This is how they kill Naples, with fires and bombs targeting a historic pizzeria, the most famous in Italy. All the waste when crime wins... (photos and video)

Unfortunately, Gino Sorbillo's story is making headlines around the world. And it threatens to undermine the tourism revival of a city that is an integral part of the country's heritage.

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REBIRTH OF NAPLES

A Neapolitan pizza chef, the most famous in the city, in Italy, and perhaps in the world, is under attack. First a fire, then a bomb: Gino Sorbillo, a name and surname that everywhere evoke one of the favourite dishes of Italians, finds himself with his own restaurant, in the heart of Naples, hit and sunk. «Closed due to bomb" wrote, headlined, and filmed Sorbillo on his Facebook page, just to let everyone know, with a touch of Neapolitan irony, about this dramatic story.

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ILLEGALITY IN NAPLES

Racketeering, extortion, and crime. All roads lead to crime, which often continues to reign supreme in the capital of Southern Italy. And here we come to the heart of the matter. scandal, the waste and absurd. Something against which not only Neapolitans, but every Italian, from Bolzano to Catania, must absolutely rebel: the idea that the unpunished and violent clans, pure criminals, can to lay down the law in a global metropolis, in its vibrant neighborhoods, from the outskirts of Gomorrah to the historic center where the historic Sorbillo pizzeria is located.

NAPLES' REVIVAL SEASON

Naples is experiencing one of its cyclical moments seasons of relaunch. The mood of its own. It's good, you can't find a free room in the city's hotels, tourists come from every continent, and they don't just do it during the Christmas holidays to go and see the shepherds of San Gregorio Armeno, or in spring when the city's waterfront becomes heartbreaking with its light, its colors, its depth. No, the It is bathing Naples all year round, 12 months a year, and 365 days a year.

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GINO SORBILLO

And the long wave of this very effervescent season is spreading like wildfire in all the neighborhoods of the city, even the most popular ones, such as the area of Via Tribunali where they first set fire to and then bombed the Sorbillo pizzeria. Here, in the historic center that has been degraded and abandoned for decades, in neighborhoods like the Health who only made the news for murders, muggings and robberies, a real grassroots initiative has been created, as we in the Non sprecare community like to do, and with the energies of men and women in the area, fabric of economic activitiesAll healthy. Bars, restaurants, clubs, bed and breakfasts, craft shops and shops selling products made in Naples, from fruit to mozzarella, passing through sfogliatelle and pizzas, of the highest quality.

HOW TO REVIVING SOUTHERN ITALY

The criminals who hit the Sorbillo pizzeria are trying to strike a fatal blow, to kill, this city, its inexhaustible vitality, always crippled by the State, in some cases defeated by the underworld, and in others capable of knocking it down. Therefore, react and stop bombs and fire that smell of racketeering, it means save Naples from the abyss. And with Naples, save the South e Italy.   

(The images and video are taken from the Facebook page “Gino Sorbillo, Neapolitan Pizza Artist")

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