Palermo drug dealing near children at Sperone: how it worked

Last Updated: May 22, 2024

Palermo, lo spaccio allo Sperone anche davanti ai bambini: ecco come funzionava

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At Sperone, drugs were also sold in front of young children, without any problem. This is what the investigations by the mobile squad agents and the SCO say, who carried out a pre-trial custody order by the judge for 26 suspects in Palermo. Twenty-one of them ended up in prison, and the others are under house arrest.

They are accused, for various reasons, of association aimed at drug trafficking aggravated by mafia methods and drug dealing. The investigation, coordinated by the district anti-mafia directorate led by prosecutor Maurizio de Lucia, has allowed a blow to the drug trade in the Sperone and Brancaccio neighborhoods.

After an initial check by the agents in what are historically considered among the main drug dealing areas in the city, the ongoing investigations have allowed the acquisition of elements suitable for reconstructing what was happening in the Sperone neighborhood, in the area between Viale Di Vittorio, Passaggio, and Trimarchi, with the delineation of the roles of some of the suspects.

Activated a video surveillance service in order to monitor continuously and systematically the presence and behavior of the people under preliminary investigations, with further services for recording and listening to conversations held by other people under preliminary investigations with their cell phones.

It didn’t take long, according to what is read in the order, to discover that there was a systematic and continuous illegal commercialization of drugs, especially hashish and cocaine, carried out by numerous people daily from early morning until late in the evening, even in the presence of young children, and that all this was attributable and attributable to a larger criminal structure, to which numerous people adhered, articulated according to hierarchical principles and division of functions. Just like a production line that worked like clockwork.

The words of Mayor Lagalla: “I express my appreciation and deep gratitude to the Chief of Police and the Mobile Squad of Palermo for the brilliant operation that led to the arrest of 26 people, thus dismantling a vast drug trafficking network between Sperone and Brancaccio. Another tangible sign of the great commitment that all law enforcement agencies, coordinated by the judiciary, are putting in place to combat drug trafficking in the city.” This is how the Mayor of Palermo, Roberto Lagalla, reacted.