Al Jazeera report on Roberto Saviano and the Camorra

I produced this story for Al Jazeera. After months of bidding, we were finally granted interview with Roberto Saviano, the "Italian Salman Rushdie" who was forced to go into hiding and live under police protection after exposing the business empire of the Camorra, the neapolitan mafia, in his bestselling book "Gomorrah". We also visited the neighbourhood of Scampia, the Camorra stronghold in the outskirts of Naples, and secretly filmed the open-air drug dealing activity it is famous for. Nazanine Moshiri reports.

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[carmelidia]

great story, i just finished reading the book

[vmdiver]

Also, I wanna say that for people of this world who have attended school and have studied the history of how Italy and Germany were the last two european countries to become united ....everyone knew that NAPOLI or NEAPLE was the capital of South Italy Kingdom known as "Kingdom of the Two Sicilys"...so my dear....no need to say Souther Italy as if you were to let people understand that Northern Italy is not as in the shit as the south. North is home to the Criminal Business minds!

[DonCarina]

I'd love to meet Roberto Saviano, a true hero fighting for change in Naples.

Ron Russell

Author of "Don Carina" - WWII Naples Mafia

[GuguCapa]

@carmelidia OH thats good the same... i love Israel, such a beautiful country and language.

[carmelidia]

@GuguCapa nope, Israeli

[GuguCapa]

@carmelidia You're American?????????? :) lol

[DiscoInferno78]

@Antonio3467 Autocritica la devi fare te ed i tuoi coinquilini padani, Lega compresa! Ci fate a mezzo con le mafie e ne volete uscire puliti.. Ma vaff

[Antonio3467]

Sie, al Nord Italia son tutti criminali come nò, ma facciamo un pò di autocritica... dove sono gli "headquarters" della mafia? Si ora viemmi a dire che fanno affari anche al Nord, i rifiuti tossici arrivano dal nord (anche perchè al Sud dove sono le industrie che li producono??)

[nanidimerd]

mafia = international problem.

ma finirà presto...

[beccateviquesta]

trashy naples

[geppebrillo]

Gomorra is one of the biblic sin cities (Sodoma e Gomorra) destroyed by God.

The name Camorra as N'drangheta, as Mafia, has an arcaic origin that I don't know (I read that the origin of camorra was due as reaction to the Napoleonic invasion of Naples, but i'm not sure of that).

[rubasub]

Thanks, there's obviously stuff about Italian history that's new to me.

I wanna see this film but why is it called Gomorra and not Camorra?