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"Garbage is piling up outside our building," said Angela Sepe, a Neapolitan walking on the outskirts of the city. "I don't go downstairs any more to throw it away but throw it out the window because the garbage has already reached" as high as the second-floor window.
On Thursday, angry residents in the Pianura neighbourhood in Naples' outskirts blocked a street to protest the reopening of a long-closed dump. Fire officials said four empty buses in the neighbourhood were set afire overnight -- apparently in protest of the dump's reopening.Environment Minister Antonio Pecoraro Scanio, who has been a harsh critic of the commissioner's office, also blamed what he called the "eco-mafia," a reference to Naples' organized crime syndicate, the Camorra, and its hold on garbage collection.See the full content of this document
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Naples Garbage Crisis Intensifies
By Salvatore Laporta
NAPLES, Italy -- Stinking mounds of garbage continued to pile up on the streets of Naples on Friday as officials ar...See the full content of this document
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