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  • Aside from expertise in the extortion and protection rackets -- and lately in drug-smuggling activities rivaling those of the mafia -- the camorra was renowned in earlier times for the sfregio, a knife or razor cut inflicted on the face of a victim, marking the person for life.

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIII No 1 1986

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