The follow-up to Matteo Garrone's 2008 Cannes jury prize winner was to be set in the violent Naples suburb of Scampia. By Eric J. Lyman Gomorrah Poster - H 2012 ROME — The top political official of a ...

"It's no longer the Scampia of Gomorrah, but a new Scampia," says Mayor Gaetano Manfredi on the day of the evacuation of the Vela Rossa in Scampia. The operations have kickstarted the "Restart Scampia ...

NAPLES, Italy (Reuters) - Bulldozers started work on Thursday demolishing a crime-riddled, crumbling housing estate on the outskirts of Naples, notorious for its links to the local mafia. Mechanical ...

A new air was felt among the residents of the neighborhood, associations, parishes, and schools. It was the air that arrived in Scampia on March 21, 2015, when Pope Francis, two years into his ...

Italy's most infamous housing estate and the setting for the hit TV series Gomorrah is being demolished after residents won their decades-long fight. Long associated with organised crime and ...

Bulldozers started work on Thursday demolishing a crime-riddled, crumbling housing estate on the outskirts of Naples, notorious for its links to the local mafia. Mechanical diggers ripped into the ...

Vele housing complexes in Scampia, photographed from above - Flyres/Getty Images Anytime you visit a major city abroad, it's natural to have questions about what neighborhoods are safe to visit. Some ...

Anytime you visit a major city abroad, it's natural to have questions about what neighborhoods are safe to visit. Some places have reputations that precede them, and it's up to us to investigate and ...