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40. Mafia hurt by asset seizures but still too strong to beat

Sun Sep 8, 2013, 06:19 AM

Sep 2013

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/08/us-italy-mafia-camorra-idUSBRE98703V20130908

(Reuters) - Syringes litter the floor of an abandoned school in the crime-plagued Scampia district of northern Naples, alongside tin foil used for crack cocaine, a filthy mattress and piles of clothing.

What was once a classroom is smeared with human waste and Coca Cola bottles filled with urine are stacked in one corner, alongside an abandoned children's toy.

For years desperate addicts lived in the school, where the local mafia or Camorra sold hard drugs from a counter.

Now the building is part of a nationwide campaign to use confiscated gang assets to persuade youths from sink estates like Scampia that there is an alternative to drugs and working for the mob.

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