NAPLES, ITALY - 30 JULY 2018: Roberto Saviano, an Italian journalist, writer and essayis, poses for a portrait at the Nuovo Teatro Sanità, a theatre collective in the Sanità neighborhood, in Naples, Italy, on July 30th 2018.<br />
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In 2017 the 17-year-old innocent victim Genny Cesarano was shot and killed by stray bullet  in cross fire between 2 rival gangs vying for territorial control in the Sanità neighborhood.<br />
The  isolation of the neighborhood Sanità over the years provided an ideal location for the Camorra to expand their illicit activities and profit from soaring unemployment rates and economic instability,<br />
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After the first death threats of 2006 by the Casalese clan , a cartel of the Camorra, which he denounced in his exposé and in the piazza of Casal di Principe during a demonstration in defense of legality, Roberto Saviano was put under a strict security protocol. Since 2006 Roberto Saviano has lived under police protection.<br />
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Saviano's latest novel "The Piranhas", which tells the story of the rise of  a paranza (or Children's gang) and it leader Nicolas, will be released in the United States on September 4th 2018.