Before Gomorrah. The camorra in the Eighties in the view of Pasquale Galasso

Abstract

This article examines an extract of the hearing of the pentito Pasquale Galasso before the antimafia Parliamentary Committee on 13 July 1993, the text of which is reported hereafter. It examines the salient points of the testimony, focusing on the Nuova camorra organizzata (NCO), a camorristic group founded by Raffaele Cutolo at the end of the 1970s, on some of its original profiles and on the role it played in the Campania context. Galasso’s point of view on the gang wars of those years and particularly on the disproportionate use of violence is also discussed.