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1.13 Roberto Saviano fights the Camorra
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In 2006 Roberto Saviano published a book which opened the world’s eyes to the violence and devastation caused by the Neapolitan Camorra.
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In this episode of Our Thing we follow Saviano through Naples, the city of his birth, to see what the reality of living under organized crime looks like. For years he independently researched the Camorra from this angle – not by following police or developing informants within the clans, but by taking the ordinary jobs offered by clan-affiliated businesses. We’ll hear what Roberto Saviano has to say about the port of Naples, about Italy’s Camorra controlled fashion industry, about a drug feud which claimed 100 lives in a year, and a thriving Camorra business in illegal waste dumping that has made Campania, once a beautiful Italian countryside like any other, into a cancerous and unsafe waste heap identified in medical literature as the “triangle of death”.
Saviano used everything he knew to write “Gamorrah” – a book which was initially so misunderstood by local Camorra bosses that they gave it to each other as gifts. Soon after however, the international anger which grew as readers around the world learned about what was happening in Naples caused media and government attention to fall on the clans in a very undesirable way. Saviano was marked for death.
Now he lives in hiding. Famed artists and activists sing his praises but he has no friends. His family were all forced to move. He lives under armed guard, planning every movement three days in advance. He’s either speaking in front of a thousand people or to himself in a darkened room. All his life he will live knowing that in any city of the world some kid can suddenly pull out a gun and start firing.
Roberto Saviano knows what it means to fight organized crime. Buy his book.
Roberto Saviano: My Life under Armed Guard
Roberto Saviano: Frontline interview
The Atlantic.com – Hunted by the Mob
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