This contribution is inspired by a current scenario regarding the city of
Naples, Italy, where a strong popular uprising is underway against local institutions
that are destroying the Camorra murals celebrating its “heroes” died in “war”. These
events are very interesting to analyse the theme of the iconographic exploitation of
urban space by the criminal part of society in order to amplify the identity symbols
of a tribal structure such as the Camorra. While on the one hand the analysis aims to
show the positive response of civil society and institutions in eradicating these celebra tory icons of evil, on the other hand the research intends to emphasise the profound
and worrying systemic modification of public space according to subjective and nega tive canons that, however, are also shared by some intellectuals and even an adminis trative cour