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Camorra mafia boss arrested
Posted By Mardy Shualy
Monday, November 2, 2009 - 2:09 PM
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Yesterday, Italian police arrested Pasquale Russo, the boss of the powerful Camorra mafia syndicate. Russo was arrested alongside his brother, Carmine, and on Saturday the police arrested a third member of the family, Salvatore Russo.
The Camorra's main business is in drug sales, primarily heroin and cocaine, and including everything from ecstasy to hashish. Local police say the business is worth half a million Euros a day; investigators say it's Europe's largest drug market. The Camorra is one of the four largest Italian mafias involved in protection rackets, which draw in about another 250 million Euros a day. Camorra associates have also been connected with crimes ranging from billion-dollar cigarette smuggling operations to illegal sewage dumping. And all of the Camorra's operations have been accompanied by violence; the mafia is allegedly responsible for more than 3600 murders, including an outdoor execution caught on closed-circuit cameras -- Italian prosecutors went so far as to publicly release the video to draw attention to the case.
Angelino Alfano, Italy's justice minister, has described the recent round of arrests as an "extremely hard blow" to the Camorra. But there's reason not to write the syndicate off just yet -- as the Camorra men have been arrested, equally-violent Godmothers have taken their places.
Photo: GIULIO PISCITELLI/AFP/Getty Images
There's a gripping, if graphic, (fictional) portrayal of a neighborhood under the protection of the Camorra syndicate in the Italian film "Gomorra" if that piques anyone's interest.
There's also a fairly good nonfiction book of the same name by Roberto Saviono. As evidence of its value, the Camorra wants him dead now.
I wonder how much of that heroin is from Afghanistan?
It's also important to note that the Camorra is a big reason behind the drama that's happening off Somalia. They were the ones dumping nuclear waste off the Somalian, prompting fisherman (now turned pirates) to patrol the waters in the first place.
wrong the book Gomorrah is by Roberto Sviano and it's non fiction.
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