Camorra clans were using council
housing in Marigliano and San Vitaliano, near Naples, to push
drugs round the clock.
Protection money was also demanded from supermarkets, funeral
services, builders, street vendors, greengrocers and pizzerias
in the area.
One entrepreneur who did not want to pay was kidnapped and
taken before the clan leaders with the complicity of a Camorra
member's mother.
The discovery was by the carabinieri of Castello di Cisterna,
who at dawn served 29 arrest warrants in Naples and the
surrounding province, Verona, Castel Volturno (Caserta), Terni,
Reggio Emilia, Ferrara and Bari.
Two attempted murders by firearms were also discovered, as
well as a beatings with baseball bats and the shooting in the
leg of three 'square leaders' who did not want to pay.
Those under investigation are held to be members of the
"Mariglianesi" clan operating between Marigliano and neighboring
municipalities.
Investigators say that the clan is part of the wider
Neapolitan "Mazzarella" clan.
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED © Copyright ANSA
