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We’ve had some threads here before about the Società Foggiana (which isn’t new, in that it’s been around now for about 40 years).

Sacra Corona Unità, despite its name, did not remain unified for long at all, with local breakaway organizations forming. Other splinter groups of the SCU emerged in Bari province and are grouped today under the term “Camorra Baresa”. Puglianese organizations, being on the Adriatic, have strong ties to Albanian groups, of course.

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The SCU doesn’t operate in Foggia today, but rather in Bari and particularly the southern provinces (Taranto, Lecce, Brindisi) […] it’s claimed that in 1980 Raffaele Cutolo authorized an offshoot of the NCO in Foggia at a meeting with Foggianese underworld figures, called the Nuova Camorra Pugliese (many of Cutolo’s acolytes were also incarcerated in prisons in Foggia province during this time). The NCP spread to other provinces in Puglia via the prison system. In 1983, Cutolo’s power and influence dramatically declined as he was losing his war against the “Nuova Famiglia” Camorra bloc, and clans aligned with Cutolo began breaking away. In that year, NCP member Giuseppe Rogoli, who was from Brindisi province, aligned himself with the Belloco ‘ndrina of the ‘Ndrangheta and refounded the NCP as the SCU. The Foggianesi were said to have remained closer to Cutolo’s people and Campania, however, and resented the leadership of Rogoli. In 1989, Foggia SCU leader Giuseppe Laviano was murdered and decapitated, with the Foggianesi breaking away from the SCU as the Società Foggiana under leader Rocco Moretti.
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I recently found out about an organized crime group which I had never heard of before.

Curious about the structure of Albanian organized crime, I googled that, and got a Wikipedia page with the title 'Albanian Mafia'. I found the structure interesting, but what I found most interesting, was a list of allies, which included a group called 'Societa foggiana'.

Clicking on to the link for Societa foggiana, I discovered that it was founded in the late 1980s, following a meeting with Raffaele Cutolo, leader of the NCO (Nuova Camorra Organizzata).

Societa Foggiana, also known as the Mafia Foggiana, or the fifth mafia, is in the city and province of Foggia. It was a split from the Sacra Corona Unita, who are known as the fourth mafia.

If you look at a map of the Boot of Italy, it is the little pointy, sticky out bit, at the back of the ankle, above the heel. It is the northern part of Puglia.

The Societa Foggiana is described as the "most brutal and bloody of all organized crime groups in Italy."
Robert Saviano, in 2013, described it as "the most ignored mafia group by the media, but it's very powerful and brutal."