The procura of Naples has opened an investigation into the case following Bonini's scoop. Today Carlo offers further details about the "friendly advice" offered to the Ecolog society to reduce its activity in transporting waste. During the worst crisis at New Years an obscure health functionary had sought to  block the convoys by falsely declaring that Ecolog's permits had expired. This functionary had already been caught up in an investigation against Camorra infiltration into the Benevento health services.

A certain Michele Greco who will presumably be nominated as director of waste disposal for the Campania, has been exposed as putting pressure on Ecolog to pull back their operations to simple transportation. Doctor Greco was accompanied by a certain Tiziano Brembilla, an international waste  broker who runs a society "TBR" currently implicated in illegal dumping in a 2004 case.

In another article reporter Attilio Bolzoni explains the impact of train transport on the garbage crisis. Ecolog was capable of sending two convoys a day to Germany with 1500 tons of waste per trip. Not surprisingly, each time Ecolog was prevented from transporting, waste accumulated in the Campania. A small note. The Ecolog trains were accompanied to the Italian frontier by a wagon of armed guards. Now that the convoys are run by Trenitalia, armed guards are no longer needed.

But then Trenitalia's convoys never leave, ostensibly because the Austrians won't allow transit yet.

In effect what the Camorra wants is that the waste remain in Campania going from one stocking place to another to reap state money. The crises in Naples appear to be directly linked to the blockage of train convoys.

As Sole24 hours pointed out on Sunday, the Italian mafias have caused 30,000 casualties in the past decades,  more than the Israeli- Palestine wars. It would be high time to talk about the Camorra instead of the Rom.