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New York Times
2 Jan 2025
Emma BubolaGianni Cipriano


NextImg:Naples, Italy: A Popular Tourist Destination Suffering from Violence and Unemployment

As tourists followed the smell of fried pizza, posed by white and blue murals of Diego Maradona and marveled at the decadent beauty of Naples, an 18-year-old boy and 26-year-old twin sisters were killed as the makeshift fireworks factory where they worked blew up.

Their burned, mutilated bodies were found among the explosives and the cans of detergent they also bottled for a living in a house amid olive trees and orange groves near the ancient Roman citadel Herculaneum, outside Naples.

The deaths in November of the three young Neapolitans, who took the risky jobs for about 25 euros, or $26, a day because they could not find better ones, highlighted how, despite Naples’s recent hype and tourism boom, it remains a merciless city for many of its own young people.

“Naples is like a tomb,” said Adamo Dumbia, 38, after he shoveled dirt on the grave of Samuel Tafciu, his stepdaughter’s fiancé, who died in the blast. “It’s pretty from the outside, but you don’t want to see what is inside.”

ImageA building lies in rubble against the background of rolling peaks and partly cloudy skies.
The makeshift fireworks factory near Naples that blew up in November, killing the 26-year-old sisters and Samuel Tafciu, 18.
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Candles and flowers at the gravesite of Sara and Aurora Esposito. The women worked off the books making fireworks because they had no other options, a sister said.

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