(ANSA) - ANCONA, 31 JAN - Arrests and searches have taken place throughout Italy as part of an operation by the State Police, coordinated by the District Anti-Mafia Directorate of Ancona, against members of a criminal organization dedicated to aiding and abetting illegal immigration with projections transnational.
Three precautionary measures carried out.
The operation arose from the investigations connected to the terrorist attack of 19 December 2016 in Berlin by the Tunisian Anis Amri.
Preliminary custody in prison has been ordered for two Tunisian citizens, while house arrest has been ordered for a third person, also from the North African country.
More than 40 searches in progress against as many people.
The perdelinquere association aimed at aiding clandestine immigration with the aggravating circumstance of transnationality is contested.
During the police operation, underway throughout Italy as part of a police operation coordinated by the DDA of Ancona, against representatives of a criminal organization dedicated to aiding and abetting clandestine immigration with a transnational projection, the Macerata Police Headquarters 44 searches were carried out against 18 suspects for various crimes and 26 other people, found to be contiguous in various capacities with the criminal organization and all certified in the provinces of Ancona, Fermo, Ferrara, Catanzaro, Modena, Macerata, Syracuse and Verona.
Among the sites on which the attention of the Anti-Mafia District Directorate of Ancona was focused, there is also a Fiscal Assistance Center - Caf in the Macerata area and a farmhouse in the countryside of the same province, the usual destination for foreigners who arrived in Italy in a state of clandestinity.
The operation called "Wet shoes" takes its name from a conversation intercepted by the investigators during a disembarkation of migrants in Mazara del Vallo, in which one of the associates points out that he is afraid of being controlled by the Police Forces, with the newly landed foreigners on board , as they still had "wet shoes".
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