The huge seizure carried out in recent days by the local police of Modena in a building in the Via del Mercato area and continued in another apartment in the city amounts to more than 17 kilograms of narcotic substances.
The operation took place in the early morning of Tuesday during the checks conducted by the area operators together with the Anti-Evasion unit and the emergency operators, following reports from residents who had noticed a suspicious coming and going of people in the rooms on the ground floor of some citizens. In addition to ascertaining the presence of some foreigners of North African origin, legal in the national territory, who had sublet the reported premises, during the inspection the agents found 14 kilos and 838 grams of hashish divided into blocks and kept inside packaging open seeds.
Subsequently, the local police then carried out immediate thorough searches in other properties connected to the same tenant and in an apartment, in another area of the city, they found 2.4 kilograms of hashish divided into blocks and 20 grams of cocaine in heat-sealed doses , as well as a dog-repellent pistol without a red cap and two precision scales.
During the search, a 20-year-old Tunisian national, illegal on Italian territory and with a criminal record for other crimes, attempted several times to hit the officers in uniform to prevent them from continuing their activity.
He was then arrested for possession of narcotic substances for the purpose of dealing and for resistance, and on the orders of the magistrate on duty of the Modena Prosecutor’s Office, he was taken to the Sant’Anna prison to await validation from the judge for the preliminary investigations.
“This news – reports Camillo Po, of the Sacca Committee – does nothing but confirm how our city is under the constant defeat of thugs and criminals, the result of a defective welcome. Only a few days ago, before dinner, three hooded boys they broke into an apartment building in via Benassi and destroyed everything.
Furthermore, girls are afraid to walk through the station’s North parking lot, and at night, many kids wander into the streets to get drunk and commit vandalism.”
“La Sacca – Po’s warning – is a poorly lit neighborhood and there is no video surveillance. Furthermore, there is a lack of places for the very young and the elderly to gather and socialize. All this can only help encourage degradation and crime.”
