From the first light of dawn, the carabinieri of the company Rome Center, in the provinces of Rome, Frosinone and Turin, are executing an ordinance that provides for the custody in prison for 10 people, 7 of Moroccan origin, an Algerian, an Italian and an Albanian who had given rise to an international trafficking of drugs, mainly hashish, imported from Morocco, via Spain, and then distributed in the main Roman dealing squares, but also in other Italian provinces.
The operation, conventionally called "NADIR 2", was carried out by the carabinieri of the company's operating unit Rome Center, coordinated by District Anti-Mafia Directorate and with the fundamental contribution of the Central Directorate for Anti-Drug Services (DCSA).
The criminal group treated substantial quantities of narcotic drugs, hashish, marijuana and cocaine, adopting sophisticated tactics both to hide the drug, using "deposit cars" parked in strategic places and for the shop, burying medium-sized quantities in parks and flowerbeds, for then withdraw the single doses in such a way as to reduce the "damage" in case of intervention by law enforcement agencies.
The sales to final buyers, carried out by the organization's pushers, were mainly dedicated to consumers in the nightlife areas of Pigneto; Saint Lawrence; Trastevere; Campo de 'Fiori; Lungotevere, but also to the traditional shopping squares in the districts of Tor Bella Monaca, Centocelle, Borghesiana and Alessandrina. In the management of the shop in San Lorenzo, in June 2016, the suspected Moroccan citizens, after a violent brawl, put a gang of Tunisian drug dealers on the run who wanted to settle in "their" shop square. Equally violent was the discipline exercised in the group against those who made mistakes who suffered interrogations by the leaders, physical violence for any supposed infidelity or lack of caution in the management of their duties.
The investigation by the carabinieri of the operational nucleus of the Roma Centro company made it possible to ascertain responsibility towards 28 people who were investigated, to carry out a further 38 arrests in flagrantee for dealing as well as the seizure on the entire Italian territory of a total of 16 KG. of hashish, 4 KG. of marijuana and 7 KG. of cocaine.
Also in the course of the investigations, reports of some suspects were identified with leading exponents of the “Polverino-Orlando” Camorra clan of Marano di Napoli, who had come to Rome for various summits; 2 dangerous fugitives were also arrested in Spain, hit by international arrest orders for drug-related offenses, one of whom, an Italian, found in possession of about 200 kg of hashish and 3 kg of cocaine at his villa-bunker in Andalusia.
