“My grandfather from Naples even told us before he passed away, it was “mandatory” to have an ARMED chaperone back then, from the girl’s side. :)”
Sounds like a scene from the Godfather when Michael was hiding out in Sicily
When my Gramps watched that scene, he just laughed. The family tugging along was overkill. All they needed was ONE armed family member just to send a message for the boy not to mess up, as told to us when we were kids. Eventually when we visited our ancestral home in naples, that tradition still exists in some pockets of mafioso-controlled cities.