Pianura rebels against the Camorra with the words of Don Coluccia: he goes with a megaphone outside a drug dealing square and under the house of a prominent member of the Camorra. THE VIDEO

Pianura. Harsh words, full of anger but also of hope, those of Don Antonio Coluccia, the anti-racket and drug dealing priest who, after the events of Andrea Covelli and other young people kidnapped and killed, showed up in the Neapolitan neighborhood of Pianura to shout into a megaphone in an area considered to be drug dealing: "You are people who shoot, We are people who hope." reported by Napolitan.it. He went to via Napoli to Pianura under the house of a prominent member of the local criminal community, armed with a megaphone he spread the culture of non-violence.

Even if it's not South America and there are no drug cartels, even if it's not Los Angeles and Guatemalan gangs don't clash on the streets, in Pianura you can die at 27 after being tortured, disfigured, riddled with bullets and then thrown away like a garbage bag.

Sometimes all it takes is one look too many, a trespassing, even if only territorial and involuntary, a wrong friendship, an unwelcome kinship and you can end up tortured and killed. It is always the same scenario that has been repeated cyclically for decades in a continuous loop: first the Mele against the Pesce-Marfella, today the heirs of the latter, the Carillo-Perfetto, who clash with the Marsicano-Esposito for the control of Pianura, in the western outskirts of Naples.

“Full support for Don Coluccia and all those who do not bow their heads. The Camorra is a scenario that you only get used to if you decide to bury your head in the sand, because in reality you cannot and must not get used to this horror. On Friday we will be back in the square alongside the citizens of Pianura to demonstrate against the Camorra and the crime that is tearing the neighborhood and the city apart.

We will be here to shout out our anger together with the citizens. But the anger must always remain alive, a flame that must never go out or weaken, it must be the fire with which to burn a shame that has haunted us for decades.

Our cries must never stop because Andrea's death is not the problem, it is not the cause but the consequence of a phenomenon that only makes the news when there is shooting. Yet the Camorra is alive and well, and even more so when it is silent, because that is when it prospers and does golden business. For this reason we must be implacable." - declared the Regional Councilor of Europa Verde Francesco Emilio Borrelli.