Arzano. The 167 clan lands on Tik Tok and attacks the repentants Pasquale and Pietro Cristiano, defining the collaboration with the State as “a common passion to sing”.
Posting the singer's photo Pino Franzese and Cristiano which, according to the statements made by the repentant himself, would have been sponsored and financed by the latter. Joseph Monfregolo, instead, defined in the profile called “ArzanoClan167”, “the only real man who at least does jail quietly and silently”.
For a few days now, local gangs have been having a field day on the popular social network. Alliances announced. Ostentatious leadership. And subliminal messages like those that accuse Pasquale Pikstik of having "sang his most faithful Luigi Piscopo and Vincenzo Marino oh fool”.
Post after post, the Arzano gang has found its new means of communication. Fast, instantaneous, and completely uncontrollable, as confirmed by informants, many members, even from prison, use smartphones to create fake profiles to stay in touch with the outside world.
The messages and videos, often even distributed from prisons, are intended to manipulate criminal dynamics online, despite the risk of providing investigators with clues to understanding the balance of power within the clans. Times change, and so do criminal traditions, which, as in the Arzano case, are not above publishing moments of private parties, street parties, and meetings with affiliates and "guests of honor," lending a significant hand to law enforcement in identifying individuals.
Even more striking is what happened on June 6, 2021, in the center of Arzano crossed by a parade of supercars, led by a red Ferrari Portofino Pasquale Cristiano, considered at that time one of the leaders of the 167 clan.
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At that time the boss was under house arrest and was authorized by the judge to participate only in the religious function. But he decided to do things in a big way by also invading social media, with videos published on Instagram and the party was enlivened by the notes of the neo melodic Franzese. But Giuseppe Monfregolo even outdid himself by being interviewed by the program broadcast on Italy One, The Hyenas.
It is precisely by analyzing these scenes that the anti-Camorra prosecutor Julian Caputo, in the pages of the request for a precautionary injunction that eradicated the Arzano cartel, writes: "Social media have now become a typical form of communication, routinely used by organized crime to assert their lifestyles and assert their presence, not just through territorial control in the strict sense."
Meanwhile, the criminal danger in Arzano is not at all averted despite the arrests. After the excellent releases of Angelo Gambino, Salvatore Romano and Giosuè Belgiorno, the clan is trying to reorganize itself and provide new leadership to manage drug dealing areas and pseudo recreational clubs.
Carmine Longhi
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