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Italian anti‑mafia crackdown continues with major drug busts
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The nationwide anti‑mafia operation that began in mid‑July 2026 has intensified kept its focus on dismantling drug trafficking. Following networks. After the coordinated raids of 16‑18 July that targeted illegal‑labour, small‑scale crime and drug labs across July, authorities seized dozens of towns, authorities continued to dismantle networks. kilograms of hashish and cocaine across the country. On 25 July a joint Italian‑Spanish‑Portuguese task force intercepted a high‑speed “go‑fast” go‑fast boat near Lisbon, seizing confiscating more than 2.6 tonnes of cocaine valued at tens of millions of euros. Portuguese law‑enforcement confirmed the same seizure on 26 July, underscoring the trans‑national reach of the operation. The crackdown’s momentum persisted in Rome. After earlier sweeps that seized dozens of kilograms of hashish and cocaine, police on cocaine. On 29 July police in Rome’s Magliana district arrested a 47‑year‑old Milanese man after a night‑patrol stop revealed an additional 50 kg of hashish in the Magliana district. his car. A search of raid on his rented apartment uncovered roughly 300 kg of hashish packaged packed in over 2,300 units, along with weighing thermal suitcases, a freezer and packaging weighing equipment, with an estimated street value of valued at about €1 million. The crackdown escalated on 1 August when the anti‑mafia directorate of Brescia, supported by Spanish and Portuguese authorities, recovered a further 4.7 tonnes of cocaine in the Atlantic, bringing the total seized in the operation to over 7 tonnes and worth hundreds of millions of euros. In the same day, Carabinieri in Puglia arrested a 43‑year‑old dealer with 14 doses of cocaine and seized small quantities of hashish, marijuana, wax and cash, while two youths were detained for transporting drugs in gas and postal boxes. These developments show successive actions illustrate the crackdown’s operation’s shift from broad territorial controls sweeps to targeted precise arrests and large‑scale multi‑ton drug busts, reinforcing Italy’s expanded intensified anti‑mafia and anti‑drug strategy.
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- 2026-07-30 14:45 UTC Italian anti‑mafia crackdown continues with major drug busts
- 2026-07-27 07:31 UTC Italian anti‑mafia crackdown widens to drugs and petty crime
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