The trafficking of amphetamines Salerno is the European hub – breaking latest news

SALERNO. Gioia Tauro is the cocaine hub in Italy, where 50% of this drug has arrived; Salerno, on the other hand, is the gateway for amphetamines to be spread in Europe. These two ports are at the center of the anti-drug activities of the police forces in Italy and, often, the Salerno port is a port used by the ‘Ndrangheta as an alternative to the Calabrian port. A sad record for Salerno, reaffirmed on the day of the presentation of the report on drugs in Europe, held at the Central Directorate for Drug Services of the Department of Public Security. «The report shows – said the Deputy Chief of Police and Central Director of the Criminal Police, Prefect Vittorio Rizzi – the resilience of criminal organizations to the pandemic. In 2020, after the very first phase of lockdown, illicit trafficking quickly resumed looking for new routes and ways of concealing drugs ».
The cocaine boom. The number of anti-drug operations in Italy is in line with the average of the last decade, about 23 thousand, as well as that of complaints, about 33 thousand, while the total seizures of drugs, in all 58 tons, are higher than in 2019 (+7, 41%). And it is an absolute record of cocaine seizures, which reached 13.4 tons with an increase of 62.2% compared to 2019, a year which in national statistics had already marked the never reached milestone of 8.2 tons seized. The data for the first months of the current year seem to confirm this growing trend, with a consistently high level.
The Balkan route. Italy has become a hub of cocaine for the Balkan peninsula, as demonstrated by various international controlled deliveries to countries in that area, where organized criminal groups operate that have now consolidated a leading role in drug trafficking, developing important “joint venture ”with the South American cartels. And it is the Calabrian ‘Ndrangheta that holds the monopoly of the international drug trafficking of “coca”. Last year’s operation against cocaine trafficking could also be included in this framework with the alliance between Albanian criminals and Salerno offenders who wanted to make the city a hub for this drug.
Cannabis and heroin. Cannabis derivatives remain the most seized drugs of all, 29.6 tons, in addition to 414,396 plants, a sign of an ever-high level of demand. The quantities seized of heroin are stable compared to the average of the last five years, half a ton, down compared to 2019.
Sos synthetic drugs. The “Captagon” operation of the Finance of Salerno has caused the volumes of synthetic drug trafficking in Italy to skyrocket. Virtually all of the quantity seized in the country was seized in Salerno. The 14 tons of amphetamines discovered in May last year in the commercial port were destined for various foreign markets, given that Italian consumption is limited even if growing among young people who use the web and social platforms to buy in the squares of I digitally sell substances, delivered to your home using various channels including, for example, disguises as a rider or other unique forms of camouflage.
Campania data. In the province of Naples, 64% of the anti-drug operations carried out on the regional territory were carried out; 17.55% in Salerno, 11.19% in Caserta, 3.92% in Avellino and 3.34% in Benevento. Another fact that worries for Salerno, if compared above all to Casertano and its criminal presence. In the province of Salerno, 92.24% of the drugs seized in Campania, 5.50% in Naples, 2.09% in Caserta, 0.09% in Avellino and 0.08% were seized. in Benevento: on the Salerno figure, however, the 14 tons of Captagon weigh.
The trafficking of the clans. The province of Salerno is characterized by the presence of “federations of criminal groups” and autonomous delinquent organizations, engaged in bloody struggles for the control of the territory and, often, in contact with other groups attributable to the ‘Ndrangheta and the Apulian criminal organizations. The province of Avellino, a buffer area between Campania and Puglia, is characterized by frequent alliances between local criminal organizations, from Campania and Puglia, specialized in drug trafficking. The contacts with the Albanians, from Salerno, in fact, often pass through the Avellino area.
Salvatore De Napoli
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