NAPLES Police have closed down a mafia-run radio station that they say was being used to broadcast secret messages to imprisoned mafiosi through song “dedications”.
The illegal station, set up by a clan of the Camorra (the Naples mafia) at Ercolano — ancient Herculaneum — broadcast “requests” for Neapolitan songs with dedications, which in reality were messages to clan members who tuned in while they were in jail. Some of the songs and dedications were a prearranged code to mafia gangsters at large, police said.
The closure of the radio was part of a crackdown involving 54 arrests in the south of Naples on charges of drugs trafficking, extortion and murder. Police confiscated mafia properties, seven armoured vehicles and video surveillance systems, as well as the offices and equipment of the radio station.
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