They call it the "day of receipt," run-down neighborhoods in the northern outskirts of Naples. This is the weekly event that the Kapo of the underworld mafia grant to widows and family members of detainees, looking for a job as a "lookout" or drug dealer for their children and grandchildren.
one time, these meetings were held in the former motel Agip, in Scampia, today's "employment centers" of the clan are camouflaged among the anonymous public housing apartments in Secondigliano. Some people asked the recommendation to move up a position in the hierarchy of the clan, and who relies on free legal advice and who, again, applying for unemployment benefits (criminal). Yes, because if business is bad and there is no possibility of selling the drug for the presence of law enforcement or a war in progress, membership entitles you to a bonus of € 500 per month. This phenomenon, which emerged in the investigation against Salvatore Di Lauro, eighteen year old heir to the notorious boss 'Ciruzzo' or Millionaire, "has gradually expanded to become an integral part of the gigantic mechanism" welfare "of the Camorra, which also provides procuring and preparation of homes for 'picciotti' and heads-square (between Secondigliano and Scampia there are at least 7 thousand apartments squats) and a sort of "family allowance" for married members, who earn more than the single.
Then there are the "holiday camp" of the clan, in Spain, where men of trust bosses go on vacation for free (very popular is the beach of Playa d'en Bossa, Ibiza) and the incentives that the 'staff' organization has, periodically, to the most deserving. Production awards that a racketeer, spied by the police, said that a friend, "What I know, suddenly you can buy ten watches, clocks give you ... then they give you the scooter suddenly ten thousand euro overalls and damage suits and shoes to everyone .... "
The real strength of the clan Secondigliano fact is and remains the overwhelming budget. In a wiretap, the acts of an investigation against the powerful godfather Raffaele Amato, the investigators heard an affiliate to persuade a young man to join the tour, "Take a good mesata arranged, brother. Then, Easter, Christmas, summer we take the double. But who busca thirteen thousand euro a month, twenty years, do you understand or not? What you have to buy the house, you have to buy furniture? Come with me ... always available ... brother and love us all. This is the first important thing you have to love ...».
(Published in "Panorama, January 2010)
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