Drugs, maxiblitz in Palermo: 58 arrests. Family-run shop and baby pusher

Three organizations that ran the shop in as many districts of Palermo were routed. The carabinieri of the company of San Lorenzo this morning carried out 31 precautionary measures signed by the investigating judge of the court at the request of the deputy prosecutor of the Dda Salvatore De Luca. Eight suspects ended up in prison, while another 23 are under house arrest. The 31 arrested are accused in various ways of criminal association aimed at drug trafficking and drug dealing. The three groups managed the shopping squares of Partanna Mondello, Borgo Nuovo and San Giovanni Apostolo. The drug wholesalers who supplied half the city of Palermo were in Ballarò. Two years of investigations by the carabinieri from 2019 to 2020 have made it possible to discover how the three associations of traffickers who were eliminated this morning with the blitz that led to the execution of 31 precautionary measures (8 in prison and 23 under house arrest) were supplied. Both the group from Partanna Mondello and those from Borgo Nuovo and San Giovanni Apostolo were supplied with supplies in the alleys of the historic city market, which for years had become a crossroads for large drug trafficking. A common denominator that did not stop at the sharing of the wholesaler, but also with the management of the drug. Investigators also recorded drug exchanges between groups in case of need, so as not to make the drug go missing in the marketplaces. No war to extend the drug dealing territories, but rather a close collaboration between the three criminal associations. The three smuggling organizations had an annual turnover of over half a million according to the estimates of the carabinieri of Palermo. A volume that the investigators have calculated in light of the various seizures carried out during the investigation period (12 kilograms of drugs) on the sidelines of the 13 red flag arrests. A figure that does not take into account the transfers to the pushers of the municipalities of the province of Palermo and of the other Sicilian provinces