The drug war in Rome, maxi blitz: 27 arrests
The carabinieri dismantled two Italian-Albanian gangs. One of the two chiefs was a friend of Piscitelli

Maxi anti-drug blitz in Rome where, at dawn today, January 18, the carabinieri arrested 27 people . The military thus carried out an order, issued by the magistrate of the court of Rome at the request of the district anti-mafia management of the Rome prosecutor's office.

The carabinieri of the investigative nucleus of Rome and Frascati have reconstructed, in detail, the criminal events of two Italo-Albanian groups (the head of one of the two was close to Fabrizio Piscitelli), in conflict with each other.

The two groups, according to the investigations, were equipped with a solid organizational structure and with the availability of weapons and ready to fire in case of need. Both groups are also permanently engaged in the sale of large quantities of cocaine and hashish destined for the most flourishing drug dealing centers in the capital.

The 27 people are seriously suspected, for various reasons, of an association aimed at drug trafficking aggravated by the mafia method, sale and possession for the purpose of dealing, extortion, damage following fire, possession and carrying in a public place of firearms .