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The European Court of Human Rights has given Italy two years to find a strategy for dealing with a toxic Mafia-run waste dump linked to high local levels of cancer.
For decades, the Camorra mafia has accepted payments from factories to dump industrial waste that might otherwise be prohibitively expensive to dispose of.
Camorra operatives collect waste from automotive and other plants and dump it – and burn it – in plain view along the sides of narrow country roads outside Casalnuovo di Napoli, near Naples.
Alessandro Cannavacciulo is a local environmental activist who says half his family has been "decimated" by cancer caused by the burning waste.
“For us,” a Naples mafioso boasted in 2008, “rubbish is gold”. A group of more than 40 plaintiffs took the Italian state to the ECHR, which found they had been denied their right to life.
