With mopeds and Molotov cocktails

Corriere della Sera correspondent Marco Imarisio is on location: "Everything changes when the television cameras are pointed at the burning camps. The fat man who had just called out 'Let them burn!' now clasps his hands over his head and cries 'Madonna mia, the poor people!' A youth with mirrored glasses suddenly becomes eloquent: 'They have to be turned away, but not like this'. The television camera is shut off, and the youth bursts out laughing. ... A group of youths stands nearby. ... The leader is the great-nephew of [Naples suburb] Ponticelli's 'mayor', Ciro Sano, the Capo of a Camorra clan that has put down roots here. The youth winks to his group and off they ride on their mopeds. Ten minutes later fresh clouds of smoke rise from the nomad camps. ... And so things go on, heading back to the Middle Ages."

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