Word: camorra
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...city's major crimes that have been making headlines. Unemployment hovers around 20%, and the murder rate is consistently among the highest in Europe. There were 55 homicides in the first two months of the year--many of them victims of warring factions of the organized-crime syndicate the Camorra. The only good news is that a temporary truce had, as of the day of my arrival, resulted in two murderless weeks...
...Adding to the unease are picturesque streets in the historic center littered with trash as well as warnings from locals not to go out at night when purse snatchers and gang members reign. Celiento does not believe that either the city's habitual skirting of the law or the Camorra culture of death is rooted in the economic hardship. "A culture of civility comes before any economic question," says Celiento. "It must start in families. The first time I find my son without a helmet, I'll simply take his moped away...
Still, by day's end, we are reminded again that the Mob here is indeed more than folklore. The Camorra truce has been broken, and three people have been gunned down in a six-hour span. In at least one of the hits, two killers arrived by scooter. Both were wearing helmets...
...should have helped restore peace to the city, but instead unleashed mayhem. On Jan. 21, police in the drug-infested Secondigliano neighborhood on the outskirts of Naples arrested Cosimo Di Lauro, a ponytailed 31-year-old suspected of being the new kingpin of a faction of the Camorra, the notorious Naples Mob. Di Lauro was wanted on suspicion of drug trafficking and ordering multiple homicides, including the Jan. 15 broad-daylight slaying of the 47-year-old mother of a member of a rival group. But as news of the bust spread, a crowd of about 400, mostly women, poured...
...them." While U.S. officials emphatically deny that such contracts have been promised, Yugoimport was back in Baghdad, reopening the offices that just last year were peddling arms to Saddam. - By Andrew Purvis and Dejan Anastasijevic/Belgrade NAPLES CAN'T REFUSE ITALY Several Naples city councilmen blamed the Camorra organized-crime syndicate for a garbage-collection stoppage last week, which resulted in giant trash heaps on the streets and reeking dumpsters being set ablaze. After public-waste dumps reached capacity, about 20,000 tons of rubbish piled up around the city. The fires forced the closures of schools and outdoor markets...