On Friday, the Guardia di Finanza discovered a cache of weapons buried in the sand near the beach of Capannine, near Catania, in eastern Sicily. A man, Salvatore Raciti, descendant of a large family from the Etna region and owner of a bathing establishment, was arrested. The weapons were found in two tanks, in individual plasticized packages. 24 handguns, 6 rifles (semi-automatic, pump or double barrel), a machine gun, a Kalashnikov assault rifle (all these weapons with abrading serial numbers), 3,000 ammunitions of different calibers and equipment carrying or cleaning weapons have been seized.