Children in Naples used in military operations of the clan

Camorra, child 6 years old when his father was hiding weapons searches

This is what emerges, according to the newspaper Il Mattino, the interception in the order that resulted in prison five members of the clan Ascione-Papale. The small would have even handled a Kalashnikov, and when the father asks him what the noise of the Russian machine gun, the little happy screams: "Ta-ta-ta-ta" and mimes the gesture of taking aim

He was only 6 years old when, in 2009, was hiding weapons of his father to the police: the child, as is clear from eavesdroppers in the order that resulted in prison five members of the clan Ascione-Papale, took care to hide the guns in the house when There were searches.

In a dialogue, reported by the newspaper "Il Mattino" shows that even the small wielding a Kalashnikov, and when the father asks him what the noise of the Russian machine gun, the little happy screams: "Ta-ta-ta-ta" and mimics the act of taking aim. The mother, showing on the one hand concerned, on the other "proud" of the fact that although his son so much cunning little monsters already in the sight of the soldiers of the Force, tells what the child during an interview in carcere.Secondo combines the findings , it would seem that the child had had the "brilliant" idea of ​​mixing his toy guns with the real ones mom and dad and he did it to protect the mother and avoid being arrested.

One of the recipients of the order of remand was caught in Fuengirola, southern Spain: This is the amount of the clan Ascione-Papale: ran the 'cash' and the common organization provided for the payment of salaries in favor of prisoners and their families. Two of the suspects was challenged extortion against a supermarket in Herculaneum, whose owner was forced to pay a sum of money as a bribe for the Easter holidays 2008.

Children in Naples are often used in military operations of the clan or otherwise in the "system Camorra." It is clear from many investigations of the DDA, carabinieri, police and Guardia di Finanza, which often have documented the use of children as lookouts or transporters of weapons. They are the new "muschilli" and the principle is always the same as thirty years ago: the judicial consequences for a minor are much less severe if found to be in possession of weapons or drugs and then the Camorra prefer to transfer the risk on kids.

'SO' enlist WE BOYS '- The mechanism explains it well a seventeen year old girl in the area between Miano and Secondigliano that has seen many friends rallied to the clan and even his brothers. It 'was interviewed by the shoulders and anonymously not only because it is a minor but especially to protect her, because her way of talking "maverick" with respect to the environment which is already forced to attend more than once put her into trouble. The picture that describes is chilling: the clans use kids to carry weapons, hide and even use them without any qualms. One of the tasks ever entrusted to minors is just to take care of armories: clean up the "tools" (in the jargon are guns) lead them in unthinkable places and then go get them when you need them. "It depends ... if you are from so-called ability of trust may also hold the proceeds of the squares of drug dealing; but if there is a wrong account, even if they have nothing to do are beaten as if they were adults. "

A PRICE LIST (EVEN TO KILL) - then lists a price list that resists and adapts to any crisis: "The gains are contingent on the streets of drug dealing. The weekly budget can go from 1,500 €, and sometimes even 3 thousand to 2 thousand a drug dealer, while a pole earns about € 150 per day. Who holds the weapons gain more responsibility is required because, who does the cashier 5/600 € per week but still depends on how much you sell drugs ". And to kill? "Well .. that depends on the person you're going to kill. It 'clear that the price is different if you have to kill a guy with a square of dealing or a boss opponent. "

Do you really think that they can get to do this kind of thing to kids? "Yes Definitely. " With the same detachment imposed by early experience and a lived too thick for his age adds that the kids who become killers usually take drugs: "A person with a brain, I say intelligence, does not have the power to remove the life of someone who does not even know, of which he knows nothing and that they did only see in a photograph. They are the ones who have nothing to lose but did not understand anything. The larger ones are risking their lives and jail for children. "

YOUNG ARMED - Meanwhile scroll through the images shot by the police on behalf of the DDA pm in Naples during the last war of the Camorra between so-called 'shot' and 'splitters' Camorra gangs that control millions in profits. The figures with the face obscured are all minors. As soldiers they spend their arms, clean, inspect, are in the trenches. Families often if they are not accomplices are silent. A silent assent that sounds like a sentence. "Sometimes it's the family that starts them or exploits them, in other cases, the kids who are living in very poor families and degraded environments, are fascinated by these characters of organized crime," says Gina Bonsangue, one of the most social workers qualified and active in Naples. His experience is formed in the so-called difficult neighborhoods, such as Health, where children are many, pervasive crime and the resignation of the good people tenacious. "Children are being paid and the money they bring home contributing to the family budget. - Concludes Gina - are stolen childhoods, rather I speak of child abuse in these cases because they let a minor work, in addition to the limits of the law, is an abuse and violence. "