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  • NAPLES, ITALY - 30 JULY 2018: Roberto Saviano (center), an Italian journalist, writer and essayist poses for a selfie with the young actors and organisers of the collective "Nuovo Teatro Sanità" (New Sanità Theatre) in the Sanità neighborhood in Naples, Italy, on July 30th 2018.<br />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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.
    CIPG_20180730_NYT-Saviano__M3_2472.jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 30 JULY 2018: Roberto Saviano (left), an Italian journalist, writer and essayist chats with the young actors of the collective "Nuovo Teatro Sanità" (New Sanità Theatre) in the Sanità neighborhood in Naples, Italy, on July 30th 2018.<br />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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.
    CIPG_20180730_NYT-Saviano__M3_2346.jpg
  • 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 />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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.
    CIPG_20180730_NYT-Saviano__M3_2263.jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 30 JULY 2018: Roberto Saviano (center), an Italian journalist, writer and essayist is seen here with the young actors and organisers of the collective "Nuovo Teatro Sanità" (New Sanità Theatre) in the Sanità neighborhood, in Naples, Italy, on July 30th 2018.<br />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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.
    CIPG_20180730_NYT-Saviano__M3_2099.jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 30 JULY 2018: Roberto Saviano (center), an Italian journalist, writer and essayist is seen here with the young actors and organisers of the collective "Nuovo Teatro Sanità" (New Sanità Theatre) in the Sanità neighborhood, in Naples, Italy, on July 30th 2018.<br />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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.
    CIPG_20180730_NYT-Saviano__M3_2039.jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 30 JULY 2018: Roberto Saviano (center), an Italian journalist, writer and essayist is seen here with his police escort as he arrives and greets the young actors of the collective "Nuovo Teatro Sanità" (New Sanità Theatre) in the Sanità neighborhood in Naples, Italy, on July 30th 2018.<br />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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.
    CIPG_20180730_NYT-Saviano__M3_1903.jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 30 JULY 2018: Roberto Saviano (center), an Italian journalist, writer and essayist is seen here with his police escort by the Vele di Scampia (English: Sails of Scampia), a large urban housing project and one of the poorest and most disadvantaged in the country, here in Naples, Italy, on July 30th 2018.<br />
<br />
Thanks to Roberto Saviano’s bestselling book “Gomorrah” — and subsequent film and TV series — the the Vele di Scampia are known worldwide as a hotbed for drugs, prostitution and the mafia. In 2016 the city council announced an ambitious €58 million plan to tear down three of the decaying buildings and convert the fourth into offices.<br />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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.
    CIPG_20180730_NYT-Saviano__M3_1674.jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 30 JULY 2018: Roberto Saviano (left), an Italian journalist, writer and essayist chats with the young actors and organisers of the collective "Nuovo Teatro Sanità" (New Sanità Theatre) during lunch in the Sanità neighborhood in Naples, Italy, on July 30th 2018.<br />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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.
    CIPG_20180730_NYT-Saviano__M3_2300.jpg
  • 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 />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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.
    CIPG_20180730_NYT-Saviano__M3_2255.jpg
  • 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 />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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.
    CIPG_20180730_NYT-Saviano__M3_2223.jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 30 JULY 2018: Roberto Saviano (center), an Italian journalist, writer and essayist is seen here with the young actors and organisers of the collective "Nuovo Teatro Sanità" (New Sanità Theatre) in the Sanità neighborhood, in Naples, Italy, on July 30th 2018.<br />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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.
    CIPG_20180730_NYT-Saviano__M3_2099.jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 30 JULY 2018: Roberto Saviano (center), an Italian journalist, writer and essayist is seen here with his police escort in the Sanità neighborhood, where 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 Naples, Italy, on July 30th 2018.<br />
<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 />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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.
    CIPG_20180730_NYT-Saviano__M3_1821.jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 30 JULY 2018: Roberto Saviano (center), an Italian journalist, writer and essayist is seen here with his police escort by the Vele di Scampia (English: Sails of Scampia), a large urban housing project and one of the poorest and most disadvantaged in the country, here in Naples, Italy, on July 30th 2018.<br />
<br />
Thanks to Roberto Saviano’s bestselling book “Gomorrah” — and subsequent film and TV series — the the Vele di Scampia are known worldwide as a hotbed for drugs, prostitution and the mafia. In 2016 the city council announced an ambitious €58 million plan to tear down three of the decaying buildings and convert the fourth into offices.<br />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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.
    CIPG_20180730_NYT-Saviano__M3_1669.jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 30 JULY 2018: Roberto Saviano (center), an Italian journalist, writer and essayist poses for a selfie with some fans near the collective "Nuovo Teatro Sanità" (New Sanità Theatre) in the Sanità neighborhood in Naples, Italy, on July 30th 2018.<br />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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.
    CIPG_20180730_NYT-Saviano__M3_2521.jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 30 JULY 2018: Roberto Saviano (center), an Italian journalist, writer and essayist greets a fan after stepping out of the collective "Nuovo Teatro Sanità" (New Sanità Theatre) in the Sanità neighborhood in Naples, Italy, on July 30th 2018.<br />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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.
    CIPG_20180730_NYT-Saviano__M3_2517.jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 30 JULY 2018: Roberto Saviano (left), an Italian journalist, writer and essayist chats with the young actors of the collective "Nuovo Teatro Sanità" (New Sanità Theatre) in the Sanità neighborhood in Naples, Italy, on July 30th 2018.<br />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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.
    CIPG_20180730_NYT-Saviano__M3_2407.jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 30 JULY 2018: Roberto Saviano (left), an Italian journalist, writer and essayist chats with the young actors of the collective "Nuovo Teatro Sanità" (New Sanità Theatre) in the Sanità neighborhood in Naples, Italy, on July 30th 2018.<br />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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.
    CIPG_20180730_NYT-Saviano__M3_2391.jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 30 JULY 2018: Roberto Saviano (left), an Italian journalist, writer and essayist chats with the young actors of the collective "Nuovo Teatro Sanità" (New Sanità Theatre) in the Sanità neighborhood in Naples, Italy, on July 30th 2018.<br />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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.
    CIPG_20180730_NYT-Saviano__M3_2341.jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 30 JULY 2018: Roberto Saviano (left), an Italian journalist, writer and essayist chats with the young actors and organisers of the collective "Nuovo Teatro Sanità" (New Sanità Theatre) during lunch in the Sanità neighborhood in Naples, Italy, on July 30th 2018.<br />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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.
    CIPG_20180730_NYT-Saviano__M3_2300.jpg
  • 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 />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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.
    CIPG_20180730_NYT-Saviano__M3_2279.jpg
  • 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 />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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.
    CIPG_20180730_NYT-Saviano__M3_2255.jpg
  • 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 />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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.
    CIPG_20180730_NYT-Saviano__M3_2250.jpg
  • 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 />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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.
    CIPG_20180730_NYT-Saviano__M3_2248.jpg
  • 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 />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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.
    CIPG_20180730_NYT-Saviano__M3_2237.jpg
  • 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 />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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.
    CIPG_20180730_NYT-Saviano__M3_2227.jpg
  • 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 />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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.
    CIPG_20180730_NYT-Saviano__M3_2225.jpg
  • 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 />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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.
    CIPG_20180730_NYT-Saviano__M3_2223.jpg
  • 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 />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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.
    CIPG_20180730_NYT-Saviano__M3_2213.jpg
  • 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 />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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.
    CIPG_20180730_NYT-Saviano__M3_2199.jpg
  • 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 />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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.
    CIPG_20180730_NYT-Saviano__M3_2196.jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 30 JULY 2018: Roberto Saviano (center), an Italian journalist, writer and essayist is seen here with the young actors and organisers of the collective "Nuovo Teatro Sanità" (New Sanità Theatre) in the Sanità neighborhood, in Naples, Italy, on July 30th 2018.<br />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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.
    CIPG_20180730_NYT-Saviano__M3_2102.jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 30 JULY 2018: Roberto Saviano (center), an Italian journalist, writer and essayist is seen here with the young actors of the collective "Nuovo Teatro Sanità" (New Sanità Theatre) in the Sanità neighborhood, in Naples, Italy, on July 30th 2018.<br />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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.
    CIPG_20180730_NYT-Saviano__M3_2020.jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 30 JULY 2018: Roberto Saviano (center), an Italian journalist, writer and essayist is seen here with his police escort in the Sanità neighborhood, where 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 Naples, Italy, on July 30th 2018.<br />
<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 />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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.
    CIPG_20180730_NYT-Saviano__M3_1821.jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 30 JULY 2018: Roberto Saviano (center), an Italian journalist, writer and essayist is seen here with his police escort in the Sanità neighborhood, where 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 Naples, Italy, on July 30th 2018.<br />
<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 />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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.
    CIPG_20180730_NYT-Saviano__M3_1790.jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 30 JULY 2018: Roberto Saviano (center), an Italian journalist, writer and essayist is seen here with his police escort in the Sanità neighborhood, where 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 Naples, Italy, on July 30th 2018.<br />
<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 />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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.
    CIPG_20180730_NYT-Saviano__M3_1784.jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 30 JULY 2018: Roberto Saviano (2nd from right), an Italian journalist, writer and essayist is seen here with his police escort by the hospital Santa Maria di Loreto in Naples, Italy, on July 30th 2018.<br />
<br />
In 2015 the 19-year-old fugitive and gang leader Emanuele Sibillo was shot and brought to the Santa Maria di Loreto hospital by two gang fellows. He died shortly after arriving at the hospital.<br />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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.
    CIPG_20180730_NYT-Saviano__M3_1762.jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 30 JULY 2018: Roberto Saviano (2nd from right), an Italian journalist, writer and essayist is seen here with his police escort by the hospital Santa Maria di Loreto in Naples, Italy, on July 30th 2018.<br />
<br />
In 2015 the 19-year-old fugitive and gang leader Emanuele Sibillo was shot and brought to the Santa Maria di Loreto hospital by two gang fellows. He died shortly after arriving at the hospital.<br />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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.
    CIPG_20180730_NYT-Saviano__M3_1760.jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 30 JULY 2018: Roberto Saviano (center), an Italian journalist, writer and essayist is seen here with his police escort by the Vele di Scampia (English: Sails of Scampia), a large urban housing project and one of the poorest and most disadvantaged in the country, here in Naples, Italy, on July 30th 2018.<br />
<br />
Thanks to Roberto Saviano’s bestselling book “Gomorrah” — and subsequent film and TV series — the the Vele di Scampia are known worldwide as a hotbed for drugs, prostitution and the mafia. In 2016 the city council announced an ambitious €58 million plan to tear down three of the decaying buildings and convert the fourth into offices.<br />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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.
    CIPG_20180730_NYT-Saviano__M3_1686.jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 30 JULY 2018: Roberto Saviano (center), an Italian journalist, writer and essayist is seen here with his police escort by the Vele di Scampia (English: Sails of Scampia), a large urban housing project and one of the poorest and most disadvantaged in the country, here in Naples, Italy, on July 30th 2018.<br />
<br />
Thanks to Roberto Saviano’s bestselling book “Gomorrah” — and subsequent film and TV series — the the Vele di Scampia are known worldwide as a hotbed for drugs, prostitution and the mafia. In 2016 the city council announced an ambitious €58 million plan to tear down three of the decaying buildings and convert the fourth into offices.<br />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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.
    CIPG_20180730_NYT-Saviano__M3_1684.jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 30 JULY 2018: Roberto Saviano (center), an Italian journalist, writer and essayist is seen here with his police escort by the Vele di Scampia (English: Sails of Scampia), a large urban housing project and one of the poorest and most disadvantaged in the country, here in Naples, Italy, on July 30th 2018.<br />
<br />
Thanks to Roberto Saviano’s bestselling book “Gomorrah” — and subsequent film and TV series — the the Vele di Scampia are known worldwide as a hotbed for drugs, prostitution and the mafia. In 2016 the city council announced an ambitious €58 million plan to tear down three of the decaying buildings and convert the fourth into offices.<br />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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.
    CIPG_20180730_NYT-Saviano__M3_1669.jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 30 JULY 2018: Roberto Saviano (center), an Italian journalist, writer and essayist poses for a selfie with some fans near the collective "Nuovo Teatro Sanità" (New Sanità Theatre) in the Sanità neighborhood in Naples, Italy, on July 30th 2018.<br />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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.
    CIPG_20180730_NYT-Saviano__M3_2521.jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 30 JULY 2018: Roberto Saviano (center), an Italian journalist, writer and essayist greets a fan after stepping out of the collective "Nuovo Teatro Sanità" (New Sanità Theatre) in the Sanità neighborhood in Naples, Italy, on July 30th 2018.<br />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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.
    CIPG_20180730_NYT-Saviano__M3_2517.jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 30 JULY 2018: Roberto Saviano (center), an Italian journalist, writer and essayist poses for a selfie with the young actors and organisers of the collective "Nuovo Teatro Sanità" (New Sanità Theatre) in the Sanità neighborhood in Naples, Italy, on July 30th 2018.<br />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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.
    CIPG_20180730_NYT-Saviano__M3_2472.jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 30 JULY 2018: Roberto Saviano (left), an Italian journalist, writer and essayist chats with the young actors of the collective "Nuovo Teatro Sanità" (New Sanità Theatre) in the Sanità neighborhood in Naples, Italy, on July 30th 2018.<br />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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.
    CIPG_20180730_NYT-Saviano__M3_2407.jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 30 JULY 2018: Roberto Saviano (left), an Italian journalist, writer and essayist chats with the young actors of the collective "Nuovo Teatro Sanità" (New Sanità Theatre) in the Sanità neighborhood in Naples, Italy, on July 30th 2018.<br />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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.
    CIPG_20180730_NYT-Saviano__M3_2391.jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 30 JULY 2018: Roberto Saviano (left), an Italian journalist, writer and essayist chats with the young actors of the collective "Nuovo Teatro Sanità" (New Sanità Theatre) in the Sanità neighborhood in Naples, Italy, on July 30th 2018.<br />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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.
    CIPG_20180730_NYT-Saviano__M3_2346.jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 30 JULY 2018: Roberto Saviano (left), an Italian journalist, writer and essayist chats with the young actors of the collective "Nuovo Teatro Sanità" (New Sanità Theatre) in the Sanità neighborhood in Naples, Italy, on July 30th 2018.<br />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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.
    CIPG_20180730_NYT-Saviano__M3_2341.jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 30 JULY 2018: Roberto Saviano (left), an Italian journalist, writer and essayist chats with the young actors of the collective "Nuovo Teatro Sanità" (New Sanità Theatre) in the Sanità neighborhood in Naples, Italy, on July 30th 2018.<br />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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.
    CIPG_20180730_NYT-Saviano__M3_2339.jpg
  • 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 />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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.
    CIPG_20180730_NYT-Saviano__M3_2279.jpg
  • 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 />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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.
    CIPG_20180730_NYT-Saviano__M3_2263.jpg
  • 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 />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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.
    CIPG_20180730_NYT-Saviano__M3_2250.jpg
  • 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 />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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.
    CIPG_20180730_NYT-Saviano__M3_2248.jpg
  • 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 />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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.
    CIPG_20180730_NYT-Saviano__M3_2237.jpg
  • 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 />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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.
    CIPG_20180730_NYT-Saviano__M3_2227.jpg
  • 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 />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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.
    CIPG_20180730_NYT-Saviano__M3_2225.jpg
  • 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 />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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.
    CIPG_20180730_NYT-Saviano__M3_2213.jpg
  • 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 />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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.
    CIPG_20180730_NYT-Saviano__M3_2199.jpg
  • 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 />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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.
    CIPG_20180730_NYT-Saviano__M3_2196.jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 30 JULY 2018: Roberto Saviano (center), an Italian journalist, writer and essayist is seen here with the young actors and organisers of the collective "Nuovo Teatro Sanità" (New Sanità Theatre) in the Sanità neighborhood, in Naples, Italy, on July 30th 2018.<br />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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.
    CIPG_20180730_NYT-Saviano__M3_2102.jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 30 JULY 2018: Roberto Saviano (center), an Italian journalist, writer and essayist is seen here with the young actors and organisers of the collective "Nuovo Teatro Sanità" (New Sanità Theatre) in the Sanità neighborhood, in Naples, Italy, on July 30th 2018.<br />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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.
    CIPG_20180730_NYT-Saviano__M3_2039.jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 30 JULY 2018: Roberto Saviano (center), an Italian journalist, writer and essayist is seen here with the young actors of the collective "Nuovo Teatro Sanità" (New Sanità Theatre) in the Sanità neighborhood, in Naples, Italy, on July 30th 2018.<br />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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.
    CIPG_20180730_NYT-Saviano__M3_2020.jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 30 JULY 2018: Roberto Saviano (center), an Italian journalist, writer and essayist is seen here with his police escort as he arrives and greets the young actors of the collective "Nuovo Teatro Sanità" (New Sanità Theatre) in the Sanità neighborhood in Naples, Italy, on July 30th 2018.<br />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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.
    CIPG_20180730_NYT-Saviano__M3_1903.jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 30 JULY 2018: Roberto Saviano (center), an Italian journalist, writer and essayist is seen here with his police escort in the Sanità neighborhood, where 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 Naples, Italy, on July 30th 2018.<br />
<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 />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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.
    CIPG_20180730_NYT-Saviano__M3_1784.jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 30 JULY 2018: Roberto Saviano (2nd from right), an Italian journalist, writer and essayist is seen here with his police escort by the hospital Santa Maria di Loreto in Naples, Italy, on July 30th 2018.<br />
<br />
In 2015 the 19-year-old fugitive and gang leader Emanuele Sibillo was shot and brought to the Santa Maria di Loreto hospital by two gang fellows. He died shortly after arriving at the hospital.<br />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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.
    CIPG_20180730_NYT-Saviano__M3_1762.jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 30 JULY 2018: Roberto Saviano (2nd from right), an Italian journalist, writer and essayist is seen here with his police escort by the hospital Santa Maria di Loreto in Naples, Italy, on July 30th 2018.<br />
<br />
In 2015 the 19-year-old fugitive and gang leader Emanuele Sibillo was shot and brought to the Santa Maria di Loreto hospital by two gang fellows. He died shortly after arriving at the hospital.<br />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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.
    CIPG_20180730_NYT-Saviano__M3_1760.jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 30 JULY 2018: Roberto Saviano (center), an Italian journalist, writer and essayist is seen here with his police escort by the Vele di Scampia (English: Sails of Scampia), a large urban housing project and one of the poorest and most disadvantaged in the country, here in Naples, Italy, on July 30th 2018.<br />
<br />
Thanks to Roberto Saviano’s bestselling book “Gomorrah” — and subsequent film and TV series — the the Vele di Scampia are known worldwide as a hotbed for drugs, prostitution and the mafia. In 2016 the city council announced an ambitious €58 million plan to tear down three of the decaying buildings and convert the fourth into offices.<br />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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.
    CIPG_20180730_NYT-Saviano__M3_1686.jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 30 JULY 2018: Roberto Saviano (center), an Italian journalist, writer and essayist is seen here with his police escort by the Vele di Scampia (English: Sails of Scampia), a large urban housing project and one of the poorest and most disadvantaged in the country, here in Naples, Italy, on July 30th 2018.<br />
<br />
Thanks to Roberto Saviano’s bestselling book “Gomorrah” — and subsequent film and TV series — the the Vele di Scampia are known worldwide as a hotbed for drugs, prostitution and the mafia. In 2016 the city council announced an ambitious €58 million plan to tear down three of the decaying buildings and convert the fourth into offices.<br />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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.
    CIPG_20180730_NYT-Saviano__M3_1684.jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 30 JULY 2018: Roberto Saviano (center), an Italian journalist, writer and essayist is seen here with his police escort by the Vele di Scampia (English: Sails of Scampia), a large urban housing project and one of the poorest and most disadvantaged in the country, here in Naples, Italy, on July 30th 2018.<br />
<br />
Thanks to Roberto Saviano’s bestselling book “Gomorrah” — and subsequent film and TV series — the the Vele di Scampia are known worldwide as a hotbed for drugs, prostitution and the mafia. In 2016 the city council announced an ambitious €58 million plan to tear down three of the decaying buildings and convert the fourth into offices.<br />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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.
    CIPG_20180730_NYT-Saviano__M3_1674.jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 30 JULY 2018: Roberto Saviano (left), an Italian journalist, writer and essayist chats with the young actors of the collective "Nuovo Teatro Sanità" (New Sanità Theatre) in the Sanità neighborhood in Naples, Italy, on July 30th 2018.<br />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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.
    CIPG_20180730_NYT-Saviano__M3_2339.jpg
  • MONREALE, ITALY - 12 JUNE 2021: (L-R) Francesco Lepore - a 45-year-old journalist and gay activist, formerly known as Father Lepore. a Catholic priest and Vatican Latinist - is seen here with his partner Michele Nicolosi (59), an Italian post office employee, walk back to their car in Monreale, Italy, on June 12th 2021.<br />
<br />
Mr. Lepore’s Latin column has included recent columns about “Ioannes Biden” considering “Vladimirum Putin” a “pro homicida habet” and another, about the legalization of bitcoin -- or “bito nummario” -- in El Salvador, was retweeted by that country’s president. He is the editor of GayNews.it and later this month will publish “The Crime if Giarre,” an investigation into the decades-old murder of two Sicilian gay men which helped spark Italy’s gay rights movement.<br />
<br />
His years in the corridors of power within the Roman Curia that governs the church ended badly when officials forced him out because of his sexuality, a development he found ironic given, he said, that the vast majority of the clergy he met in the Vatican were themselves gay, and that he slept with at least several of them. In the process of leaving the priesthood, Pope Francis told him he was moved by his “consistency” and “courage” and once he was out, he became the star witness of Frédéric Martel’s buzzy 2019 book “In the Closet of the Vatican,” where Mr. Lepore’s naming names and estimates of 80 percent of the Vatican being gay made a splash.
    CIPG_20210612_NYT_Gay-Vatican-Latini...jpg
  • ISOLA DELLE FEMMINE, ITALY - 12 JUNE 2021: The "Lexicon Latinum Hodiernum", a dictionary containing words, proverbs and phrases in common use in modern society translated into Latin, is held by Francesco Lepore - a 45-year-old journalist and gay activist, formerly known as Father Lepore, a Catholic priest and Vatican Latinist, here in Isola delle Femmine, Italy, on June 12th 2021.<br />
<br />
Mr. Lepore’s Latin column has included recent columns about “Ioannes Biden” considering “Vladimirum Putin” a “pro homicida habet” and another, about the legalization of bitcoin -- or “bito nummario” -- in El Salvador, was retweeted by that country’s president. He is the editor of GayNews.it and later this month will publish “The Crime if Giarre,” an investigation into the decades-old murder of two Sicilian gay men which helped spark Italy’s gay rights movement.<br />
<br />
His years in the corridors of power within the Roman Curia that governs the church ended badly when officials forced him out because of his sexuality, a development he found ironic given, he said, that the vast majority of the clergy he met in the Vatican were themselves gay, and that he slept with at least several of them. In the process of leaving the priesthood, Pope Francis told him he was moved by his “consistency” and “courage” and once he was out, he became the star witness of Frédéric Martel’s buzzy 2019 book “In the Closet of the Vatican,” where Mr. Lepore’s naming names and estimates of 80 percent of the Vatican being gay made a splash.
    CIPG_20210612_NYT_Gay-Vatican-Latini...jpg
  • ISOLA DELLE FEMMINE, ITALY - 12 JUNE 2021: Francesco Lepore - a 45-year-old journalist and gay activist, formerly known as Father Lepore, a Catholic priest and Vatican Latinist - poses for a portrait in Isola delle Femmine, Italy, on June 12th 2021.<br />
<br />
Mr. Lepore’s Latin column has included recent columns about “Ioannes Biden” considering “Vladimirum Putin” a “pro homicida habet” and another, about the legalization of bitcoin -- or “bito nummario” -- in El Salvador, was retweeted by that country’s president. He is the editor of GayNews.it and later this month will publish “The Crime if Giarre,” an investigation into the decades-old murder of two Sicilian gay men which helped spark Italy’s gay rights movement.<br />
<br />
His years in the corridors of power within the Roman Curia that governs the church ended badly when officials forced him out because of his sexuality, a development he found ironic given, he said, that the vast majority of the clergy he met in the Vatican were themselves gay, and that he slept with at least several of them. In the process of leaving the priesthood, Pope Francis told him he was moved by his “consistency” and “courage” and once he was out, he became the star witness of Frédéric Martel’s buzzy 2019 book “In the Closet of the Vatican,” where Mr. Lepore’s naming names and estimates of 80 percent of the Vatican being gay made a splash.
    CIPG_20210612_NYT_Gay-Vatican-Latini...jpg
  • MONREALE, ITALY - 12 JUNE 2021: (R-L) Francesco Lepore - a 45-year-old journalist and gay activist, formerly known as Father Lepore. a Catholic priest and Vatican Latinist - is seen here with his partner Michele Nicolosi (59), an Italian post office employee, her in the Benedictine Cloister in Monreale, Italy, on June 12th 2021.<br />
<br />
Mr. Lepore’s Latin column has included recent columns about “Ioannes Biden” considering “Vladimirum Putin” a “pro homicida habet” and another, about the legalization of bitcoin -- or “bito nummario” -- in El Salvador, was retweeted by that country’s president. He is the editor of GayNews.it and later this month will publish “The Crime if Giarre,” an investigation into the decades-old murder of two Sicilian gay men which helped spark Italy’s gay rights movement.<br />
<br />
His years in the corridors of power within the Roman Curia that governs the church ended badly when officials forced him out because of his sexuality, a development he found ironic given, he said, that the vast majority of the clergy he met in the Vatican were themselves gay, and that he slept with at least several of them. In the process of leaving the priesthood, Pope Francis told him he was moved by his “consistency” and “courage” and once he was out, he became the star witness of Frédéric Martel’s buzzy 2019 book “In the Closet of the Vatican,” where Mr. Lepore’s naming names and estimates of 80 percent of the Vatican being gay made a splash.
    CIPG_20210612_NYT_Gay-Vatican-Latini...jpg
  • MONREALE, ITALY - 12 JUNE 2021: (R-L) Francesco Lepore - a 45-year-old journalist and gay activist, formerly known as Father Lepore. a Catholic priest and Vatican Latinist - is seen here with his partner Michele Nicolosi (59), an Italian post office employee, her in the Benedictine Cloister in Monreale, Italy, on June 12th 2021.<br />
<br />
Mr. Lepore’s Latin column has included recent columns about “Ioannes Biden” considering “Vladimirum Putin” a “pro homicida habet” and another, about the legalization of bitcoin -- or “bito nummario” -- in El Salvador, was retweeted by that country’s president. He is the editor of GayNews.it and later this month will publish “The Crime if Giarre,” an investigation into the decades-old murder of two Sicilian gay men which helped spark Italy’s gay rights movement.<br />
<br />
His years in the corridors of power within the Roman Curia that governs the church ended badly when officials forced him out because of his sexuality, a development he found ironic given, he said, that the vast majority of the clergy he met in the Vatican were themselves gay, and that he slept with at least several of them. In the process of leaving the priesthood, Pope Francis told him he was moved by his “consistency” and “courage” and once he was out, he became the star witness of Frédéric Martel’s buzzy 2019 book “In the Closet of the Vatican,” where Mr. Lepore’s naming names and estimates of 80 percent of the Vatican being gay made a splash.
    CIPG_20210612_NYT_Gay-Vatican-Latini...jpg
  • MONREALE, ITALY - 12 JUNE 2021: (R-L) Francesco Lepore - a 45-year-old journalist and gay activist, formerly known as Father Lepore. a Catholic priest and Vatican Latinist - is seen here with his partner Michele Nicolosi (59), an Italian post office employee, her in the Benedictine Cloister in Monreale, Italy, on June 12th 2021.<br />
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Mr. Lepore’s Latin column has included recent columns about “Ioannes Biden” considering “Vladimirum Putin” a “pro homicida habet” and another, about the legalization of bitcoin -- or “bito nummario” -- in El Salvador, was retweeted by that country’s president. He is the editor of GayNews.it and later this month will publish “The Crime if Giarre,” an investigation into the decades-old murder of two Sicilian gay men which helped spark Italy’s gay rights movement.<br />
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His years in the corridors of power within the Roman Curia that governs the church ended badly when officials forced him out because of his sexuality, a development he found ironic given, he said, that the vast majority of the clergy he met in the Vatican were themselves gay, and that he slept with at least several of them. In the process of leaving the priesthood, Pope Francis told him he was moved by his “consistency” and “courage” and once he was out, he became the star witness of Frédéric Martel’s buzzy 2019 book “In the Closet of the Vatican,” where Mr. Lepore’s naming names and estimates of 80 percent of the Vatican being gay made a splash.
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  • MONREALE, ITALY - 12 JUNE 2021: Francesco Lepore - a 45-year-old journalist and gay activist, formerly known as Father Lepore, a Catholic priest and Vatican Latinist - poses for a portrait in the Benedictine Cloister in Monreale, Italy, on June 12th 2021.<br />
<br />
Mr. Lepore’s Latin column has included recent columns about “Ioannes Biden” considering “Vladimirum Putin” a “pro homicida habet” and another, about the legalization of bitcoin -- or “bito nummario” -- in El Salvador, was retweeted by that country’s president. He is the editor of GayNews.it and later this month will publish “The Crime if Giarre,” an investigation into the decades-old murder of two Sicilian gay men which helped spark Italy’s gay rights movement.<br />
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His years in the corridors of power within the Roman Curia that governs the church ended badly when officials forced him out because of his sexuality, a development he found ironic given, he said, that the vast majority of the clergy he met in the Vatican were themselves gay, and that he slept with at least several of them. In the process of leaving the priesthood, Pope Francis told him he was moved by his “consistency” and “courage” and once he was out, he became the star witness of Frédéric Martel’s buzzy 2019 book “In the Closet of the Vatican,” where Mr. Lepore’s naming names and estimates of 80 percent of the Vatican being gay made a splash.
    CIPG_20210612_NYT_Gay-Vatican-Latini...jpg
  • MONREALE, ITALY - 12 JUNE 2021: Francesco Lepore - a 45-year-old journalist and gay activist, formerly known as Father Lepore, a Catholic priest and Vatican Latinist - poses for a portrait in the Benedictine Cloister in Monreale, Italy, on June 12th 2021.<br />
<br />
Mr. Lepore’s Latin column has included recent columns about “Ioannes Biden” considering “Vladimirum Putin” a “pro homicida habet” and another, about the legalization of bitcoin -- or “bito nummario” -- in El Salvador, was retweeted by that country’s president. He is the editor of GayNews.it and later this month will publish “The Crime if Giarre,” an investigation into the decades-old murder of two Sicilian gay men which helped spark Italy’s gay rights movement.<br />
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His years in the corridors of power within the Roman Curia that governs the church ended badly when officials forced him out because of his sexuality, a development he found ironic given, he said, that the vast majority of the clergy he met in the Vatican were themselves gay, and that he slept with at least several of them. In the process of leaving the priesthood, Pope Francis told him he was moved by his “consistency” and “courage” and once he was out, he became the star witness of Frédéric Martel’s buzzy 2019 book “In the Closet of the Vatican,” where Mr. Lepore’s naming names and estimates of 80 percent of the Vatican being gay made a splash.
    CIPG_20210612_NYT_Gay-Vatican-Latini...jpg
  • MONREALE, ITALY - 12 JUNE 2021: Francesco Lepore - a 45-year-old journalist and gay activist, formerly known as Father Lepore, a Catholic priest and Vatican Latinist - looks at a tourist walking by  in the Benedictine Cloister in Monreale, Italy, on June 12th 2021.<br />
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Mr. Lepore’s Latin column has included recent columns about “Ioannes Biden” considering “Vladimirum Putin” a “pro homicida habet” and another, about the legalization of bitcoin -- or “bito nummario” -- in El Salvador, was retweeted by that country’s president. He is the editor of GayNews.it and later this month will publish “The Crime if Giarre,” an investigation into the decades-old murder of two Sicilian gay men which helped spark Italy’s gay rights movement.<br />
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His years in the corridors of power within the Roman Curia that governs the church ended badly when officials forced him out because of his sexuality, a development he found ironic given, he said, that the vast majority of the clergy he met in the Vatican were themselves gay, and that he slept with at least several of them. In the process of leaving the priesthood, Pope Francis told him he was moved by his “consistency” and “courage” and once he was out, he became the star witness of Frédéric Martel’s buzzy 2019 book “In the Closet of the Vatican,” where Mr. Lepore’s naming names and estimates of 80 percent of the Vatican being gay made a splash.
    CIPG_20210612_NYT_Gay-Vatican-Latini...jpg
  • MONREALE, ITALY - 12 JUNE 2021: Francesco Lepore - a 45-year-old journalist and gay activist, formerly known as Father Lepore, a Catholic priest and Vatican Latinist - poses for a portrait with the "Lexicon Latinum Hodiernum", a dictionary containing words, proverbs and phrases in common use in modern society translated into Latin, here in the Benedictine Cloister in Monreale, Italy, on June 12th 2021.<br />
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Mr. Lepore’s Latin column has included recent columns about “Ioannes Biden” considering “Vladimirum Putin” a “pro homicida habet” and another, about the legalization of bitcoin -- or “bito nummario” -- in El Salvador, was retweeted by that country’s president. He is the editor of GayNews.it and later this month will publish “The Crime if Giarre,” an investigation into the decades-old murder of two Sicilian gay men which helped spark Italy’s gay rights movement.<br />
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His years in the corridors of power within the Roman Curia that governs the church ended badly when officials forced him out because of his sexuality, a development he found ironic given, he said, that the vast majority of the clergy he met in the Vatican were themselves gay, and that he slept with at least several of them. In the process of leaving the priesthood, Pope Francis told him he was moved by his “consistency” and “courage” and once he was out, he became the star witness of Frédéric Martel’s buzzy 2019 book “In the Closet of the Vatican,” where Mr. Lepore’s naming names and estimates of 80 percent of the Vatican being gay made a splash.
    CIPG_20210612_NYT_Gay-Vatican-Latini...jpg
  • MONREALE, ITALY - 12 JUNE 2021: Francesco Lepore - a 45-year-old journalist and gay activist, formerly known as Father Lepore, a Catholic priest and Vatican Latinist - poses for a portrait in the Benedictine Cloister in Monreale, Italy, on June 12th 2021.<br />
<br />
Mr. Lepore’s Latin column has included recent columns about “Ioannes Biden” considering “Vladimirum Putin” a “pro homicida habet” and another, about the legalization of bitcoin -- or “bito nummario” -- in El Salvador, was retweeted by that country’s president. He is the editor of GayNews.it and later this month will publish “The Crime if Giarre,” an investigation into the decades-old murder of two Sicilian gay men which helped spark Italy’s gay rights movement.<br />
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His years in the corridors of power within the Roman Curia that governs the church ended badly when officials forced him out because of his sexuality, a development he found ironic given, he said, that the vast majority of the clergy he met in the Vatican were themselves gay, and that he slept with at least several of them. In the process of leaving the priesthood, Pope Francis told him he was moved by his “consistency” and “courage” and once he was out, he became the star witness of Frédéric Martel’s buzzy 2019 book “In the Closet of the Vatican,” where Mr. Lepore’s naming names and estimates of 80 percent of the Vatican being gay made a splash.
    CIPG_20210612_NYT_Gay-Vatican-Latini...jpg
  • MONREALE, ITALY - 12 JUNE 2021: Francesco Lepore - a 45-year-old journalist and gay activist, formerly known as Father Lepore, a Catholic priest and Vatican Latinist - poses for a portrait in the Benedictine Cloister in Monreale, Italy, on June 12th 2021.<br />
<br />
Mr. Lepore’s Latin column has included recent columns about “Ioannes Biden” considering “Vladimirum Putin” a “pro homicida habet” and another, about the legalization of bitcoin -- or “bito nummario” -- in El Salvador, was retweeted by that country’s president. He is the editor of GayNews.it and later this month will publish “The Crime if Giarre,” an investigation into the decades-old murder of two Sicilian gay men which helped spark Italy’s gay rights movement.<br />
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His years in the corridors of power within the Roman Curia that governs the church ended badly when officials forced him out because of his sexuality, a development he found ironic given, he said, that the vast majority of the clergy he met in the Vatican were themselves gay, and that he slept with at least several of them. In the process of leaving the priesthood, Pope Francis told him he was moved by his “consistency” and “courage” and once he was out, he became the star witness of Frédéric Martel’s buzzy 2019 book “In the Closet of the Vatican,” where Mr. Lepore’s naming names and estimates of 80 percent of the Vatican being gay made a splash.
    CIPG_20210612_NYT_Gay-Vatican-Latini...jpg
  • MONREALE, ITALY - 12 JUNE 2021: Francesco Lepore - a 45-year-old journalist and gay activist, formerly known as Father Lepore, a Catholic priest and Vatican Latinist - poses for a portrait in the Benedictine Cloister in Monreale, Italy, on June 12th 2021.<br />
<br />
Mr. Lepore’s Latin column has included recent columns about “Ioannes Biden” considering “Vladimirum Putin” a “pro homicida habet” and another, about the legalization of bitcoin -- or “bito nummario” -- in El Salvador, was retweeted by that country’s president. He is the editor of GayNews.it and later this month will publish “The Crime if Giarre,” an investigation into the decades-old murder of two Sicilian gay men which helped spark Italy’s gay rights movement.<br />
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His years in the corridors of power within the Roman Curia that governs the church ended badly when officials forced him out because of his sexuality, a development he found ironic given, he said, that the vast majority of the clergy he met in the Vatican were themselves gay, and that he slept with at least several of them. In the process of leaving the priesthood, Pope Francis told him he was moved by his “consistency” and “courage” and once he was out, he became the star witness of Frédéric Martel’s buzzy 2019 book “In the Closet of the Vatican,” where Mr. Lepore’s naming names and estimates of 80 percent of the Vatican being gay made a splash.
    CIPG_20210612_NYT_Gay-Vatican-Latini...jpg
  • MONREALE, ITALY - 12 JUNE 2021: Francesco Lepore - a 45-year-old journalist and gay activist, formerly known as Father Lepore, a Catholic priest and Vatican Latinist - looks at the monumental entrance of the Cathedral of Monreale, in Monreale, Italy, on June 12th 2021.<br />
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Mr. Lepore’s Latin column has included recent columns about “Ioannes Biden” considering “Vladimirum Putin” a “pro homicida habet” and another, about the legalization of bitcoin -- or “bito nummario” -- in El Salvador, was retweeted by that country’s president. He is the editor of GayNews.it and later this month will publish “The Crime if Giarre,” an investigation into the decades-old murder of two Sicilian gay men which helped spark Italy’s gay rights movement.<br />
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His years in the corridors of power within the Roman Curia that governs the church ended badly when officials forced him out because of his sexuality, a development he found ironic given, he said, that the vast majority of the clergy he met in the Vatican were themselves gay, and that he slept with at least several of them. In the process of leaving the priesthood, Pope Francis told him he was moved by his “consistency” and “courage” and once he was out, he became the star witness of Frédéric Martel’s buzzy 2019 book “In the Closet of the Vatican,” where Mr. Lepore’s naming names and estimates of 80 percent of the Vatican being gay made a splash.
    CIPG_20210612_NYT_Gay-Vatican-Latini...jpg
  • MONREALE, ITALY - 12 JUNE 2021: Francesco Lepore - a 45-year-old journalist and gay activist, formerly known as Father Lepore, a Catholic priest and Vatican Latinist - walks by the monumental entrance of the Cathedral of Monreale, in Monreale, Italy, on June 12th 2021.<br />
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Mr. Lepore’s Latin column has included recent columns about “Ioannes Biden” considering “Vladimirum Putin” a “pro homicida habet” and another, about the legalization of bitcoin -- or “bito nummario” -- in El Salvador, was retweeted by that country’s president. He is the editor of GayNews.it and later this month will publish “The Crime if Giarre,” an investigation into the decades-old murder of two Sicilian gay men which helped spark Italy’s gay rights movement.<br />
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His years in the corridors of power within the Roman Curia that governs the church ended badly when officials forced him out because of his sexuality, a development he found ironic given, he said, that the vast majority of the clergy he met in the Vatican were themselves gay, and that he slept with at least several of them. In the process of leaving the priesthood, Pope Francis told him he was moved by his “consistency” and “courage” and once he was out, he became the star witness of Frédéric Martel’s buzzy 2019 book “In the Closet of the Vatican,” where Mr. Lepore’s naming names and estimates of 80 percent of the Vatican being gay made a splash.
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  • ISOLA DELLE FEMMINE, ITALY - 12 JUNE 2021: Francesco Lepore - a 45-year-old journalist and gay activist, formerly known as Father Lepore, a Catholic priest and Vatican Latinist - poses for a portrait in Isola delle Femmine, Italy, on June 12th 2021.<br />
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Mr. Lepore’s Latin column has included recent columns about “Ioannes Biden” considering “Vladimirum Putin” a “pro homicida habet” and another, about the legalization of bitcoin -- or “bito nummario” -- in El Salvador, was retweeted by that country’s president. He is the editor of GayNews.it and later this month will publish “The Crime if Giarre,” an investigation into the decades-old murder of two Sicilian gay men which helped spark Italy’s gay rights movement.<br />
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His years in the corridors of power within the Roman Curia that governs the church ended badly when officials forced him out because of his sexuality, a development he found ironic given, he said, that the vast majority of the clergy he met in the Vatican were themselves gay, and that he slept with at least several of them. In the process of leaving the priesthood, Pope Francis told him he was moved by his “consistency” and “courage” and once he was out, he became the star witness of Frédéric Martel’s buzzy 2019 book “In the Closet of the Vatican,” where Mr. Lepore’s naming names and estimates of 80 percent of the Vatican being gay made a splash.
    CIPG_20210612_NYT_Gay-Vatican-Latini...jpg
  • ISOLA DELLE FEMMINE, ITALY - 12 JUNE 2021: Francesco Lepore - a 45-year-old journalist and gay activist, formerly known as Father Lepore, a Catholic priest and Vatican Latinist - poses for a portrait in Isola delle Femmine, Italy, on June 12th 2021.<br />
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Mr. Lepore’s Latin column has included recent columns about “Ioannes Biden” considering “Vladimirum Putin” a “pro homicida habet” and another, about the legalization of bitcoin -- or “bito nummario” -- in El Salvador, was retweeted by that country’s president. He is the editor of GayNews.it and later this month will publish “The Crime if Giarre,” an investigation into the decades-old murder of two Sicilian gay men which helped spark Italy’s gay rights movement.<br />
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His years in the corridors of power within the Roman Curia that governs the church ended badly when officials forced him out because of his sexuality, a development he found ironic given, he said, that the vast majority of the clergy he met in the Vatican were themselves gay, and that he slept with at least several of them. In the process of leaving the priesthood, Pope Francis told him he was moved by his “consistency” and “courage” and once he was out, he became the star witness of Frédéric Martel’s buzzy 2019 book “In the Closet of the Vatican,” where Mr. Lepore’s naming names and estimates of 80 percent of the Vatican being gay made a splash.
    CIPG_20210612_NYT_Gay-Vatican-Latini...jpg
  • ISOLA DELLE FEMMINE, ITALY - 12 JUNE 2021: Francesco Lepore - a 45-year-old journalist and gay activist, formerly known as Father Lepore, a Catholic priest and Vatican Latinist - poses for a portrait in Isola delle Femmine, Italy, on June 12th 2021.<br />
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Mr. Lepore’s Latin column has included recent columns about “Ioannes Biden” considering “Vladimirum Putin” a “pro homicida habet” and another, about the legalization of bitcoin -- or “bito nummario” -- in El Salvador, was retweeted by that country’s president. He is the editor of GayNews.it and later this month will publish “The Crime if Giarre,” an investigation into the decades-old murder of two Sicilian gay men which helped spark Italy’s gay rights movement.<br />
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His years in the corridors of power within the Roman Curia that governs the church ended badly when officials forced him out because of his sexuality, a development he found ironic given, he said, that the vast majority of the clergy he met in the Vatican were themselves gay, and that he slept with at least several of them. In the process of leaving the priesthood, Pope Francis told him he was moved by his “consistency” and “courage” and once he was out, he became the star witness of Frédéric Martel’s buzzy 2019 book “In the Closet of the Vatican,” where Mr. Lepore’s naming names and estimates of 80 percent of the Vatican being gay made a splash.
    CIPG_20210612_NYT_Gay-Vatican-Latini...jpg
  • MONREALE, ITALY - 11 JUNE 2021: Francesco Lepore - a 45-year-old journalist and gay activist, formerly known as Father Lepore, a Catholic priest and Vatican Latinist - poses for a portrait at the entrance of the Cathedral of Monreale, in Monreale, Italy, on June 11th 2021.<br />
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Mr. Lepore’s Latin column has included recent columns about “Ioannes Biden” considering “Vladimirum Putin” a “pro homicida habet” and another, about the legalization of bitcoin -- or “bito nummario” -- in El Salvador, was retweeted by that country’s president. He is the editor of GayNews.it and later this month will publish “The Crime if Giarre,” an investigation into the decades-old murder of two Sicilian gay men which helped spark Italy’s gay rights movement.<br />
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His years in the corridors of power within the Roman Curia that governs the church ended badly when officials forced him out because of his sexuality, a development he found ironic given, he said, that the vast majority of the clergy he met in the Vatican were themselves gay, and that he slept with at least several of them. In the process of leaving the priesthood, Pope Francis told him he was moved by his “consistency” and “courage” and once he was out, he became the star witness of Frédéric Martel’s buzzy 2019 book “In the Closet of the Vatican,” where Mr. Lepore’s naming names and estimates of 80 percent of the Vatican being gay made a splash.
    CIPG_20210611_NYT_Gay-Vatican-Latini...jpg
  • ISOLA DELLE FEMMINE, ITALY - 12 JUNE 2021: Francesco Lepore - a 45-year-old journalist and gay activist, formerly known as Father Lepore, a Catholic priest and Vatican Latinist - poses for a portrait in Isola delle Femmine, Italy, on June 12th 2021.<br />
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Mr. Lepore’s Latin column has included recent columns about “Ioannes Biden” considering “Vladimirum Putin” a “pro homicida habet” and another, about the legalization of bitcoin -- or “bito nummario” -- in El Salvador, was retweeted by that country’s president. He is the editor of GayNews.it and later this month will publish “The Crime if Giarre,” an investigation into the decades-old murder of two Sicilian gay men which helped spark Italy’s gay rights movement.<br />
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His years in the corridors of power within the Roman Curia that governs the church ended badly when officials forced him out because of his sexuality, a development he found ironic given, he said, that the vast majority of the clergy he met in the Vatican were themselves gay, and that he slept with at least several of them. In the process of leaving the priesthood, Pope Francis told him he was moved by his “consistency” and “courage” and once he was out, he became the star witness of Frédéric Martel’s buzzy 2019 book “In the Closet of the Vatican,” where Mr. Lepore’s naming names and estimates of 80 percent of the Vatican being gay made a splash.
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  • MONREALE, ITALY - 11 JUNE 2021: Francesco Lepore (center)- a 45-year-old journalist and gay activist, formerly known as Father Lepore, a Catholic priest and Vatican Latinist - is seen here by the Cathedral of Monreale as a nun passes by, in Monreale, Italy, on June 11th 2021.<br />
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Mr. Lepore’s Latin column has included recent columns about “Ioannes Biden” considering “Vladimirum Putin” a “pro homicida habet” and another, about the legalization of bitcoin -- or “bito nummario” -- in El Salvador, was retweeted by that country’s president. He is the editor of GayNews.it and later this month will publish “The Crime if Giarre,” an investigation into the decades-old murder of two Sicilian gay men which helped spark Italy’s gay rights movement.<br />
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His years in the corridors of power within the Roman Curia that governs the church ended badly when officials forced him out because of his sexuality, a development he found ironic given, he said, that the vast majority of the clergy he met in the Vatican were themselves gay, and that he slept with at least several of them. In the process of leaving the priesthood, Pope Francis told him he was moved by his “consistency” and “courage” and once he was out, he became the star witness of Frédéric Martel’s buzzy 2019 book “In the Closet of the Vatican,” where Mr. Lepore’s naming names and estimates of 80 percent of the Vatican being gay made a splash.
    CIPG_20210611_NYT_Gay-Vatican-Latini...jpg
  • MONREALE, ITALY - 11 JUNE 2021: Francesco Lepore - a 45-year-old journalist and gay activist formerly known as Father Lepore,a Catholic priest and Vatican Latinist - is seen here in the Cathedral of Monreale during a mass, in Monreale, Italy, on June 11th 2021.<br />
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Mr. Lepore’s Latin column has included recent columns about “Ioannes Biden” considering “Vladimirum Putin” a “pro homicida habet” and another, about the legalization of bitcoin -- or “bito nummario” -- in El Salvador, was retweeted by that country’s president. He is the editor of GayNews.it and later this month will publish “The Crime if Giarre,” an investigation into the decades-old murder of two Sicilian gay men which helped spark Italy’s gay rights movement.<br />
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His years in the corridors of power within the Roman Curia that governs the church ended badly when officials forced him out because of his sexuality, a development he found ironic given, he said, that the vast majority of the clergy he met in the Vatican were themselves gay, and that he slept with at least several of them. In the process of leaving the priesthood, Pope Francis told him he was moved by his “consistency” and “courage” and once he was out, he became the star witness of Frédéric Martel’s buzzy 2019 book “In the Closet of the Vatican,” where Mr. Lepore’s naming names and estimates of 80 percent of the Vatican being gay made a splash.
    CIPG_20210611_NYT_Gay-Vatican-Latini...jpg
  • MONREALE, ITALY - 11 JUNE 2021: Francesco Lepore (center) - a 45-year-old journalist and gay activist formerly known as Father Lepore,a Catholic priest and Vatican Latinist - is seen here in the Cathedral of Monreale during a mass, in Monreale, Italy, on June 11th 2021.<br />
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Mr. Lepore’s Latin column has included recent columns about “Ioannes Biden” considering “Vladimirum Putin” a “pro homicida habet” and another, about the legalization of bitcoin -- or “bito nummario” -- in El Salvador, was retweeted by that country’s president. He is the editor of GayNews.it and later this month will publish “The Crime if Giarre,” an investigation into the decades-old murder of two Sicilian gay men which helped spark Italy’s gay rights movement.<br />
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His years in the corridors of power within the Roman Curia that governs the church ended badly when officials forced him out because of his sexuality, a development he found ironic given, he said, that the vast majority of the clergy he met in the Vatican were themselves gay, and that he slept with at least several of them. In the process of leaving the priesthood, Pope Francis told him he was moved by his “consistency” and “courage” and once he was out, he became the star witness of Frédéric Martel’s buzzy 2019 book “In the Closet of the Vatican,” where Mr. Lepore’s naming names and estimates of 80 percent of the Vatican being gay made a splash.
    CIPG_20210611_NYT_Gay-Vatican-Latini...jpg
  • MONREALE, ITALY - 11 JUNE 2021: Francesco Lepore - a 45-year-old journalist and gay activist formerly known as Father Lepore,a Catholic priest and Vatican Latinist - is seen here in the Cathedral of Monreale during a mass, in Monreale, Italy, on June 11th 2021.<br />
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Mr. Lepore’s Latin column has included recent columns about “Ioannes Biden” considering “Vladimirum Putin” a “pro homicida habet” and another, about the legalization of bitcoin -- or “bito nummario” -- in El Salvador, was retweeted by that country’s president. He is the editor of GayNews.it and later this month will publish “The Crime if Giarre,” an investigation into the decades-old murder of two Sicilian gay men which helped spark Italy’s gay rights movement.<br />
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His years in the corridors of power within the Roman Curia that governs the church ended badly when officials forced him out because of his sexuality, a development he found ironic given, he said, that the vast majority of the clergy he met in the Vatican were themselves gay, and that he slept with at least several of them. In the process of leaving the priesthood, Pope Francis told him he was moved by his “consistency” and “courage” and once he was out, he became the star witness of Frédéric Martel’s buzzy 2019 book “In the Closet of the Vatican,” where Mr. Lepore’s naming names and estimates of 80 percent of the Vatican being gay made a splash.
    CIPG_20210611_NYT_Gay-Vatican-Latini...jpg
  • MONREALE, ITALY - 11 JUNE 2021: Francesco Lepore - a 45-year-old journalist and gay activist formerly known as Father Lepore,a Catholic priest and Vatican Latinist - is seen here in the Cathedral of Monreale during a mass, in Monreale, Italy, on June 11th 2021.<br />
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Mr. Lepore’s Latin column has included recent columns about “Ioannes Biden” considering “Vladimirum Putin” a “pro homicida habet” and another, about the legalization of bitcoin -- or “bito nummario” -- in El Salvador, was retweeted by that country’s president. He is the editor of GayNews.it and later this month will publish “The Crime if Giarre,” an investigation into the decades-old murder of two Sicilian gay men which helped spark Italy’s gay rights movement.<br />
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His years in the corridors of power within the Roman Curia that governs the church ended badly when officials forced him out because of his sexuality, a development he found ironic given, he said, that the vast majority of the clergy he met in the Vatican were themselves gay, and that he slept with at least several of them. In the process of leaving the priesthood, Pope Francis told him he was moved by his “consistency” and “courage” and once he was out, he became the star witness of Frédéric Martel’s buzzy 2019 book “In the Closet of the Vatican,” where Mr. Lepore’s naming names and estimates of 80 percent of the Vatican being gay made a splash.
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  • PALERMO, ITALY - 11 JUNE 2021: Francesco Lepore (right) - a 45-year-old journalist and gay activist formerly known as Father Lepore, a Catholic priest and Vatican Latinist - is seen here with his partner Mihele Nicolosi driving through  Palermo, Italy, on June 11th 2021.<br />
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Mr. Lepore’s Latin column has included recent columns about “Ioannes Biden” considering “Vladimirum Putin” a “pro homicida habet” and another, about the legalization of bitcoin -- or “bito nummario” -- in El Salvador, was retweeted by that country’s president. He is the editor of GayNews.it and later this month will publish “The Crime if Giarre,” an investigation into the decades-old murder of two Sicilian gay men which helped spark Italy’s gay rights movement.<br />
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His years in the corridors of power within the Roman Curia that governs the church ended badly when officials forced him out because of his sexuality, a development he found ironic given, he said, that the vast majority of the clergy he met in the Vatican were themselves gay, and that he slept with at least several of them. In the process of leaving the priesthood, Pope Francis told him he was moved by his “consistency” and “courage” and once he was out, he became the star witness of Frédéric Martel’s buzzy 2019 book “In the Closet of the Vatican,” where Mr. Lepore’s naming names and estimates of 80 percent of the Vatican being gay made a splash.
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  • MONREALE, ITALY - 12 JUNE 2021: (R-L) Francesco Lepore - a 45-year-old journalist and gay activist, formerly known as Father Lepore. a Catholic priest and Vatican Latinist - is seen here with his partner Michele Nicolosi (59), an Italian post office employee, her in the Benedictine Cloister in Monreale, Italy, on June 12th 2021.<br />
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Mr. Lepore’s Latin column has included recent columns about “Ioannes Biden” considering “Vladimirum Putin” a “pro homicida habet” and another, about the legalization of bitcoin -- or “bito nummario” -- in El Salvador, was retweeted by that country’s president. He is the editor of GayNews.it and later this month will publish “The Crime if Giarre,” an investigation into the decades-old murder of two Sicilian gay men which helped spark Italy’s gay rights movement.<br />
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His years in the corridors of power within the Roman Curia that governs the church ended badly when officials forced him out because of his sexuality, a development he found ironic given, he said, that the vast majority of the clergy he met in the Vatican were themselves gay, and that he slept with at least several of them. In the process of leaving the priesthood, Pope Francis told him he was moved by his “consistency” and “courage” and once he was out, he became the star witness of Frédéric Martel’s buzzy 2019 book “In the Closet of the Vatican,” where Mr. Lepore’s naming names and estimates of 80 percent of the Vatican being gay made a splash.
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  • MONREALE, ITALY - 12 JUNE 2021: Francesco Lepore - a 45-year-old journalist and gay activist, formerly known as Father Lepore, a Catholic priest and Vatican Latinist - poses for a portrait with the "Lexicon Latinum Hodiernum", a dictionary containing words, proverbs and phrases in common use in modern society translated into Latin, here in the Benedictine Cloister in Monreale, Italy, on June 12th 2021.<br />
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Mr. Lepore’s Latin column has included recent columns about “Ioannes Biden” considering “Vladimirum Putin” a “pro homicida habet” and another, about the legalization of bitcoin -- or “bito nummario” -- in El Salvador, was retweeted by that country’s president. He is the editor of GayNews.it and later this month will publish “The Crime if Giarre,” an investigation into the decades-old murder of two Sicilian gay men which helped spark Italy’s gay rights movement.<br />
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His years in the corridors of power within the Roman Curia that governs the church ended badly when officials forced him out because of his sexuality, a development he found ironic given, he said, that the vast majority of the clergy he met in the Vatican were themselves gay, and that he slept with at least several of them. In the process of leaving the priesthood, Pope Francis told him he was moved by his “consistency” and “courage” and once he was out, he became the star witness of Frédéric Martel’s buzzy 2019 book “In the Closet of the Vatican,” where Mr. Lepore’s naming names and estimates of 80 percent of the Vatican being gay made a splash.
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  • ISOLA DELLE FEMMINE, ITALY - 12 JUNE 2021: Francesco Lepore - a 45-year-old journalist and gay activist, formerly known as Father Lepore, a Catholic priest and Vatican Latinist - poses for a portrait in Isola delle Femmine, Italy, on June 12th 2021.<br />
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Mr. Lepore’s Latin column has included recent columns about “Ioannes Biden” considering “Vladimirum Putin” a “pro homicida habet” and another, about the legalization of bitcoin -- or “bito nummario” -- in El Salvador, was retweeted by that country’s president. He is the editor of GayNews.it and later this month will publish “The Crime if Giarre,” an investigation into the decades-old murder of two Sicilian gay men which helped spark Italy’s gay rights movement.<br />
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His years in the corridors of power within the Roman Curia that governs the church ended badly when officials forced him out because of his sexuality, a development he found ironic given, he said, that the vast majority of the clergy he met in the Vatican were themselves gay, and that he slept with at least several of them. In the process of leaving the priesthood, Pope Francis told him he was moved by his “consistency” and “courage” and once he was out, he became the star witness of Frédéric Martel’s buzzy 2019 book “In the Closet of the Vatican,” where Mr. Lepore’s naming names and estimates of 80 percent of the Vatican being gay made a splash.
    CIPG_20210612_NYT_Gay-Vatican-Latini...jpg
  • ISOLA DELLE FEMMINE, ITALY - 12 JUNE 2021: Francesco Lepore - a 45-year-old journalist and gay activist, formerly known as Father Lepore, a Catholic priest and Vatican Latinist - is seen here reading the "Lexicon Latinum Hodiernum", a dictionary containing words, proverbs and phrases in common use in modern society translated into Latin, in Isola delle Femmine, Italy, on June 12th 2021.<br />
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Mr. Lepore’s Latin column has included recent columns about “Ioannes Biden” considering “Vladimirum Putin” a “pro homicida habet” and another, about the legalization of bitcoin -- or “bito nummario” -- in El Salvador, was retweeted by that country’s president. He is the editor of GayNews.it and later this month will publish “The Crime if Giarre,” an investigation into the decades-old murder of two Sicilian gay men which helped spark Italy’s gay rights movement.<br />
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His years in the corridors of power within the Roman Curia that governs the church ended badly when officials forced him out because of his sexuality, a development he found ironic given, he said, that the vast majority of the clergy he met in the Vatican were themselves gay, and that he slept with at least several of them. In the process of leaving the priesthood, Pope Francis told him he was moved by his “consistency” and “courage” and once he was out, he became the star witness of Frédéric Martel’s buzzy 2019 book “In the Closet of the Vatican,” where Mr. Lepore’s naming names and estimates of 80 percent of the Vatican being gay made a splash.
    CIPG_20210612_NYT_Gay-Vatican-Latini...jpg
  • ISOLA DELLE FEMMINE, ITALY - 12 JUNE 2021: Francesco Lepore - a 45-year-old journalist and gay activist, formerly known as Father Lepore, a Catholic priest and Vatican Latinist - poses for a portrait in Isola delle Femmine, Italy, on June 12th 2021.<br />
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Mr. Lepore’s Latin column has included recent columns about “Ioannes Biden” considering “Vladimirum Putin” a “pro homicida habet” and another, about the legalization of bitcoin -- or “bito nummario” -- in El Salvador, was retweeted by that country’s president. He is the editor of GayNews.it and later this month will publish “The Crime if Giarre,” an investigation into the decades-old murder of two Sicilian gay men which helped spark Italy’s gay rights movement.<br />
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His years in the corridors of power within the Roman Curia that governs the church ended badly when officials forced him out because of his sexuality, a development he found ironic given, he said, that the vast majority of the clergy he met in the Vatican were themselves gay, and that he slept with at least several of them. In the process of leaving the priesthood, Pope Francis told him he was moved by his “consistency” and “courage” and once he was out, he became the star witness of Frédéric Martel’s buzzy 2019 book “In the Closet of the Vatican,” where Mr. Lepore’s naming names and estimates of 80 percent of the Vatican being gay made a splash.
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