Naples is among the top 10 most
dangerous cities in the world, the Sun said Tuesday.
The mafia-hit Campania capital was rated the most dangerous
city in western Europe.
The ranking included ISIS's Syrian capital Raqqa, Mogadishu
in Somalia, Perth in Australia and St Louis in the United
States.
The poll rated terror, drugs, murders, the presence of mafia
gangs, war, racial disorder and the violation of human rights.
Naples is the home of the Camorra mafia.
Naples Mayor Luigi de Magistris told ANSA: "It is a false,
superficial judgement, from someone who evidently never spent a
day of his life in Naples, a city full of problems but which is
not in the place in the world rankings where the Sun puts it".
Local theatre and film actor Fortunato Cerlino, who played
ruthless boss Pietro Savastano in the global TV Camorra crime
hit Gomorra, said "I'm not interested in commenting on a
tabloid. We know what kind of news they carry, only
sensationalism.
"I don't mean Naples is Switzerland, or that you don't risk
having your watch stolen in the street...but it's not an
international survey drafted by an authoritative research
agency, which would have made for interesting reading".
The dean of Naples Federico II University, Gaetano Manfredi,
said "we are the victims of the stupidity of many of the
rankings which show how strong the prejudice against Naples is".
Adoptive Neapolitan Sylvain Bellenger, the French head of the
Capodimonte Museum for the last two years, said: "I've been here
many times in my life, and at different times. Naples is not a
dangerous city, if anything it's chaotic, but it's a sweet
chaos".
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