Casamonica

Trafficking, council housing, extortion: in Rome there is no criminal activity the

Casamonicas are not involved in. There is not only the Feudo della Romanina, where the institutions do not even attempt to enter, but their style is spreading all over the city—like a virus. It’s a style made of violence, intimidations and prevarication, which demands absolute submission, silence and connivence from the other side.

The investigation by Nello Trocchia reports for the first time the complete story of a ferocious clan, a Sinti family —the Italian “gipsies”— counting more than one thousand members and a lot of ramifications that control different kinds of criminal activities.