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".
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