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4 unusual facts about Camorra


2004–05 S.S.C. Napoli season

The clubs' burst back into life provided a positive boost in the midst of the Camorra wars affecting the city during the course of the season.

Camorra

The Italian police are coordinating their efforts with Europol at the European level as well as Interpol to conduct special operations against the Camorra.

Eugénie Fougère

While performing at the Salone Margherita a café-chantant in Naples (Italy) in 1902, she contacted Camorra boss Enrico Alfano to ask for help in returning some of her missing jewelry.

Gigi D'Alessio

In a late 2008 interview with Italian Vanity Fair, D'Alessio says that at the beginning of his career from 1992-1997 as his fame grew around Napoli, members of various Camorra clans would threaten him to sing at their parties and other festive gatherings.


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In October 2000, the Italian Parliament approved the findings of a commission which studied activities in Campania by the Camorra, which had been profiting from illegal waste management activities.

Maresca

Pupetta Maresca (born 1935), aka Pupetta (Little Doll), a former beauty queen and a well-known figure in the Camorra

Marion Grasby

Grasby's highlights in the series include winning a celebrity chef challenge against Movida’s Frank Camorra and being singled out by Heston Blumenthal as the best performer during a MasterChef challenge in the UK.

Umberto Ammaturo

In 1965, the handsome Ammaturo met Pupetta Maresca a former beauty queen who had made international headlines in the 1950s when she killed in revenge the murderer of her husband, a Camorra boss named Pasquale Simonetti.

Vincenzo Licciardi

An anti-Camorra raid was also undertaken by the Guardia di Finanza in Naples and the surrounding town of Frosinone, who seized property, commercial companies, shares of stakes in companies, apartments, buildings, land, cars, motorcycles, with a total estimated value of 300 million euros.


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