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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.
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