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and the United States enables this criminality to move rapidly, to react to newsituations. The capacity to act in silence, to not be a source of social alarm, to evenhide from its “workers”, the real entity of trafficking allows these groups to makethe organisation level invisible concealed behind the activities undertaken.In Italy the Nigerian criminal presence is concentrated in some areas andprincipally in the North, in Piedmont and in Veneto; the south is noted for theabsence of such criminality with the notable exception of Campania and, even if ina minor measure, of Lazio.Campania, or better the Domitian area between Naples and Caserta, is a stableinstallation since about twenty years, of regular and irregular 14 Nigerians, inparticular in the city of Castelvolturno. The criminality installed here shouldobviously discount the hegemony of the Italian organisations, and in particular inthe area of Caserta, the clan of the Casalesi: the local organisation is essential toallow criminal activities to be undertaken.One should say however that a balance has been arrived at in which theNigerians are allowed a good margin of autonomy, to undertake the drug trade andin particular to work undisturbed in the exploitation of prostitution. If for the drugtrade we can imagine the existence of an agreement between this ethnic group andthe Camorra clan, for the trafficking in women for sexual exploitation the situationappears to be that of total autonomy, apart from the exploitation by Italiancriminality of the possibility of profit that such an activity offers them by the loanof collateral services (for example the renting of apartments or management ofcommercial activities) and the control of the territory.The Domitian littoral is noted as being a dominating presence on the road ofNigerian women and the city of Castelvolturno is one of the centres of residence ofa good part of the madams even though operating in other territories of Italy.According to the operators of a community which for years has worked in this city,the Nigerian citizens are so rooted in the territory as to have created well structuredcontacts with the other Nigerian communities in Italy and to have fixed within thatcontext the thinking head of the organisation which manages the traffic and theexploitation of prostitution.Such affirmations are difficult to support with statistical data, but it isundoubtedly true that the Domitian littoral appears to be the territory in Campaniawhere the areas of irregularity and criminality are mainly concentrated involvingthe migrant population, with particular reference to the Nigerians, Albanians andNorth Africans (drug traffic, exploitation of prostitution, exploitation of workers,etc.).Piedmont is characterised with the concentration of Nigerian criminality in thecapital of the region, which is the principal place of habitual residence of thewomen who prostitute themselves in the provincial, regional territory and in certaincities such as Novara, Milan, Genoa and Piacenza.In Triveneto there is also an important presence of Nigerian prostitutes in thearea between the provinces of Padua and Treviso and around Verona. In the past14For data on citizens staying see Table 2 and the considerations in paragraph 1.