The Sails of Scampia — a crime-ridden housing project on the outskirts of Naples — are being torn down as the area aims to leave its past behind. After years of planning, today Naples will go ahead ...

When Naples’ Scampia neighbourhood makes the headlines, it’s rarely for something good. The district is one of the most impoverished in the country, a hotbed of crime, gang warfare and a prime ...

For many years crossing the threshold that divides Scampia from Piscinola through the station of Naples’s underground railway has meant passing through the frame of a suspended building site exposed ...

The agents of the Scampia Operational Unit of the Naples Municipal Police, as part of a targeted verification plan on garage ...

NAPLES, Italy — A brutal “civil war” has broken out in Naples, with members of one Mafia clan fighting another for control of the drug-infested Scampia neighborhood. One of the most terrifying aspects ...

On behalf of the Public Prosecutor of Naples, it is announced that this morning, in the Scampia district, the State Police of Naples carried out an order in which the G.I.P. of the Naples Court, upon ...

A picture taken in Febuary 2020 shows one of the Vele buildings in Naples' Scampia neighbourhood. Photo by Ludovic MARIN / AFP The collapse of a building's balcony in Naples’ Scampia district killed ...

Pope Francis, visiting Italy's impoverished south on Saturday, encouraged Neapolitans to resist exploitation by Mafia dons and instead seek the dignity of honest jobs. On a day trip to Naples, Francis ...

The walkway collapsed in a building called Vela Celeste (Blue Sail) on an estate north of Naples Two people were killed and 13 others injured when a walkway collapsed on a council estate which has ...