Camorra

But there are several different mafias that are involved here.

There is the Camorra, which is the southern Italian mob.

There is the...

And I'm forgetting the name of the families, but the...

Give me my fucking money.

Yeah.

The amount of people, it's like, you know, the head of Italian intelligence is like, where's my fucking money? The head of the Camorra gang is like, where's my fucking money? Six foot four gorilla, Bishop Barsic is head of the Vatican Bank is like, you better not ask me for money.

You know, and that's the thing.

As he wrote and puffed at his cigar, I noticed a scar on his face, a deep furrow running from the lobe of his ear to his mouth.

That, I knew, was a brand set upon him by the Camorra.

I sat and smoked and sipped slowly for several minutes, cursing him inwardly more for his presence than for his evident look of the Malavita.

At last he went out to ask the barkeeper for a stamp.

I may add that I have been rather closely associated with Inspector O'Connor of the Central Office on a number of cases, so that I think we can trust each other.

Would you mind telling me what you know about it, if I promise you that I too have something to reveal? The Lieutenant leaned back and watched Kennedy closely without seeming to do so.

When I was in Italy last year, he replied at length, I did a good deal of work in tracing up some Camorra suspects.

I had a tip about some of them to look up their records.

Turnaround, it means to grow locally, to be able to talk not just in the corridors and the European Parliament about politics, but also on the street.

It means to make Europe very concrete, like our regional councillor in Naples does when he says, OK, we had that building that was owned by Camorra, by the local mafia.

and we don't have the funds on how to make it available for society, for public good.

So let's ask for European projects.

Um, this is definitely probably going to make some waves.

Uh, obviously look, the engine get the, the Camorra, the Sicilian mafia is still very active in Italy.

Um, this is a big timer.

We don't know why he was killed.

Naples is obviously in the region of Campania.

There's a seaside town in Campania, Torri Annunziata.

If you know anything about the Camorra, which is, again, mostly my, at least, Italy knowledge.

I know a good amount about the Camorra.

One is G4S because the history of G4S as a company is really fascinating, like founded in Copenhagen at the turn of the 20th century as a night watchman group and has now proliferated to the point of where it's involved in kind of every level of securitization of our lives from the security guards in the supermarket wearing body cams to, you know, private security contractors, people on the southern coasts of Europe defending Fortress Europe.

And it's, I think, through G4S and how it has developed over the intervening 114 years, It tells an interesting story about securitization and what has happened in the intervening years in our daily lives that now, you know, you're going to get put in a Camorra hold on the floor of Sainsbury's because you forgot to pay for an apple.

And there's going to be grainy footage uploaded to YouTube like you're watching a version of Observe and Report.

Yeah, I've been thinking a lot about the American company Brinks at the moment for reasons which I shan't be disclosing at this current moment.

um uh but i wanted to shine a light really on the extent to which those powers around him had an impact on his his life his career his health his finances his mental health um because a bit like the the columbia squad at usa 94 you know what he was the pressure he was under from these various forces was just so incredible that the fact that he actually managed to play football, be successful, um, is almost incredible.

Um, so yes, I wanted to look at, you know, the role that the Hunter had in his career, um, the relationship between him and the Camorra, also the people who ran the clubs that he played for and why did he play so many games? Why did he play injured so much? So many things, the decisions that were made by him, for him, on his behalf with or without his knowledge that had a huge impact on his health and on the way his life turned out really.

It's amazing that he...

Forgive me for saying this.

Everything is about money.

Everything is about power and influence.

And people saw the value that he had in those spheres and I think sometimes he was just willing to look the other way and not think too much about the flip side of that coin and take the benefit himself and maybe not think too much about what the Junta was doing, what the Camorra were doing, what anybody else might be doing.

Probably the one group that he really turned on was FIFA.

The strange thing was that the word in the title barely appeared in the play itself.

Inside the script, the prisoners called their society by a Neapolitan name, the Camorra, after the famous prison gangs of Naples.

The word mafiosi was there only on the posters and the playbills.

It did not matter.

Yeah.

I mean, I guess she was the queen of the Camorra for-

Yeah

... decades, so I mean, I guess that would make sense.

Okay.

Oh, and by the way, it says here the Camorra clan of Castellamare di Stabia.

Separate from the Baltimore family, the D'Alessandro clan is a powerful Camorra organization that has controlled the area of Castellamare di Stabia near Naples for decades.

The clan has evolved from cigarette smuggling into a criminal holding involved in extortion, drug trafficking, and infiltration of public contracts, including a $200 Million Euro Hospital Project key figures Pasquale and Vincenzo, who are sentenced to 12 years in prison in 2026 for mafia association and other crimes.

So here you go.