Response needed to mafia arrogance says commission

(see related) (ANSA) - ROME, SEP 11 - President of the parliamentary antimafia commission Chiara Colosimo said Monday she hoped for a unanimous response "from our best people" following the latest episode of gun violence in the Camorra mafia-ridden town of Caivano denounced by parish priest Don Maurizio Patriciello earlier in the day.
    "I spoke to Don Patriciello again tonight. I often speak to him so that he does not feel alone," said the senator for Premier Giorgia Meloni's Brothers of Italy (FdI) party on X.
    "Certainly he has the faith that can do more than any man. But in these hours after the umpteenth demonstration of mafia arrogance that I strongly condemn, I feel the moral duty to declare him all my affection and closeness," she continued.
    "I hope for a unanimous response from our best people, there certainly is and will be a response from the parliamentary antimafia commission," concluded Colosimo.
    On Sunday night masked gunmen rode through the impoverished neighourhood of Parco Verde, the scene of the recent alleged gang rape of two cousins aged 10 and 12, firing indiscriminately.
    In total 19 shots were fired, but no one was hurt.
    On Monday Don Patriciello told Rtl 102.5 it was the third episode of its kind since Meloni visited Caivano on August 31.
    "The neighbourhood is terrified, it takes little to die from a stray bullet," said the priest.
    "In recent days the police have been doing their utmost, but these people drive at the speed of light, everything happens so quickly and then they run off," he continued.
    "I read it as a challenge to the State. It is as if they wanted to say that they are not afraid of the State, this is the key to interpretation," concluded Don Patriciello. (ANSA).