The Italian mafias are doing all they can to prevent coronavirus from harming their business — including orchestrating violence at anti-lockdown protests. The mob’s drugs trade was hit hard by lockdown restrictions, but economic chaos presents opportunities.

According to Italian authorities, the Camorra planned and directed demonstrations in Naples that descended into violence and attacks on police on Friday. Similar protests have taken place across the country for the past four days, with bar and restaurant owners expressing concerns that tighter measures, brought in by the government to counter a surge in coronavirus cases in the country, will destroy their businesses.

While the economic turmoil caused by the crisis has presented opportunities for the mafia to snap up stricken firms, curfews and lockdown restrictions are bad news, because increased police checks curtail the mob’s freedom to operate. Police estimate that with the closure of nightlife in Italy, the Camorra’s drugs revenue will be hit by as much as 60 percent.