Naples - Vico dei Candelari, in the heart of Forcella, a stone labyrinth where light struggles to filter through. The air is thick, saturated with humidity and the hum of air conditioners, lined up like sentinels between the facades of buildings.
The space is narrow: just a meter and a half separates one wall from the other, in a tangle of electrical cables, faded flags and motionless pigeons, almost as if they were part of the landscape.
The green curtains, stretched out on the balconies, seem to want to hide private lives, but the noises do not lie. Voices, laughter, arguments. And someone, despite everything, still hangs out the laundry outside, even if the sun, in that narrow street, only reaches for a few minutes a day.
The police raid
I Carabinieri of the Operational Nucleus of the Stella Company are already in action, camouflaged among the passers-by. One group advances silently along Vico dei Candelari, the other is positioned between Vico dei Tinellari and Via Carbonara, near an abandoned altar, where once there was a sacred effigy and now only dried up weeds grow.
Someone sniffs the air. “It smells like a raid,” they whisper. They are not tourists: their gaze is too attentive. But by now it is too late. A woman appears on a balcony on the second floor. In her hand she has a black backpack. A moment of hesitation, then she throws it down into the alley.
The military saw everything. While one team breaks into the house, the other recovers the loot: 502 doses of heroin, 1.162 of cocaine and 16 grams of still pure drugs, ready to be cut. In the backpack, also a precision scale, packaging material and 2.300 euros in cash.
Emilia Barretta, 56, ends up in handcuffs, now locked up in the prison of Naples. She will have to answer for possession and dealing of narcotics.
Another drug warehouse dismantled in the heart of the historic center. Now the carabinieri continue their investigations to trace the woman's relationships, that is, on behalf of those who were dealing drugs or were simply acting as a warehouse for the pushers in the area.
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The article talks about a complex and difficult situation in Naples, and makes me think about how important security is in the neighborhoods. It is sad to see how drugs continue to circulate despite the efforts of the authorities.