Posted on 01/08/2009 3:18:52 PM PST by dynachrome
This landscape of change and fear has been shaped by a singular juxtaposition: One of Europe's biggest concentrations of African immigrants has risen in the heart of Camorra turf.
"After the shooting, my wife said: 'Let's pack and leave this place,' " said Nsangu "Sammi" Kagutta, a Tanzanian father of three who owns a nearby Internet center. "They were just poor people trying to get their daily bread. If it was about drugs, they shot the wrong people."
Most of the victims were illegal immigrant laborers, though one or two may have been low-level drug pushers, investigators say. The fusillade of 130 bullets was apparently an indiscriminate message from a Camorra clan aimed at terrifying its junior partners into obedience
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Gimme a sawbuck on the Africans.
I take the home team with the old veterans.
“father of three who owns a nearby Internet center.”
Nigerian scammers in Italy now? LOL
Home field advantage disappears within the next generation.
Now accepting Euros.
Some Italians apparently miffed because their $10 mill didn’t arrive.
One burp from the mountain and it won’t matter much.
True.
If they’re illegal why aren’t they being deported. When I was stationed there I saw the Italians were fairly strict about these things.
“If they’re illegal why aren’t they being deported.”
Seems to be a lot of confusion on that point in the US as well. Though it happens slowly, at some point a country surrenders its own identity when it fells to defend its borders.
what’s the point spread?
I put my money on the Mafia in this fight.
i’m not so sure.. it may be their home turf, but the Cosa Nostra in America was hardened by the tough life of the depression and crackdowns by the feds and infighting amongst themselves... The mafia in italy generally have their own respective territories they control and generally respect one another’s turf, and the governments through their various changes had never really cracked down too seriously on them. sadly i think they grew too comfortable and complacent, and may collapse with a whimper...
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