Arzano. Crime emergency: the Prefect of Naples Michele Di Bari calls a round table on public order and security. The mayor herself announced it Aruta in a statement after having branded the episodes as "physiological" and "endemic" thus downplaying the significance of the criminal events.
After the escalation of thefts that affected dozens of shopkeepers and citizens, the Prefect, given the alarm raised by journalists and citizens and received by the opposition councilors who had asked for an urgent city council, has called a round table on security for tomorrow, January 18, opening a focus on Arzano.
The meeting will be attended by the heads of the Carabinieri, the State Police, the Guardia di Finanza, the DiA, the Gico and the heads of the Naples and Naples North prosecutors' offices. The discussion will concern some problems related to the municipality, both from a security perspective and in terms of combating forms of illegality given that the municipal body has suffered three dissolutions for mafia conditioning in the last 10 years.
To ask for the intervention of the Prefect Anti-Camorra Committee for Legality, launched by Sandro Ruotolo, Paul Siani and the Bishop of Naples Domenico Battaglia. A singular but serious sequence of thefts that according to the journalist under escort Mimmo Rubio, could “hide” the attempt of the 167 clan (still well-established and active in the territory also with the presence of drug dealing areas) to put pressure on local traders and then guarantee them a “security policy” with the request for extortion. a different way of asking for the “pizzo” without making noise with bombs and direct threats”.
Escalation of thefts in Arzano to hide the request for protection money
Clan that would still be strong and invasive through the Monfregolo subgroup. Alarm also raised in the analysis of the Anti-Mafia Investigative Directorate in the latest half-yearly report where it certifies that, in particular, in the Municipality of arzano the Camorra group called remains operational those of the 167 of Arzano dedicated, primarily, to extortion carried out using mafia-style methods to the detriment of local entrepreneurs.
The association would be headed by Amato-Pagano clan and would have taken over the control of that territory from the Moccia clan after the murder of the referent of the latter organization, also committed in Arzano in a tanning center. The investigations would have revealed serious evidence of the interference of some members of the Amato-Pagano clan in some electoral consultations but also in attempted attacks, in Arzano, during the 2017 elections. Obviously, the spotlight on Acireale also on the management of funds relating to the PNRR.
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Article published on 17 January 2024 - 07:39