Salerno, trafficking at the port: narcos favored by the absence of the scanner

In the port of Salerno In the 2023 approximately one tonne was seized cocaine: the airport of via Ligea is one of the mainItalia, among the top five, where the greatest quantity of illicit goods transits. Not only drugs but also waste and other “illegal” products. To say it once again, without half measures, was the chief prosecutor of Salerno, Giuseppe Borrelli. A statement that he had already repeated numerous times before the parliamentary Anti-Mafia commission, in the report for the inauguration of the judicial year and on the occasion of other law enforcement operations.

The lack of 3D scanner

Borrelli adds: «One ton of cocaine was seized in 2023 alone. In truth, it seems clear to me that this preference of crime for the Salerno port is in consideration of the structural deficiencies of the port, such as the absence of a 3D scanner which I understand has been in place for a long time». The chief prosecutor also recalls the largest seizure of amphetamines in the world carried out right on the docks of via Ligea, with the 14 tons Of Captagon coming from Syria and also the hundreds of containers of waste exported and then returned from Tunisia, which ended up in the context of an interactional scandal. «The control of containers at the port occurs in various ways: even without this device. Random checks are carried out which are not random and carried out manually and not without difficulty».