The Brescia State Police carried out a precautionary custody order in prison issued by the GIP of the Brescia Court against 12 subjects, of which 9 Moroccans, 2 Albanians and one Italian.
The subjects, between the months of May and December 2018, were responsible for numerous episodes of drug dealing, which were organized according to very specific schemes by an organized group headed by two Moroccan brothers, who had his organizational headquarters in a private club in Lonato (BS).
The group, made up of 6 people, was organized into a real criminal association, headed by the two Moroccan brothers, who made use of other 4 compatriots participating in the criminal organization, with well-defined hierarchies and tasks that varied from delivery, to the purchase material, up to the possession of drugs, cocaine and hashish while the two Moroccan Germans at the head of the organization, proceeded to give the orders, to determine the selling price of the cocaine, to identify and order the purchases of the drug (price and quantity), up to the identification of strategies to allow the survival of the group.
In this regard, the Lonato club gradually emerged as a real driving force around which the entire organizational machine set up by the Moroccan Germans revolved: the latter, in fact, constituted the facade of the criminal activities set up by the association. , which took advantage of the apparently lawful activity to meet suppliers, make an agreement with the "customers" wholesalers receiving drugs from other provinces, thus ultimately a meeting place to consolidate relations with particularly important players in the drug market.
Investigators believe that, throughout the second half of 2018, the brothers and their association bought and sold, with several dozen individual transfers, about 50 kg of narcotic substance to buyers from different areas of Italy, including Mantua. , Trento, Trieste and Verona, as well as a dense network of contacts throughout the province of Brescia.
The seizure of 200 thousand euros in cash against one of the current suspects also proves the significant turnover.
The Moroccans, always kept under control by the policemen of the Flying Squad, moved with the organization´s cars, through which they reached the various locations where the meetings for the sale of the drug took place.
The supplies of the narcotic ranged from one hundred grams to over 1 kg. In particular, it was the 4 Moroccans who, following the directives of the Germans, took the drug from the place of custody (an old farmhouse in Bedizzole), then transported it and delivered it to the customer, at the price that had already been decided and imposed by the two brothers. at the head of the organization. The latter, in fact, in order to avoid being involved in drug trafficking, after the initial agreements that took place mostly in the Lonato club, left the executive phase directly to their 4 associates.
In some cases, moreover, it was ascertained that the association of Moroccans needed to obtain additional narcotic substances, generally cocaine, as, at the end of November 2018, they had run out of their reserves.
In this sense, in fact, there have been numerous intercepted calls in which the Moroccan (from time to time competent to follow the customer) asserted on the phone that he was "sick", thus making the buyer understand that the group was temporarily devoid of narcotics. .
In this sense, on 23 November 2018, the investigators of the Flying Squad ascertained the purchase of 1 kg of cocaine by the Moroccan association, always managed by the top of the organization, by an unidentified Albanian subject.
In this perspective, numerous circumstantial elements have been collected that lead to believe that the purchase took place, by one of the organization's couriers, in Calcinato for the sum of 29 thousand euros, as an advance.
The subsequent episode of cocaine supply, which also led to the arrest of one of the Moroccans belonging to the criminal association, took place on 20 December 2018, when the police, after documenting an evident transfer of about 1.2 kg of cocaine from part of an Albanian, currently under investigation, set out in pursuit of the Moroccan, who, aboard the usual car of the organization, took a daring escape, also covering some agricultural fields to escape the control of the police.
During the escape, in fact, the Moroccan had also got rid of the paper bag containing the cocaine he had just received, and then managed to escape to his home located in Bedizzole.
After having ascertained the concrete trend of the facts and having recovered the abandoned narcotic substance, the policemen went to his home, where, after having tracked down two other Moroccan suspects today, they carried out the arrest of the judicial police against the man runaway.
The incident also allowed investigators to put a magnifying glass on the Albanian cocaine supplier from Travagliato. The man, in fact, who met the leaders of the criminal association aboard a luxury car, was responsible, on the basis of the reconstruction carried out by the Police, for several transfers for at least 6 kg of cocaine, with a consideration of several tens of thousands of euros.
In conclusion, this last story was particularly useful to ascertain not only the meticulous organization set up by the association also in the refueling phase, as already seen in the previous paragraph, but also to fully identify the Albanian citizen, who later turned out to be one of the their main suppliers.
In fact, it was found that, on one occasion, the group of Moroccans had paid an advance of 19 thousand euros for 2 kilos of cocaine, while, in another episode, the advance was 59 thousand euros for a further three kilos.
Among the main customers of the organization there are, in particular, four sales made in favor of a forty year old Albanian from Trento, who always bought similar quantities, for about 50 gr. of cocaine and 200 gr. of hashish.
The sales were ascertained starting from 18 June 2018, when the interception activity captured a conversation in which one of the Moroccans of the organization reassured the Albanian buyer about his health conditions, claiming to be "cured" after a period of illness, conversation which, as later ascertained, intended to make the other interlocutor understand that the group had refueled again, after a period in which the drug was over.
The latter, in jargon, was nicknamed with different nicknames, almost always attributable to minutes (grams) or hours (etti): in fact, in this case, the Albanian spoke of "50 minutes and 2 tires", which allowed the parties to understand both the quantity and the type of drug required.
In particular, on 11 July 2018, the Albanian sent, as his own gallop, an Italian woman of 44, his ex-wife to purchase the drug from the group. The latter, kept under control, was arrested on the same date in the province of Trento, as she was found in possession of 53 grams of cocaine and 200 grams of hashish, a drug that would have yielded a sum of about 10 thousand euros following the retail sale. .
Furthermore, in the days following the arrest of the Italian citizen, demonstrating the consolidated illicit relationship between the Albanian buyer and the Moroccan seller, the former expressed the need to find a "worthy replacement" for his ex-wife, to avoid being forced to go personally and dangerously to meetings with the Maghreb.
Also in the summer of 2018, other important sales took place and, in particular, at least four of cocaine and hashish in favor of an Italian from the province of Trieste.
The latter was found to be particularly active in the drug market, so much so that he specifically required large quantities of cocaine as "a friend from Milan had come down with 50kg of smoke", thus referring to not needing hashish at the time.
The first contacts certified by the investigators take place in the Brescia province, where the boy went to buy a few pounds of cocaine for several thousand euros; in particular, the contacts between the two, which took place by telephone on August 3, 2018, materialized on August 7, when a courier from the Moroccan group brought the man a hectogram of cocaine for the payment of 4100 euros.
Relations between the two were cemented throughout the summer, so much so that, on one occasion, the Trieste-born, upon payment of a surcharge, was also able to obtain home delivery at the Trieste station.
During the investigation, as a result, 5 people were arrested and 1,5 kg of cocaine and over 4 kg of hashish seized.
In light of the episodes outlined and of all the other fine crimes ascertained by the judicial police with the coordination of the Brescia Public Prosecutor's Office, the GIP has embraced the line of investigators, who investigated the various partners in the criminal organization for the crime referred to in art. 74 DPR 309/1990, an association aimed at drug trafficking, of which two with the role of leaders of the association and another four with the role of participants. For the others, criminal responsibility has been recognized pursuant to art. 73 of Presidential Decree 309/90.