(ANSAmed) - SALERNO, JULY 1 - Italian police on Wednesday
seized 14 tonnes of drugs produced by ISIS in Syria to fund
terror, in the port of Salerno south of Naples.
The drugs were amphetamines and a synthetic drug called
captagon, which is used across the Middle East to ease fear,
fatigue and pain among fighters, and which was found in the lair
of the 2015 Bataclan terrorists in Paris. Capragon has been
dubbed "the ISIS drug" or "the Jihad drug".
The 84 million pills, the biggest haul ever, had a street
value of over one billion euros, they said.
The drugs were hidden in paper cylinders for industrial use,
and machinery built in such a way as to elude scanners, police
said.
ISIS uses captagon and other amphetamines for all its
fighters, and controls its distribution across the Middle
East.(ANSAmed).
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