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A suspected mafioso is injured in a shooting in Italy.
80 shots are fired in the middle of the city center.
The police manage to make several arrests.
Naples – A violent shooting in Italy is currently causing a stir.
Almost 80 shots were fired in the center of the metropolis of Naples on Wednesday evening (January 17th).
The suspected target: 18-year-old Nicola Giuseppe Moffa - he is said to have connections to the Contini clan, which belongs to the Italian Mafia Camorra.
Most recently, the “Van Gogh Boss”, also a Camorra member, was on trial.
There was a violent shooting in Italy.
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Violent shooting in Italy: two people are seriously injured
The young man sustained serious but non-life-threatening injuries in the shooting in Naples,
L'Unione Sarda
reported .
A 68-year-old passerby was also seriously injured in the shooting.
She had to undergo emergency surgery in the hospital.
The Italian newspaper
La Repubblica
spoke of “civil war-like” scenes, the local newspaper
Corriere del Mezzogiorno
of an “ambush” that occurred around 7 p.m. between Corso Arnaldo Lucci and Via Toscano.
After shooting at the 18-year-old, the attackers are said to have fired more shots to intimidate him.
La Repubblica
speculated that the attack may also have happened out of revenge, given a shooting a few days ago in Naples .
The special police forces finally arrested five people from whom several weapons were confiscated.
According to the newspaper, possibly even a machine gun.
The investigation in Italy's third largest city is ongoing.
Those arrested now have to answer for illegal possession of weapons and receiving stolen property.
Shooting in the middle of Naples city center: “We live in fear”
It is still unclear who wanted to meet Moffa.
The 18-year-old is known to the police and may be connected to previous robberies in the city center.
According to the
Ansa
news agency, this is suggested by an old gunshot wound.
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“They were shooting wildly at innocent people who were shopping,” Gianfranco Wurzburger, president of Assogioca, told
La Repubblica
.
The organization helps children and young people find ways out of crime.
Wurzburger's daughter heard the shots.
“Dozens of bullets, you’ve never seen anything like that.
We live in fear,” he said.
“Eighty shots were fired in the city center”: shootout in the Italian metropolis
“Eighty shots were fired in the city center, with the real risk of killing innocent people,”
Ansa
quoted representatives of the Anti-Camorra Committee as saying.
The committee has been calling for stricter regulations on the ownership of weapons for months.
“You cannot move freely because you are so afraid of becoming the focus of shootings,” it continued.
Germany has also been infiltrated by the Italian mafia for years.
In contrast, a mafioso's year-long escape ended with an arrest.