The Chiaia neighborhood of Naples is under the grip of clans who are using machine guns to try to get their hands on the illegal parking racket by threatening the illegal parking attendants to obtain protection money from them.
The last raid took place on September 3rd in Riviera di Chiaia: four or five of them, riding high-powered motorbikes, went up and down, back and forth and had a machine gun clearly visible.
Thanks to the reconstruction of the Naples DDA, four of the five presumed material perpetrators of ambushes and criminal patrols have been identified.
Four arrests have been made, while the hunt is underway for the fifth accomplice, those from the Strazzullo group, who - according to investigators - represent a historic outpost of the Secondigliano Alliance (Miano side) in the alleys of Mergellina (known as the Torretta district), have been arrested.
Several episodes were examined: there were 4 spreads carried out in July, between via Cucca and vico Santa Maria della Neve, respectively historic strongholds of the Frizziero and Cirella clans.
In July itself, shots were fired at chest height at doors and windows on July 4th, 16th, 26th, and XNUMXth, but no one reported the incident. The goal was to target and punish illegal parking attendants who—from the Camorra's perspective—refuse to pay the protection money to the new bosses.
Also in July, in via Cucca an alleged illegal parking attendant is stopped. A gun is pointed at his head and he is ordered to leave the neighborhood.
On Via dei Fiorentini, three men attacked a third man to extort money from the illegal parking attendant. They brandished machine guns and pistols, and achieved their initial result, "expelling an entire family from the Chiaia neighborhood." Then came the shooting of the bosses' homes. And finally, the patrols.
“A situation that is throwing an entire neighborhood into terror and that could spread elsewhere. Before innocent people can be victims of stray bullets, before someone dies, the Police Chief and the Prefect must take every possible measure to stop this Camorra war.
"The state must show who's in charge and strip the clans of all power and tools of oppression and violence. Investigations, arrests, but above all, certainty of punishment. These incidents also demonstrate what we've been saying for some time: that illegal parking generates tens of millions of euros a year for criminals and that it directly or indirectly involves the Camorra clans," said Francesco Emilio Borrelli, MP for the Greens-Left alliance.
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