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[SantoClaus]

Are ex-Camorra members in on the creation of Sacra Corona Unita?

[aleksandrored]

I remember the clan war shown in the film gomorrah.

Cutolo tried to unite them in the 70s and 80s, but ended up losing the war and the Nuova Camorra was practically extinct in 1986, and since then the organization seems to have gotten more and more violent and worse.

cutolo wanted to reform the old camorra of 1800 that was a single big organization, anyway the war between nco and nuova famiglia in the early 1980s was more violent of the following ones, the slaughter of torre annunziata in 1984 that left 8 dead is peculiar of those years

It seems that since the 1980s, Camorra has been living in wars and violence, and becoming more of a cartel than a mafia.

[aleksandrored]

Mafioso of Camorra returns to prison in Italy after 5 months



ROME, 22 SEPTEMBER - Placed under house arrest for health reasons since April, during the critical phase of the pandemic of the new coronavirus in Italy, Pasquale Zagaria, linked to the Neapolitan mafia Camorra, returned to prison on Tuesday (22).

The entrepreneur and brother of Michele Zagaria, head of the powerful Casalesi clan imprisoned since 2011, was transferred this morning to the Opera prison in Milan.

The mobster had been placed under house arrest at a relative's home in Brescia for health reasons related to Covid-19 in April by decision of the Sassari Surveillance Court, which set a five-month deadline for the measure.

At the time, Zagaria was subjected to a regime of total isolation called “41 bis”, but he ended up benefiting from court decisions. The authorities claimed that the health facilities in the Sardinian jail, where he was serving time, did not offer the conditions for a "serious illness".

The decision, however, was controversial and called into question the constitutional legitimacy of the decree of the Minister of Justice, Alfonso Bonafede.

Today, however, the Court of Brescia found that the mobster's needs had ceased and, with that, he had to return to the prison.

[Strax]

I may be wrong, but today I find Camorra very disorganized, I remember a report many years ago that showed the very individual organization, it looked more like a cartel.

As someone said already, they are more like a street gangs than mafia family. There are few clans that are organized and resemble sicilian mafia structure(Casalesi,Nuvoletta), some of the members were 'made' into both Camorra and Sicilian mafia.

[scagghiuni]

I remember the clan war shown in the film gomorrah.

Cutolo tried to unite them in the 70s and 80s, but ended up losing the war and the Nuova Camorra was practically extinct in 1986, and since then the organization seems to have gotten more and more violent and worse.

cutolo wanted to reform the old camorra of 1800 that was a single big organization, anyway the war between nco and nuova famiglia in the early 1980s was more violent of the following ones, the slaughter of torre annunziata in 1984 that left 8 dead is peculiar of those years

It seems that since the 1980s, Camorra has been living in wars and violence, and becoming more of a cartel than a mafia.

the strongest as casalesi, nuvoletta, mazzarella, di lauro etc. are mafia-type groups, but it's not a single group as cosa nostra, it is formed by several clans that share common ground, some are affiliated with cosa nostra

[Shellackhead]

I remember the clan war shown in the film gomorrah.

Cutolo tried to unite them in the 70s and 80s, but ended up losing the war and the Nuova Camorra was practically extinct in 1986, and since then the organization seems to have gotten more and more violent and worse.

cutolo wanted to reform the old camorra of 1800 that was a single big organization, anyway the war between nco and nuova famiglia in the early 1980s was more violent of the following ones, the slaughter of torre annunziata in 1984 that left 8 dead is peculiar of those years

It seems that since the 1980s, Camorra has been living in wars and violence, and becoming more of a cartel than a mafia.

the strongest as casalesi, nuvoletta, mazzarella, di lauro etc. are mafia-type groups, but it's not a single group as cosa nostra, it is formed by several clans that share common ground, some are affiliated with cosa nostra

At those Camorra clans you just named out and about in broad daylight? Or are they like the Sicilian Mafia that come out at night?

[scagghiuni]

At those Camorra clans you just named out and about in broad daylight? Or are they like the Sicilian Mafia that come out at night?

they are usually low-key, behind the scene, but they are the real power

[CabriniGreen]

NaplesChronicle


The Municipality of Marano forgets to notify the deeds: the assets are returned to the boss Polverino
The Municipality of Marano forgets to notify the deeds: the assets are returned to the boss Polverino
2Thursday 24 September 202023:00

by Ferdinando Bocchetti

A new case in the city of mega building abuses and administrative events that are disturbing to say the least. The TAR (second section) accepted the appeal presented by the owners of an illegal building, built in 1992 in via Sant'Agostino, in the hilly area of Marano , and subsequently acquired by the Municipality's real estate assets.



A dozen apartments which now, due to the Tar ruling, could return to the availability of the old owners. Among which Vincenzo Polverino stands out, better known as "Peruzzo", detained for several months as accused of being the head of the last criminal fringe belonging to the powerful family that for decades managed the illicit affairs between Marano, Quarto and Calvizzano. Polverino, who according to the magistrates of the DDA of Naples would have made a pact with the Orlando family (today hegemon in the three territories), is the cousin of Giuseppe, the king of hashish for years detained under the 41 bis regime.

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The judges of the TAR, urged by the appeal presented by the Polverino lawyers, accepted their requests, declaring the entire procedure packaged by the Municipality of Marano null and void. An at least tortuous process, which started in 1992 with the order to demolish the building and the acquisition of the property from the municipal and archived heritage, only between 2018 and 2019, with the definitive transcription in the registers of the Naples property conservatory and the subsequent eviction of the occupants.




The families who resided in that building (not all linked to the Polverino family) left partly of their own free will or after having remedied defeats in the administrative justice.

The appeal presented by the former owners of the property, however, had a very different outcome. In fact, in the sentence device, the judges point out that the Municipality of Marano has never notified the Polverinos of the acts relating to the ordinanceof demolition, the acquisition of the property from the municipal heritage nor is there any trace of the eviction orders.

But that's not all: the Municipality allegedly declared, in 2007, the building amnesty applications presented by the Polverinos, when the property - for 15 years - was actually already owned by the same municipality. In 2014, however, the same body even authorized the payment of donations in installments.
"In the face of the documentary production presented by the applicants - write the judges of the TAR - the Municipality of Marano has in no way proved that it has actually notified the sanctions (demolition and acquisition order, ed), by virtue of which it was subsequently ordered the transcription of the purchase of the property to the municipal assets ».

The judges again point out that "the failure to notify the culling measure determines the ineffectiveness of the possible acquisition measure due to lack of the relevant legitimating prerequisite". And again: "the presentation of the request for amnesty led, in reality, to the definitive suspension of the sanctioning measure and the supervening ineffectiveness of the demolition order".

It is a huge grain for the Municipality of Marano, which seemed oriented - as it did in similar cases - to allocate those apartments to the less well-off families in the area. "The Municipality - explains Raffaele Manfrellotti, a lawyer with an agreement with the institution that is now following the story - is reconstructing the entire procedure: it is necessary to understand what really happened with the notifications, if they were not presented in court due to an oversight or if, in in fact, they never reached the recipients. We are evaluating to appeal to the State Council ».
In Marano, the number of illegal municipal property or confiscated from the Camorra is enormous. Only recently have been assigned about fifteen illegal properties located in via ....

[CabriniGreen]

NaplesChronicle
Drugs in the house and in the briefs, two arrests in Marano: three kilos of hashish seized
Drugs in the house and in the briefs, two arrests in Marano: three kilos of hashish seized
Saturday 12 September 202018:25

by Ferdinando Bocchetti

Three kilos of hashish, 7 thousand euros in cash and two drug dealers arrested by the carabinieri, both already known and believed to be close to the clans of the city. Hashish remains the most flourishing business for the criminal groups, Orlando, Nuvoletta and Polverino, hegemons in the city. The carabinieri of the operational section of the Marano company yesterday arrested 31-year-old Massimo Amato and 25-year-old Alessandro Nacarlo , both already known to the police , for drug possession .

Avellino, under house arrest, continued to sell coca: arrested 47 years old
Avellino, under house arrest, he continued to sell ...
Escape on a scooter with three doses of cocaine: arrested after a long pursuit in Naples
Escape on the scooter with three doses of cocaine: ...
Drug dealing in Scampia, drug dealer arrested with hashish at home
Drug dealing in Scampia, drug dealer arrested with ...
During a house search, the soldiers of the Arma di via Nuvoletta found 2,273 doses of hashish weighing a total of 3 kilos in a bag hidden in the living room of the house. Some doses had also been hidden in the briefs. With the drug 7286 euros in cash deemed illicit proceeds, material for the packaging of the doses and precision scales. The drug, placed on the market, would have yielded over 20 thousand euros. The two were taken to the Poggioreale prison.

[AM434]

Are ex-Camorra members in on the creation of Sacra Corona Unita?

The roots of Sacra Corona Unita are based in the Camorra. Raffaele Cutolo expanded his Nuovo Camorra Organization into Puglia region of Italy in the early 1980's, calling the group established there the Nuovo Grande Camorra Pugliese. Soon after Cutolo lost power and the group broke off and became independent.

[AM434]

Are ex-Camorra members in on the creation of Sacra Corona Unita?

The roots of Sacra Corona Unita are based in the Camorra. Raffaele Cutolo expanded his Nuovo Camorra Organization into Puglia region of Italy in the early 1980's, calling the group established there the Nuovo Grande Camorra Pugliese. Soon after Cutolo lost power and the group broke off and became independent.

Sacra Corona Unita also has Ndrangheta influences as well.

[AM434]

https://www.corriere.it/cronache/12_mag ... 33eb.shtml

[AM434]

https://www.corriere.it/cronache/12_mag ... 33eb.shtml

https://www.researchgate.net/publicatio ... Strategies

[aleksandrored]

Operation against the Sicilian mafia reaches one of the largest wine groups in Italy

Police operation links Sicilian winery to Cosa Nostra

An "anti-mafia" operation seized more than € 70 million in assets - including vineyards and buildings - that were conditionally confiscated from the Sicilian winery Feudo Arancio. The winery is part of the Gruppo Mezzacorona, based in Trentino, in northern Italy, and is one of the largest wine groups in the country, with more than 900 hectares of vineyards in the Sicilian provinces of Agrigento and Ragusa. They vehemently denied any wrongdoing.

The Guardia di Finanza of Trento - an Italian agency of the ministry of the economy - has investigated possible money laundering links between Mezzacorona and mafia group Cosa Nostra . The seizure was ordered by the Court of Trento after an appeal from a prosecutor who was investigating " the infiltration of organized crime into the economy of Trentino " .

The Mezzacorona group refuted the allegations : " The Mezzacorona group has always fulfilled its entrepreneurial commitment in a correct and serious manner and to protect its members, employees and shareholders ", said in a statement, which urged the judicial authority to resolve the problem as quickly as possible possible to protect the income and work of 1,600 members, 480 shareholders and 500 employees.

“All operations in the vineyards and commercial activities at Feudo Arancio continue as normal. The Gruppo Mezzacorona asks the judicial authority with the maximum speed that the clarification is m feit them as quickly as possible "

[aleksandrored]

20 arrests as racket victims report Palermo extortion

Business owners break wall of silence after years of paying out

PALERMO, OCT 13 - Italian police on Tuesday made 20 arrests after protection racket victims in Palermo spoke out after years of silence and reported their mafia extortionists.
Twenty bosses, clan members and Mob enforcers were arrested by Carabineri after shopkeepers in Palermo's Borgo Vecchio district rebelled against the extortion rackets.
They have been placed under investigation for mafia association, conspiracy to traffic drugs, rob and received stolen goods, attempted aggravated homicide, extortion and damages.
Police have established more than 20 episodes of extortion by the Cosa Nostra racketeers, judicial sources said.
Some 13 of these cases were uncovered after victims spoke out, police said.
In a further five cases victims said they had been forced to pay the Mob after being called in by investigators.
Police said breaking the wall of silence was an "extraordinary result" in a district where fear had allowed Cosa Nostra to enforce a blanket control of businesses.
Most of the arrests were among the Borgo Vecchio mafia clan but the 'mandamento' of Porta Nuova was also implicated, police said.
Among those arrested was the acting boss of the Borrgo Vecchio clan, Angelo Monti.
Monti was released from prison three years ago and had gone back to his lead role in the family, police said. (ANSA).