Police have seized a mini “mafia holiday village” consisting of 43 homes – four decades after it sprung up in a prime real estate spot by the sea.
Brothers Salvatore, Domenico and Pasquale Belforte from the Belforte Clan began building the holiday village in the 1980s.
Pasquale is a construction entrepreneur.
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The homes started out as small containers in a popular area of dunes and pine forests.
Seven of the villas were occupied by close relatives of Salvatore and Domenico, who have been in prison for years.
The two brothers were bosses and founders of the clan from Marcisiane in northern Italy.
Their holiday village is located in Bagnara di Castel Volturno in the north-west of Naples.
It was erected in plain sight, but no one ever reported it.
Prosecutors ordered the seizure of the properties, which were illegally constructed on public land, on Wednesday 28 August, according to local media.
Every summer, the same families gathered at the site, even after the two bosses were arrested.
Pasquale, their sister, Rosa, and about 18 other close relatives were holidaying in the village at the time of the seizure.
They were among 65 people identified and evicted by the police and the coastguard.
The Belforte Clan is among the oldest and most powerful clans of the notorious Camorra criminal organisation.
The clan operates in about 15 towns around and in Marcisiane, as reported by Need To Know.
Its alleged activities include drug trafficking, extortion, loan sharking and construction.
The Camorra from Campania is among Italy’s “big three” mafias, along with the ’Ndrangheta from Calabria and Cosa Nostra from Sicily.
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