Caivano model for other areas too says Mantovano

(ANSA) - ROME, SEP 7 - The government's 'Caivano model' for cleaning up and redeveloping the high-crime town near Naples where two cousins aged 10 and 12 were recently raped by youths will be valid for other areas dogged by mafia, drugs and teen gangs, Cabinet Secretary Alfredo Mantovano told a press conference after the cabinet passed a package against youth crime Thursday.
    "The Caivano decree takes its cue from the presence of the Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and other ministers a week ago in that place after the terrible episode that shocked Italy and intends to identify a model of intervention that will apply immediately to Caivano and then, when conditions are right, to other degraded areas in the country," he said.
    "It is a module that takes into consideration not only the scourge of juvenile crime, but also the offer of something positive and alternative to the street, to drug dealing.
    "Measures largely urged by magistrates and police forces that we met there, from Don (Fabrizio) Patriciello (an anti-drugs priest) to others". (ANSA).