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| Image: Carlo Hermann/Getty/AFP. |
The largely abandoned former seaside resort town of Castel Volturno north of Naples has been taken over by Nigerian gangs who run drug and prostitution rings.
The town has a total population of around 30,000 people, of which an estimated 20,000 are migrants, French news magazine L’Obsreports.
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| Castel Volturno |
Many of the Nigerian migrant women who walk the streets as prostitutes are underage, offering sexual favours for as little as 5 to 15 euros along the Via Domitiana by the sea.
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| Nigerian streetwalker on the main street in Castel Volturno plying her trade. Italian authorities say one out of every two sex worker on the roads of Italy are Nigerian. Image: VOA. |
The rampant petty crime and violence in the city has led to journalists wanting to write about the town requiring police escorts for their own safety.
In Castel Volturno, there are no street names. The panels were cleared.
In this ghost resort, about 50 miles north of Naples, the streets are overlooked. And it's long ago that we do not gather any garbage. The post closed. The school, the church, the commissariat too.
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| Bags of trash lay on a public beach, a few yards away from beachgoers. The once-popular tourist resort of Castel Volturno now faces severe environmental degradation. Image: Giovanni Izzo |
Half of the inhabitants are African clandestines who occupy swift pavilions who become squats. In these abandoned areas, the Nigerian mafia is at home. They mostly deal with prostitution and drug trafficking. At each corner of the street, a ceramic controls its territory, a stick in one hand and a phone in the other. At Castel Volturno, a journalist does not walk without escort.
The only women we are crossing are Nigerian prostitutes, mostly minor, that their customers work on Domitiana, along the sea. Price: from 10 to 15 euros, Some even offer for 5 euros.
The current Italian government, which is seeking re-election on March 4th, has signed a 21-million euro package to increase security in towns like Castel Volturno and offer integration programmes for migrants.
The mayor of Castel Volturno, Dimitri Russo, said that the government’s measures will likely not be enough to stem the rising tide of crime. Russo said that the problem was that the city was no longer dealing with an organised traditional mafia but many gangs of “predatory” criminal migrants.
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| A drug user lights a smoke. The Camorra has delegated the drug dealing business to the Nigerian gangs. Image: Giovanni Izzo |
Even African residents of the town have started to complain about the mass migration of illegals into the town. A resident named Martin commented: “We live in an abandoned place, we cannot accept all these people because we do not have the strength or the means to educate them. We are not in Africa, but in a civilized country, and these people need to be educated.”
It is unclear how many illegal migrants live in Italy, though former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has said the number is as high as 600,000. Berlusconi promised to deport at least 600,000 illegals if his party wins the upcoming national election, while his coalition partner and leader of the populist Lega party Matteo Salvini has made asimilar promise.
Nigerian criminals have also been a focus of the elections due to the brutal murder of 18-year-old Pamela Mastropietro, who was killed and then had her body dismemberedand left by the side of the road in suitcases, allegedly by a Nigerian drug dealer.
SOURCE:
Breibart.
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