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October 29, 2019They planned robberies and thefts in credit institutions and shopping centers. Then they dealt in drugs. The Gico of the Guardia di Finanza discovered the band that operated undisturbed between Rome and the province of Rieti, 9 the precautionary custody orders issued by the investigating judge. 8 in prison, one under house arrest. According to the investigators, the group was led by Lorenzo Sarracchini, multi-judged and known to Roman chronicles for various crimes, among these in particular, the robbery committed in March 2010 when, a member of a commando of 5 armed men with a covered face, including Lucio Russo and Daniele Russo, had stormed a villa in the Eur district, seizing the victims and demanding the delivery of money and valuable goods.

The escape, the arrests and the new strikes
After the coup he fled to Spain, where, in 2012, he had been tracked down and extradited to Italy. Despite everything and as the investigations have shown, Saracchini has continued to meticulously plan the execution of thefts and robberies, foiled however by the Yellow Flames. This is the case of the robbery of 2 October 2017 at the Lido di Ostia post office, where two of his accomplices were arrested. Saracchini, unscathed from the action by the blow to the post office, however, did not remain inactive; on the contrary, he reorganized himself with other old friends such as Lucio Russo and Daniele Russo, also availing himself of Giuseppe Santanastasi, to carry out the theft of a precious laboratory on the Lungotevere dei Mellini, in Rome. The plan was to act at night and force the safe after entering inside through a hole in the attic of the upstairs and uninhabited apartment. The unforeseen arrival of the caretaker and of the military was sent to wind up the plan.

The flourishing drug trade
Saracchini however was not limited to thefts and robberies but managed through other accomplices a flourishing drug trade destined for the squares of Rome. In 2017, the financiers always arrested two of his men with about a kilo cocaine. Everything was well organized and everyone had a specific task. There were those who took the drug and then took it to a photographic laboratory where it was 'cut' before being sold, in doses, on the Roman square.