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Police nab Atalanta 'ultra drug pushers' (5)

Police nab Atalanta 'ultra drug pushers' (5)

Coke-fuelled violence at Bergamo stadium

Rome, 07 March 2017, 14:03

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Italian police made several arrests Tuesday in a probe into hard-core 'ultra' fans of Atalanta who allegedly distributed drugs ahead of cocaine-fuelled violence at the Bergamo stadium. Police said "numerous individuals" were being targeted for suspected drug trafficking and distribution, extortion, robbery and resisting arrest.
    In all, 26 people are under investigation.
    Eleven are being held in prison, seven are under house arrest, three have been ordered to stay in one place and five have been ordered to report to police regularly.
    "Many" of those probed ar Atalanta fans, police said.
    The investigation, which began in November 2015, has led police to get "serious evidence" against a group of Italians as well as an Albanian citizen and a Serb, mostly Atalanta ultras, "dedicated to shifting huge quantities of drugs, among the home fans," police said. Among those probed are a 63-year-old and a 73-year-old, and the son of Brescia prosecutor Tommaso Buonanno, Francesco, police said.
    The probe "has highlighted a systematic activity of pushing on the part of some ultras to other supporters," the head of the Italian police's Central Operational Service (SCO), Alessandro Giuliano, told reporters Tuesday. The probe, lasting four to five months, Giuliano said, enabled police to document pushing in a bar adjacent to the stadium thanks to video-surveillance systems".
    Cocaine was also sold and consumed in toilets inside the stadium, Giuliano said.
    Local police said "fans loaded up on cocaine in the toilets and then went out onto the stands to fight, with their hoods closed" to avoid identification.
    The Bergamo probe "is the confirmation of the solidity of our investigation to get at the murky links between fan groups and criminal gangs," the chair of the Mafia and Sport Committee of the parliamentary anti-mafia commission, Marco Di Lello of the ruling centre-left Democratic Party (PD), also told ANSA on Tuesday. "We will go ahead with our investigations, convinced there is more to discover," he said.
   

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