Tomorrow morning, the judges of the Court of Review will examine the appeal of the lawyer Gianfranco Pilato, defender of the two arrested Frenchmen, Andre Mickael Ben Oliel, 51 years old and Assia Chabni, 40 years old, found with a load of 79 kilos of hashish, seized inside a car and found by the Goa financial police personnel, with the collaboration of the Fiamme Gialle unit of the provincial command of Agrigento, in Maddalusa, a few meters from the “Babbaluciara” beach. Agrigento was the final destination of the huge quantity of narcotics which, once placed on the market, would have brought in over 300 thousand euros at retail. The two alleged “couriers” were put in handcuffs. The two suspects who are in the “Petrusa” district prison gave their version of events during the interrogation. The fifty-one-year-old, in particular, said that his partner knew nothing and added: “I can’t tell you who commissioned the transport, if I speak they’ll kill me. I was waiting for a message to deliver the drugs.” The couple who left Marseille were headed to San Leone to deliver the “cargo”, probably to local subjects currently unknown. The operation, started from the state road 640 in the “Sacchitello” area, allowed the seizure of drugs, two cars, an Audi Rs5 with the couple on board and a Peugeot 5008, abandoned by an immigrant of Moroccan nationality who managed to escape and was believed accomplice of the two arrested. In the meantime, investigations continue to try to trace the accomplice who managed to escape into the countryside. And investigations are underway into the mobile phone found at the bottom of the river after one of the two couriers threw it away when the financiers found the drugs. The consultant of the public prosecutor Annalisa Failla, the engineer Mauro Manolo Belmonte, will also have to examine three other phones and four SIM cards seized from the man and the woman.
