Franco Gabrielli said in reply - on the sidelines of the Ammaturo Prize in progress in the Neapolitan capital - to those who asked him to comment on the alarm launched on the 'Republic' of the prefect of Naples Marco Valentini on the spread of weapons among young people.

"A prefect never speaks in vain but for consolidated and acquired data - underlined Gabrielli - and as provincial safety authority he has the pulse of the situation. I believe that the city, like the whole country, is recovering after the lockdown and after a period of compression of the crime due to the fact that people were at home and that predatory crimes were difficult to carry out ".

"In this context - he added - as we had already noticed before Covid, in a country where blood crimes are increasingly marginal, the Neapolitan and Foggia realities have represented some exceptions in recent years in the sense that in spite of of the strongly compressed trend of other parts of the country, in the Neapolitan and Foggiano areas continued to shoot and die killed even if in smaller percentages. And this in the Neapolitan reality has had a gangsteristic mutation ".
"Therefore at this moment - he concluded - there is a particular attention to the phenomena of widespread crime, precisely because the lockdown period has led to a compression of the criminal phenomena and now these phenomena are resuming with a higher violence than the previous one".