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The Underworld Podcast

The Knife Fighting Italian Gangster Who Built an Army while in Prison

The Underworld Podcast

The Underworld Podcast

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.6871 Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

The Camorra clans of Naples had always played second fiddle to the Sicilian Mafia and the Calabrian 'Ndranghetta. Until Raffaelle Cutolo started building up his Nuovo Camorra Organization while locked up in a notorious prison. When he wasn't writing poetry or challenging other bosses to knife fights, his old school charisma and genius leadership skills, as well as his insanity, saw him take a small prison crew and build it into an army of thousands ready to die for him. Many of his soldiers would get that opportunity as he started a war trying to rule all of Naples, but it was his battles with the government that ended up really taking their toll. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Naples, Italy, 1977.

0:04.0

Raphaelo has just busted out of prison for the second time, and he's about to go on a recruiting

0:09.7

bench.

0:10.7

He's been building a new Camarra clan from scratch, not an easy thing to do, earning quite the name for himself in the notorious Pojo reality prison, where he's being held on a murder charge.

0:21.0

That'll happen when he challenge a Camar head to an old school

0:24.4

knife fight and he backs down. Kutuz played his cards right, adapted to the

0:29.3

prison rolls pretty shrewdly, and was already forming up a pretty solid group behind bars that is incredibly

0:34.8

loyal to him. In no time, he's going to have thousands of loyal soldiers and his

0:39.2

Nuevo Kamore organization that he's been putting together with a strict hierarchy, unlike the other much

0:45.2

more looser Camar clans.

0:47.6

He's old school and he's been imparting the old Camar Ways on all of his new recruits.

0:53.0

There's a reason they call him the professor.

0:55.7

He's also insanely charismatic, something like a natural-born leader

0:59.8

or a cult leader.

1:01.8

His power has been skyrocketing by this point and he basically runs all

1:05.8

the prisons in Naples but that's not enough. Even though we started the

1:10.0

organization behind bars he's looking to expand as far as possible on the outside,

1:14.3

and he's going to use his newly acquired freedom to spread far past Naples. He's also

1:19.6

going to let his massive power go to his head a bit and demand tribute from all the other

1:23.8

more clans even those tied into the Sicilian mafia they're not going to take it

1:29.2

well and this one man in between ripping off earthquake reconstruction funds and threatening high-level ministers in the government,

1:37.0

is going to lead everyone into the bloodiest Camar War in history, as he looks to fully take over Naples. This is the

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