Camorra
a well-organized secret society, once spread throughout all parts of the kingdom of Naples. At one time the Camorristi were all-powerful, levying a kind of blackmail at all markets, fairs, and public gatherings, claiming the right of deciding disputes, hiring themselves out for any criminal service from the passing of contraband goods to assassination. They had central stations in all the large provincial towns, and a regular staff of recruiting officers.
At the end of the 19th century the political power gained by the Camorra had become so notorious and scandalous, that the Italian Government found it necessary to interfere. This resulted in the complete political defeat of the Camorra.
The society thereupon returned to its original character and resumed blackmailing, extortion, robbery, and murder. Its activities eventually were suppressed, at least to a certain extent, by CAMOUFLAGE CAMP the trial and conviction, in 1912, of its this end, the ships were painted with zigprincipal leaders.