Attacks Prompt Naples to Guard Trash Trucks
Police have taken to escorting garbage trucks in the Naples area because of what they say appears to be a Mafia-style campaign to intimidate private collectors into paying protection money.
Officials in the anti-terrorist police squad in Naples said Friday that they were investigating a string of attacks to see if they are linked to the Camorra, a crime syndicate based in the Naples area that is compared to the Sicilian Mafia.
On Thursday, two hooded youths on a motorcycle stopped a garbage truck at gunpoint in Portici, a township on the outskirts of Naples.
The youths forced the driver and his partner to leave the truck and shot eight times at it, damaging the windshield and hood. They youths sped away.
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