Maranza ready to "invade" Naples

There is apprehension ahead of Napoli-Inter, scheduled for Saturday at 18 pm at the Maradona stadium in Naples.

But it is not a sporting concern but a public order one because the so-called “Maranza” groups, young people from northern Italy dressed as trappers and with a tendency to create fights and brawls, have launched a challenge on TikTok against young people from the South, especially Neapolitans, on the occasion of the match.

In the videos posted they announce with provocative and challenging tones: "South prepare, on March 1st we are coming and it will be war. Everyone with the Frecciarossa, first stop Rome, then Naples and Sicily... We will make a mess and everyone will run away... because those from the South speak badly of us from the North".

The police have already prepared a plan for a blanket check of the train stations in Campania starting tomorrow. Also because the responses on social media from some young people from the south were not long in coming.

In truth, there are already video montages made by Neapolitans and southerners in the North that show the "Friendly Treatment" they reserve for the Maranza. But there are also disturbing social responses circulating such as: "Stamm tutt pronti...ve scassammo, Maranza, ve facimme capi' comm'e' 'o sistema"

Maranza, the challenge starts from Turin

Turin is one of the focal points of the alleged 'challenge', launched on social media, with the threat of invading Southern Italy to start street fights. For a few days now, a video has been going viral on social media in which a young, very well-known Turin streamer says that "we are calling all the 'Maranza' that there are in Italy to all go down to the South together". "To all those from the South who get excited saying 'we have this' (here he mimes the gesture of pulling the trigger of a firearm – ed.) we respond that it's the stuff of a movie.

Real life is different. Totò Riina left us years ago. We will show you real life. If you go up north we will steal your "telephone". We will show you real life, not movies and fantasies". The author is a 24 year old of Moroccan origins.

He arrived in Turin as a child and lived in the Barriera di Milano neighborhood. Since 2019 he has been making videos with provocations and pranks.

Borrelli's concern: "I alerted the police"

The Green Party MP, Francesco Emilio Borrelli, also intervened on the matter: "I have alerted the local and national authorities because regardless of the veracity or otherwise of these disturbing social challenges, a very heavy climate is being created around this match. A climate that could lead, given the premises, to violent and guerrilla actions that must absolutely be avoided with a greater presence of law enforcement officers.

Unfortunately these wretched 'maranza' groups have fanned the flames with these 'challenges' of shame increasingly present on Tiktok. We need to see if some fanatic will really descend on Naples on Saturday with the intent of creating clashes. A madness that marks an even lower step reached by our social system”.