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01 October 2019Hard to the drug market inflicted by the Palermo state police. With the "Green Finger" operation, the Flying Squad, on delegation of the District Anti-Mafia Directorate, carried out dozens of precautionary measures against as many criminals responsible for criminal association aimed at trafficking, even internationally, of drugs, which had activated a whirlwind round of drugs, where the Palermo square was a fundamental junction, in the transition from wholesale to retail drugs. Dismantled two criminal organizations, independent and unrelated to each other, specializing respectively in procuring large loads of cocaine and hashish. Twenty arrests throughout Italy. In the first case, the routes, connections and relationships between members of the criminal association with subjects of the criminal underworld, including international ones, were recorded, which from Argentina, after European intermediate stages, would have sent large quantities of cocaine. In the second case, the relevant loads of hashish arrived in the capital would have been distributed in other provinces and the Palermo square would have assumed a role of regional and inter-provincial drug collection, as well as a sorting center. The hashish, often coming from suppliers in Morocco, would have remained in storage in warehouses in northern Italy until it was purchased by Palermo sodals and only then would have been made to travel to the capital's vaults. Significant on the scope of the dismantled drug tour, the amount of hashish monitored entering the capital, estimated at over a thousand kilograms, 700 of which were seized in more tranches by the State police with the relative arrest of the couriers. Also noteworthy are the seizures of cannabis crops carried out by the Flying Squad in the Palermo area.