Name: Italy: Mafia recruits young people with murals glorifying 'fallen heroes' | Focus on Europe
Uploaded: 2021-03-21T18:30:04.000Z
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a moped stops in front of a convenience store.

A robber wearing a helmet and a face mask enters and threatens the cashier with a gun to extort a watch or money.

Many young criminals think it is simple and easy, but then a plainclothes policeman or a carbon era witnesses the robbery, and it ends with deadly consequences.

15 year old Yugo Raso died when a military policeman opened fire on him in the middle of the night in the elegant heart of Naples.

He was shot twice in the chest and once in the back of his head, you go to his father and his youngest son, stand in front of a huge mural that dominates a small square in the Spanish Quarter.

It is an image of Hugo staring at his family and neighbors demanding truth and justice.

The fact that you go committed an armed robbery is not spoken of here.

Yeah, many approve of his mural and complain about police violence and slow investigations.

They claim that the legal proceedings against the military policeman never really started.

Therefore, the Russo family is receiving more and more support, also from those who demand clarification as well as more solidarity between the rich and the poor.

In Naples, the prevailing mentality in this city is to each his due.

The rich remain rich, the poor remain poor.

A youth who commits a crime should be shot.

Hugo's father, who has been known to the police since adolescence, also believes this to be true.

Nobody in this city genuinely wants to know why such robberies occur.

They just want to destroy us, to trample us like vermin.

We visit another neighborhood with another mural.

This one commemorates 17 year old Luigi Carafa with candles in an altar.

Last October, he, too, was shot dead by a policeman in civilian clothes whilst committing a robbery.

Meanwhile, the mural has been removed by the police.

The reaction in the neighborhood is aggressive.

Young criminals portrayed as saints, religious worship.

Naples mafia is well known to priest Luigi Merola.

He has been fighting against it for 20 years, putting up a picture of someone who committed a robbery or is the boss of a clan, and worshipping them like a saint sends a very bad message, as if the bad could become good.

The priest works against these illegal demonstrations of power and has also been threatened.

However, behind high walls, he continues to do youth work now.

During the pandemic, he helps youths with homework online and in normal times with recreational activities.

Families hit particularly hard by the pandemic, received aid to stop the next generation from getting further involved in criminal activity.

Every neighborhood has its clan boss, but most of these bosses are now in prison.

Many young people take advantage of this.

This increases violence because the actual boss has lost control and can no longer maintain order in the neighborhood like before.

In addition, the characters of popular Mafia series become real role models for many young people.

Experts say this increases rivalry and the readiness for violence in the streets.

Violence is justified, so to speak, as the state doesn't intervene.

There is a lack of perspective from police or prosecutors, which makes the criminals feel they can get away with anything without being arrested, prosecuted or held responsible.

Yeah, but perhaps times are changing because more and more people in Naples are calling for the image of you go Russo to be removed A 15 year old small time crook is no saint, No god like the God of soccer a few streets away, only Diego Armando Maradona, the deceased idol who once played for SSC Naples unites the city and maybe worshipped like a saint.