Rome, Oct 27 (EFE).- The Camorra, the Neapolitan mafia, hid a boarded-up arsenal, with “weapons of war”, including a machine gun, and ten kilos of narcotics, which was located thanks to a metal detector behind a wall in a house in Caivano (southern Italy), the Carabinieri (militarized police) reported today.
Two people have been arrested after the discovery of 4 pistols, a Scorpion machine gun and 600 projectiles, as well as 6.5 kilos of hashish, 2.3 kilos of cocaine and a kilo of marijuana in the house in the center of Caivano, near Naples and where law enforcement forces have been carrying out strict controls for weeks.
The two detainees, aged 51 and 40, were arrested in possession of weapons, drugs and cash of dubious origin and in the home of one of them, adjacent to the house where the arsenal was located, equipment was found and confiscated. video surveillance with high definition cameras and a microphone.
These are “innovative trafficking methods like any company would do strategically to avoid losing market share,” according to the police, who explain that the Camorra “needs new frontiers in storage, new tricks to avoid kidnapping” of material after the latest macro-raids. in the town.
Caivano is an area with serious problems of crime, mafia and neglect, where a few weeks ago two cousins, aged 10 and 12, were raped by a group of young people in a case with great repercussions in the country and visited by the Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni. , after being invited by the local priest.
Meloni then assured that “the fruits of this visit” would “soon” be seen after recognizing that “in Caivano the failure of the State had been consummated.”
“Let it be clear that I am not intimidated by organized crime,” said Meloni after several incidents of kalasnikov shooting by young members of the Camorra on motorcycles terrorizing the people of the neighborhood after his visit, which was considered “a challenge.” to the State”. EFE
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2023-10-27 12:56:47
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