Camorra, 'The Secondigliano Alliance had its hands on the city and had the San Giovanni Bosco hospital as its operational base'

A “mafia cartel that pervasively controls criminal activities in the entire metropolitan area of ​​Naples”, a “camorra that has its hands on the city”. This is how the Naples prosecutor Giovanni Melillo defined it the Secondigliano Alliance, criminal cartel on which the investigations of the Naples DDA have focused, culminating in over 120 arrests. "This mafia cartel - Melillo explained - controls in a pervasive manner the complex of criminal activities that take place in the territory, it has a federal structure, each group is endowed with wide margins of organizational and operational autonomy, but at the same time there is a common directive function to which decisions on the most important issues are entrusted". The Secondigliano Alliance, Melillo added, "resorts only in extreme cases to murder, exerts suffocating extortionate pressure on every type of commercial activity, controls directly or through front men an impressive number of business activities in the most disparate sectors. We have documented the mafia control of the health facility of the San Giovanni Bosco hospital in Naples which was the headquarters of the mafia organization. 'The Contini clan, in particular, "controlled every aspect – Melillo explained – of the hospital's functioning, starting from supplies and even union relations passed through Camorra intermediation". San Giovanni Bosco had become an "indispensable logistical base for the clan", Melillo said.
"The mafia control of the functioning of the San Giovanni Bosco hospital was achieved through the participation of health workers, sometimes induced by fear and sometimes by the coincidence of interests. It was also known to other organizations. There are collaborators of justice who have said that the other clans, when they needed illegal services, did nothing but turn to the men of the Contini clan. The judge's pages describe an alarming system, as alarming is the picture that emerges from the ongoing investigations. From the point of view - the prosecutor of Naples underlined - the facts relating to this precautionary measure stop in 2016, the investigations relating to subsequent activities are still ongoing and therefore confidential".