Authorities have ordered a security crackdown across the Lattari Mountains and the Vesuvian area following two high-profile killings and a wider sequence of unsolved homicides, according to Metropolis Web.
The decision was taken by the provincial committee for public order and security. It calls for stronger police checks with particular attention to nighttime hours, public squares, and busy gathering places.
The plan covers a multi-municipality area including Gragnano, Pimonte, Lettere, Casola, Agerola, and Trecase. The aim, according to the report, is to avoid pushing criminal activity from one town into neighboring towns by applying pressure across the whole area.
New surveillance cameras are planned, including in outlying areas and on roads connecting the municipalities. The isolated locations of recent ambushes had limited the availability of surveillance images useful to investigators.
The program also provides for more law enforcement personnel and coordinated action against drug dealing and the spread of weapons.
For Gragnano, 250,000 euros have been allocated for video surveillance. Funding is also expected for the other municipalities involved, although the amounts for each town have not been specified.
The initiative includes measures against school dropout, described as a preventive step against marginalization and criminal recruitment.
The crackdown follows the killings of Raffaele Afeltra and Francesco Di Martino on the Lattari Mountains, part of a longer series of unsolved murders in the area. Investigators are examining the possibility of a common criminal direction behind those two killings, but that remains an investigative hypothesis, not a judicial finding.
No precise figures have been published for the number of additional officers, the duration of the reinforced deployment, or the number, locations, and technical specifications of the new cameras.
