Palermo – The Carabinieri of the Messina provincial command carried out a vast anti-drug operation in Sicily, Calabria, and in other locations in the national territory and abroad, with the execution of 112 arrests. The precautionary measures issued by the investigating judge of the Court of Messina at the request of the Prosecutor’s Office (85 in prison and 27 under house arrest) hypothesize – for various reasons – the crimes of association aimed at the detention, trafficking, cultivation and sale of narcotics, self-laundering, fraudulent transfer of valuables, illegal carrying and alteration of weapons, extortion and other crimes.
The restrictive measures arise from the results of three separate investigations, conducted by the Carabinieri of the Messina Sud and Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto companies, all under the coordination of the District Anti-Mafia Directorate of Messina, which simultaneously dismantled several criminal organizations active in drug trafficking in the city of Messina and in the province with links to Calabrian criminal structures and subjects also active in Campania, Lombardy and abroad. The details of the operation will be illustrated during a press conference to be held by the Prosecutor of Messina, at 10.30 am, at the Palace of Justice.
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