Luka Dakskobler

Stories: NO MORE BELLA ITALIA

In the winter of 2007/2008 Naples, Italy, was suffocating in garbage. The continuous garbage crisis brought on by the mafia's control over garbage disposal prompted the EU to give Naples a deadline to clean up the city by the end of February 2008. Two weeks before the deadline, Naples was fairly clean, but garbage trucks rolled out to the neighbouring cities, allegedly exporting all that trash outside the city just to meet the deadline. The neighbouring Caserta, the Cammora stronghold, was chest deep in garbage with no end in sight. 

  • Garbage piles up along a street in the industrial part of Caserta on the outskirts of Naples, Italy, on February 21, 2008.
  • A man rides a motorcycle down a street full of garbage in Caserta, the outskirts of Naples, Italy, on February 21, 2008.
  • Garbage piles up along a residential street in Caserta on the outskirts of Naples, Italy on February 21, 2008.
  • Garbage piles up on a street in Caserta on the outskirts of Naples, Italy, on February 21, 2008.
  • Garbage piles up along a street in the industrial part of Caserta on the outskirts of Naples, Italy, on February 21, 2008.
  • A woman walks past a pile of garbage on a street in Caserta, Naples' neighbouring city, on February 21, 2008.
  • Garbage piles up along a street in the industrial part of Caserta on the outskirts of Naples, on February 21, 2008.
  • Every stretch of grass along a street in the industrial part of Caserta on the outskirts of Naples is littered with garbage on February 21, 2008.
  • A citizen of Caserta throws garbage onto a big pile near a residential area on February 21, 2008. Locals say the situation was caused by the local mafia Camorra.
  • A neglected lawn in an industrial part of Caserta on the outskirts of Naples on February 21, 2008.
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