July 17 – Italian police on Thursday arrested three alleged affiliates of the Camorra crime syndicate suspected of extorting money from a film company shooting the Gomorra TV series near Naples
Cattleya production company was forced to fork over an extra 6,000 euros to shoot inside a house belonging to a relative of a big shot Camorra chief of clan Gallo -Pisielli in the crime riddled region of Torre Annunziata, police sources said.
The Gamorra series is a spin off from the movie Gamorra based on the bestselling book by Anti-mafia author Roberto Saviano about the Camorra mafia, whose death threats finally forced Savianno into perpetual police protection
Prosecutors also placed Cattleya’s location manager Gennaro Aquino and producers Gianluca Arcopinto and Matteo De Laurentiis under investigation on suspicion of hushing up the extortion and tipping the suspects off to their imminent arrests.
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