At the first light of dawn, the carabinieri carried out 24 pre-trial detention orders - 12 in prison - against as many under investigation in the provinces of Brescia, Milan and Mantua.
Numerous indications of guilt related to various crimes including violent extortion aimed at recovering debts contracted for the purchase of drugs, theft inside schools and tobacconists.
A member of the Orrù family, of Sardinian origin but in Brescia for years and already at the center of numerous investigations for drug trafficking, is also involved in the “Monterosa 2020” operation.
Franco Righetti Orrù, 23, according to the precautionary custody order signed by the investigating judge Matteo Grimaldi "accompanied the main activity of cocaine dealing crimes with recovery purposes such as extortion, robbery, injuries, damages in order to collect the debt owed to the subjects most reluctant to pay ".
According to the prosecutors, the 23-year-old "has elected crime to a real way of life." In 2011, his 23-year-old parents were convicted of criminal association aimed at drug trafficking, illegal carrying of weapons, receiving stolen goods and extortion .
According to the investigators, they were at the top of a group that trafficked cocaine from Brescia to Cagliari. Franco Righetti Orrù bears the name of his uncle, killed at the age of 37 during an assault on a security carrier in
Paitone, in the province of Brescia.
The investigations had begun following some episodes of robbery, extortion and arson of cars that took place between the summer of 2019 and the first months of 2020 in the territories of Bedizzole and Calcinato, in the province of Brescia.
(Unioneonline / ss)
