Twelve people were arrested yesterday in Messina in execution of definitive measures: they were recognized guilty, in various capacities, of criminal association aimed at drug trafficking. The measures close the judicial vein born after two ambushes with a gunshot in the carousel district.
The investigation
The investigation, launched in January 2017 by the Mobile Squad and coordinated by the Messina District Anti -Mafia Directorate, reconstructed a network consisting of several cells, activated in the shop of different substances within a building area of the Popular Messina neighborhood.
Kidnappings and measures
In May 2021 52 precautionary measures had already taken and the preventive seizure of movable property, properties and financial resources for over 300 thousand euros attributable to the suspects. Yesterday’s arrests execute the judgments that have been res judicata.