Rione Sanità News

Rione Sanità: Fundraising for ambulances and emergency vehicles

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Naples, the lower part of Via Sanità is a drug dealing hub: two very young pushers with no criminal record arrested.

Carabinieri officers from the Sanità station have put an end to a drug dealing operation in a ground-floor apartment at number 108 Via Sanità, in the Stella district. The anti-drug operation, conducted overnight, led to a raid on a home where two young men, an 18-year-old and a 16-year-old, both with no criminal records, were...

Sanità District: The Fontanelle Cemetery has reopened. The Soccorso Napoli Sanità ODV association will be present.

Naples – The Fontanelle Cemetery reopens to the public and returns to being the beating heart of the Sanità district. The official ceremony marking the return to the city of one of its most significant sites from a historical, cultural, and identity perspective took place today, drawing widespread participation from residents, visitors, and...

Naples: Young gunmen arrested in the Sanità district.

Naples - The Naples Police Headquarters continues its extraordinary operations to combat the illegal circulation of weapons in the city's most crime-ridden neighborhoods. On Wednesday afternoon, State Police officers arrested three people in the Sanità district, found in possession of weapons and ammunition. In...

Naples, brother of Giogiò Cutolo's killer arrested. His mother's fury: "Speechless."

Naples - "I'm speechless." Daniela Di Maggio, mother of Giovan Battista Cutolo, the young musician killed in Naples on August 31, 2023, expressed bitterness and anger in her comments. Her reaction follows the news of the arrests for attempted murder of two minors, including...

Wild West at Sanità: Two baby hitmen jailed for attempted murder

Naples – A shower of lead, fired at eye level in the dead of night, in a square where defenseless residents were strolling. A veritable Camorra-style ambush, but involving young people. The State Police have closed the loop on the attempted murder that occurred last November 18th...

Wild West on Corso Umberto: Over half a century in prison for Emanuele Tufano's baby killers

The first judicial chapter in the death of Emanuele Tufano, the fifteen-year-old left on the pavement during an action-packed shootout on the streets of Naples, has ended with a flurry of convictions. The Juvenile Court judge has handed down sentences totaling more than half...

Sanità, 33-year-old man attempts to escape with drugs: arrested

He attempted to escape by speeding on his scooter, but was caught and stopped after a brief chase. This ended the escape of a 33-year-old Neapolitan man, arrested by State Police in the Sanità district on charges of illegal possession of narcotics. The incident occurred in...

Rione Sanità, GPS, algorithms, and bugs: How technology caught the clan's riders

The Sequino-Savarese clan headquarters in the Sanità district has been under constant digital surveillance, capable of mapping every movement and decrypting every whisper. This is what emerges from reading the more than 600 pages of the precautionary order that the other day led to the arrest of 22 clan members...

Naples, Checkmate to Illegal Building: 3.500-Square Meter Parking Lot Seized

Naples – An area as large as half a soccer field has been transformed into an open-air parking garage without any permit or environmental protection. This is what officers of the Naples Local Police discovered on Via Emilio Scaglione, where an operation by the IAES (Environmental Investigation and Social Emergency) unit led to the seizure...

Naples: A power vacuum in the Sanità district after the raid.

The order signed by investigating judge Simona Capasso, on the orders of the Naples Anti-Mafia Directorate (DDA), which dismantled the new Camorra system in the Sanità district, is not just a judicial act, but an intervention that decapitates the chain of command of one of the most strategic sectors of the Neapolitan criminal network. Simultaneously targeting...

Sanità District: The drug pact, the drug riders, and the week imposed on pushers.

In the maze of alleys in the Sanità district, the drug market didn't allow freelancers. You either paid protection money to sell, or you bought the goods exclusively from them. The precautionary order signed by investigating judge Simona Capasso clearly depicts the total dominance of the Savarese group, allied with the Mazzarellas...

Sanità, the "Piazza System": How the clans divided up the neighborhood. The 42 people under investigation.

Naples – It's not just a question of borders, but of breathing space. In the Sanità district, the "System" never sleeps and moves through the alleys with the precision of a company and the ferocity of a standing army. The latest precautionary measure, signed by investigating judge Simona Capasso, is a merciless x-ray of...

Vincenzo Brandi Arrested in the Durante Murder Case: He's Emanuele Tufano's Brother-in-Law

Naples - The starting point is clear: Emanuele Durante was shot around 6:18 PM on March 15, 2025, while he was riding in a black Smart car with his girlfriend on Via Santa Teresa degli Scalzi, heading toward Piazza Dante. About forty minutes after...

Naples, a family nightmare in Materdei: he assaults his partner and forces her to withdraw cash.

Naples – A spiral of violence fueled by financial demands culminated in a dead-of-night arrest. This is the outcome of the latest State Police operation in the Materdei neighborhood, where a 41-year-old man was arrested on serious charges of domestic violence, assault, and...

Shooting in the heart of Sanità: 21 holes in the road sign

Naples, 10:30 PM. Carabinieri officers from the Napoli Stella Company responded to Via Salita dello Scudillo, at number 41, following a report of gunshots in the heart of the Sanità district. Shots were fired at a municipal billboard. According to initial reports, unknown individuals fired several shots...

Wild West in the Sanità district, the nightmare of the feud returns: a car was shot overnight on Via Fontanelle.

Naples – The silence of the Sanità district was once again shattered by the sound of gunfire. It was 2:50 a.m. when the alarm went off in the oldest and most vibrant part of the neighborhood, on Via Fontanelle, just a few dozen meters from Piazzetta Totò, a symbol of cultural redemption but still...

Naples presents a €12 million project to revitalize Vergini-Sanità.

A €12,2 million investment to redesign the future of Vergini-Sanità. The Integrated Territorial Project, intended to transform one of the most distinctive and complex areas of Naples' historic center, was presented within the Church of Santa Maria Maddalena ai Cristallini. The project, overseen...

Naples: Drug courier caught in Materdei with 1,5 kilograms of hashish

Naples - Yesterday afternoon, a routine patrol led to a major drug bust in the Materdei neighborhood. Officers from the San Carlo-Arena Police Station, while patrolling Corso Amedeo di Savoia, noticed a man riding a scooter...

Naples, the hell of Piazza Cavour: the laundry of despair exposed in broad daylight.

Naples – In Piazza Cavour, the boundary between urban emergency and human collapse has long been crossed. What was once a vital city hub has been transformed, amid the almost resigned indifference of the authorities, into a "no man's land" where life tragically unfolds on the edge of...

Ambush in the Sanità district: one of the injured is a relative of the mafia boss Genidoni.

Naples - It was a veritable ambush that took place on the night between Saturday and Sunday in Vico Lammatari, in the Sanità district. Those targeted by hitmen were Raffaele Pillo, 19, a minor criminal, and his friend Antonio Martusciello, 20: both from the neighborhood,...