Editing Camorra (section)

==Activities==
Compared to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sicily Sicilian] [[Mafia|Cosa Nostra]]'s pyramidal structure, the Camorra has more of a 'horizontal' than a 'vertical' structure. As a result, individual Camorra clans act independently of each other, and are more prone to feuding among themselves. This however makes the Camorra more resilient when top leaders are arrested or killed, with new clans and organizations germinating out of the stumps of old ones. As the [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Galasso_clan&action=edit&redlink=1 Galasso clan] boss [[Pasquale Galasso]] once stated in court; ''"Campania can get worse because you could cut into a Camorra group, but another ten could emerge from it."''<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-behan184_9-0">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camorra#cite_note-behan184-9 [9]]</sup>

In the 1970s and 1980s [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raffaele_Cutolo Raffaele Cutolo] made an attempt to unify the Camorra families in the manner of the Sicilian Mafia, by forming the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuova_Camorra_Organizzata New Organized Camorra] (''Nuova Camorra Organizzata'' or ''NCO''), but this proved unsuccessful. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drive-by_shooting Drive-by shootings] by ''camorristi'' often result in casualties among the local population, but such episodes are often difficult to investigate because of widespread [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omert%C3%A0 Omertà] (code of silence). According to a report from Confesercenti, the second-largest Italian Trade Organization, published on October 22, 2007 in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corriere_della_Sera Corriere della Sera], the Camorra control the milk and fish industries, the coffee trade, and over 2,500 bakeries in the city.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-10">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camorra#cite_note-10 [10]]</sup>

In 1983, Italian law enforcement estimated that there were only about a dozen Camorra clans. By 1987, the number had risen to 26, and in the following year, a report from the Naples flying squad reported their number as 32. Currently it is estimated there are about 111 Camorra clans and over 6,700 members in Naples and the immediate surroundings.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-behan191_11-0">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camorra#cite_note-behan191-11 [11]]</sup> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto_Saviano Roberto Saviano], an investigative journalist and author of ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gomorrah_%28book%29 Gomorra]'', an exposé of the activities of the Camorra, says that this sprawling network of Camorra clans now dwarfs the [[Mafia|Sicilian Mafia]], the [['Ndrangheta]] and southern Italy's other organised gangs, in numbers, in economic power and in ruthless violence.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-12">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camorra#cite_note-12 [12]]</sup>

In 2004 and 2005 the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Di_Lauro_clan Di Lauro clan] and the so-called [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scissionisti_di_Secondigliano Scissionisti] fought a bloody feud which came to be known in the Italian press as the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scampia_feud Scampia feud]. The result was over 100 street-killings. At the end of October 2006 a new series of murders took place in Naples between 20 competing clans, that cost 12 lives in 10 days. The Interior Minister [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuliano_Amato Giuliano Amato] decided to send more than 1,000 extra police and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carabinieri Carabinieri] to Naples to fight crime and protect tourists.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-13">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camorra#cite_note-13 [13]]</sup> It didn't help much – in the following year there were over 120 murders.<sup class="Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed citation needed]'']</sup>

In recent years, various Camorra clans have been forming alliances with [[Nigerian drug gangs]] and the [[Albanian Mafia]], even going so far as to intermarry.<sup class="Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed citation needed]'']</sup> For instance, [[Augusto La Torre]], the former [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=La_Torre_clan&action=edit&redlink=1 La Torre clan] boss who became a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentito pentito], is married to an Albanian woman. It should also be noted that the first foreign pentito, a Tunisian, admitted to being involved with the feared [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casalesi_clan Casalesi clan] of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casal_di_Principe Casal di Principe]. The first town that the Camorra gave over to be completely governed by a foreign clan was [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castel_Volturno Castel Volturno], which was given to the Rapaces, clans from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagos Lagos] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benin_City Benin City] in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria Nigeria]. This allowed them to traffic cocaine and women indentured to sex slavery before sending them across the whole of Europe.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-14">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camorra#cite_note-14 [14]]</sup>