Scampia
That was especially due to the Camorra crime syndicate, that took control of the "Vele" and turned them into their own space in which drug could be sold or hidden from the police.
Large metal gates on some of the walkways and stairs in the blocks of flats have been put there, not by the council, but by the Camorra itself, so they can be locked by drug pushers as they flee the police.
[2][3] With over 50% unemployment, the area had in fact a very high crime rate, with heroin (including its low-grade form, kobret[citation needed]) and cocaine sold, and used openly, in the streets.
In 2004 a bloody gang war erupted in the area, the so-called Scampia feud, between the Di Lauro family and a breakaway faction, the "secessionists".
[5][6] The death of an innocent woman, Gelsomina Verde, caused widespread public revulsion and led to a major crackdown by the authorities.
She was abducted, brutally beaten in an effort to get her to disclose the whereabouts of a gang member involved in the feud, and finally shot in the neck.
[7] Although most of the services are of a public nature (Municipality, Local Health Authority, UTB), even associations in the form of committees have taken root in the culture of the neighbourhood: for the house, for the felling of the Sails, for the LSU and for the Bros.
[8] Furthermore, on 3 January 2006, the Iervolino junta established "Napolinord", the urban transformation company with a share capital of 500 million euros.
[10] Moreover, in 2010 many military forces have been placed outside the subway station of "Piscinola" and also in the vicinity of the "Vele" in order to offer more security to the area.
[citation needed] Built as a result of Law 167, which was passed in 1962, the Sails of Scampia were designed by Franz Di Salvo.
He worked in collaboration with other architects, to design the District of Cesare Battisti Poggioreale, which represented the paradigm of a "new way of thinking" about social housing.
[citation needed] After years of continuous design experiments, the task of establishing a large apartment complex in Scampia was entrusted to the Cassa del Mezzogiorno.
The buildings were designed to provide subsistence-level dwellings: deliberately minimal, with many shared exterior spaces where life would take place.
[13] Things were made worse by the total lack of police presence, resulting in drug trafficking, illegal street racing, gangs, and fencing operations.
It publishes books printed on recycled paper with non-polluting ink having the license "Creative Commons" and produced from the bottom.
It is of course also a café that sells only integral and equal products, it has spaces used for musical showcases, photographic exhibitions and many other activities.
[24] Moreover, the homonym TV series Gomorrah (2014) was also based on the same book written by Roberto Saviano and it was directed by Stefano Sollima.
The music video made by the French rap duo PNL's single "Le Monde ou Rien" was recorded in and around the neighbourhood.
He describes through poetry the dreams and hopes of Scampia's adolescents, portraying a different view of living in this reality than that depicted by the media.
