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  • 19 luglio 2010. Palermo. Domenico Di Fatta, preside dell’Istituto Comprensivo Giovanni Falcone del quartiere ZEN di Palermo. contrasta la criminalità e punta a educare e istruire i giovani senza compromessi e ammiccamenti.<br />
<br />
©2010 Gianni Cipriano<br />
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  • 19 luglio 2010. Palermo. Domenico Di Fatta, preside dell’Istituto Comprensivo Giovanni Falcone del quartiere ZEN di Palermo. contrasta la criminalità e punta a educare e istruire i giovani senza compromessi e ammiccamenti.<br />
<br />
©2010 Gianni Cipriano<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +39 328 567 7923<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
    CIPG_20100719_ATRE-ECONOMIE_Zen2_MG_...jpg
  • 19 luglio 2010. Palermo. Domenico Di Fatta, preside dell’Istituto Comprensivo Giovanni Falcone del quartiere ZEN di Palermo. contrasta la criminalità e punta a educare e istruire i giovani senza compromessi e ammiccamenti.<br />
<br />
©2010 Gianni Cipriano<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +39 328 567 7923<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
    CIPG_20100719_ATRE-ECONOMIE_Zen2_MG_...jpg
  • 19 luglio 2010. Palermo. Domenico Di Fatta, preside dell’Istituto Comprensivo Giovanni Falcone del quartiere ZEN di Palermo. contrasta la criminalità e punta a educare e istruire i giovani senza compromessi e ammiccamenti.<br />
<br />
©2010 Gianni Cipriano<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +39 328 567 7923<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
    CIPG_20100719_ATRE-ECONOMIE_Zen2_MG_...jpg
  • 19 luglio 2010. Palermo. Domenico Di Fatta, preside dell’Istituto Comprensivo Giovanni Falcone del quartiere ZEN di Palermo. contrasta la criminalità e punta a educare e istruire i giovani senza compromessi e ammiccamenti.<br />
<br />
©2010 Gianni Cipriano<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +39 328 567 7923<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
    CIPG_20100719_ATRE-ECONOMIE_Zen2_MG_...jpg
  • 19 luglio 2010. Palermo. Domenico Di Fatta, preside dell’Istituto Comprensivo Giovanni Falcone del quartiere ZEN di Palermo. contrasta la criminalità e punta a educare e istruire i giovani senza compromessi e ammiccamenti.<br />
<br />
©2010 Gianni Cipriano<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +39 328 567 7923<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
    CIPG_20100719_ATRE-ECONOMIE_Zen2_MG_...jpg
  • 19 luglio 2010. Palermo. Domenico Di Fatta, preside dell’Istituto Comprensivo Giovanni Falcone del quartiere ZEN di Palermo. contrasta la criminalità e punta a educare e istruire i giovani senza compromessi e ammiccamenti.<br />
<br />
©2010 Gianni Cipriano<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +39 328 567 7923<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
    CIPG_20100719_ATRE-ECONOMIE_Zen2_MG_...jpg
  • 19 luglio 2010. Palermo. Domenico Di Fatta, preside dell’Istituto Comprensivo Giovanni Falcone del quartiere ZEN di Palermo. contrasta la criminalità e punta a educare e istruire i giovani senza compromessi e ammiccamenti.<br />
<br />
©2010 Gianni Cipriano<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +39 328 567 7923<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
    CIPG_20100719_ATRE-ECONOMIE_Zen2_MG_...jpg
  • 19 luglio 2010. Palermo. Domenico Di Fatta, preside dell’Istituto Comprensivo Giovanni Falcone del quartiere ZEN di Palermo. contrasta la criminalità e punta a educare e istruire i giovani senza compromessi e ammiccamenti.<br />
<br />
©2010 Gianni Cipriano<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +39 328 567 7923<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
    CIPG_20100719_ATRE-ECONOMIE_Zen2_MG_...jpg
  • 19 luglio 2010. Palermo. Domenico Di Fatta, preside dell’Istituto Comprensivo Giovanni Falcone del quartiere ZEN di Palermo. contrasta la criminalità e punta a educare e istruire i giovani senza compromessi e ammiccamenti.<br />
<br />
©2010 Gianni Cipriano<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +39 328 567 7923<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
    CIPG_20100719_ATRE-ECONOMIE_Zen2_MG_...jpg
  • 19 luglio 2010. Palermo. Domenico Di Fatta, preside dell’Istituto Comprensivo Giovanni Falcone del quartiere ZEN di Palermo. contrasta la criminalità e punta a educare e istruire i giovani senza compromessi e ammiccamenti.<br />
<br />
©2010 Gianni Cipriano<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +39 328 567 7923<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
    CIPG_20100719_ATRE-ECONOMIE_Zen2_MG_...jpg
  • 19 luglio 2010. Palermo. Domenico Di Fatta, preside dell’Istituto Comprensivo Giovanni Falcone del quartiere ZEN di Palermo. contrasta la criminalità e punta a educare e istruire i giovani senza compromessi e ammiccamenti.<br />
<br />
©2010 Gianni Cipriano<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +39 328 567 7923<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
    CIPG_20100719_ATRE-ECONOMIE_Zen2_MG_...jpg
  • 19 luglio 2010. Palermo. Domenico Di Fatta, preside dell’Istituto Comprensivo Giovanni Falcone del quartiere ZEN di Palermo. contrasta la criminalità e punta a educare e istruire i giovani senza compromessi e ammiccamenti.<br />
<br />
©2010 Gianni Cipriano<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +39 328 567 7923<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
    CIPG_20100719_ATRE-ECONOMIE_Zen2_MG_...jpg
  • 19 luglio 2010. Palermo. Domenico Di Fatta, preside dell’Istituto Comprensivo Giovanni Falcone del quartiere ZEN di Palermo. contrasta la criminalità e punta a educare e istruire i giovani senza compromessi e ammiccamenti.<br />
<br />
©2010 Gianni Cipriano<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +39 328 567 7923<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
    CIPG_20100719_ATRE-ECONOMIE_Zen2_MG_...jpg
  • 19 luglio 2010. Palermo. Domenico Di Fatta, preside dell’Istituto Comprensivo Giovanni Falcone del quartiere ZEN di Palermo. contrasta la criminalità e punta a educare e istruire i giovani senza compromessi e ammiccamenti.<br />
<br />
©2010 Gianni Cipriano<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +39 328 567 7923<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
    CIPG_20100719_ATRE-ECONOMIE_Zen2_MG_...jpg
  • 19 luglio 2010. Palermo. Domenico Di Fatta, preside dell’Istituto Comprensivo Giovanni Falcone del quartiere ZEN di Palermo. contrasta la criminalità e punta a educare e istruire i giovani senza compromessi e ammiccamenti.<br />
<br />
©2010 Gianni Cipriano<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +39 328 567 7923<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
    CIPG_20100719_ATRE-ECONOMIE_Zen2_MG_...jpg
  • 19 luglio 2010. Palermo. Domenico Di Fatta, preside dell’Istituto Comprensivo Giovanni Falcone del quartiere ZEN di Palermo. contrasta la criminalità e punta a educare e istruire i giovani senza compromessi e ammiccamenti.<br />
<br />
©2010 Gianni Cipriano<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +39 328 567 7923<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
    CIPG_20100719_ATRE-ECONOMIE_Zen2_MG_...jpg
  • 19 luglio 2010. Palermo. Domenico Di Fatta, preside dell’Istituto Comprensivo Giovanni Falcone del quartiere ZEN di Palermo. contrasta la criminalità e punta a educare e istruire i giovani senza compromessi e ammiccamenti.<br />
<br />
©2010 Gianni Cipriano<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +39 328 567 7923<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
    CIPG_20100719_ATRE-ECONOMIE_Zen2_MG_...jpg
  • MILAN, ITALY - 12 December 2013: Marcello Dell'Utri (73), former senator and longtime associate of former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, photoghraphed in his studio in Milan, Italy, on December 12th 2013.
    CIPG_20131212_NYT_MDU__M3_3547.jpg
  • MILAN, ITALY - 12 December 2013: Marcello Dell'Utri (73), former senator and longtime associate of former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, reads a 1540 edition of Niccolo Macchiavelli's "The Prince" in his studio in Milan, Italy, on December 12th 2013.
    CIPG_20131212_NYT_MDU__M3_3505.jpg
  • Marcello Dell'Utri (75), a convicted mafia criminal and a former Italian politician senior advisor to Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, is photographed here in his studio in Milan, Italy. Dell'Utri has been found guilty of tax fraud, false accounting, and complicity in conspiracy with the Sicilian Mafia. In 1980 he was called by Berlusconi and worked for Publitalia '80, the advertising sales wing of Fininvest's television division, first as a manager and later as the company's chairman and chief executive. In 1994 he was one of the founders of Forza Italia, together with Silvio Berlusconi.
    CIPG_20131212_NYT_MDU__M3_3545.jpg
  • MILAN, ITALY - 12 December 2013: Marcello Dell'Utri (73), former senator and longtime associate of former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, photoghraphed in his studio in Milan, Italy, on December 12th 2013.
    CIPG_20131212_NYT_MDU__M3_3557.jpg
  • MILAN, ITALY - 12 December 2013: Marcello Dell'Utri (73), former senator and longtime associate of former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, photoghraphed in his studio in Milan, Italy, on December 12th 2013.
    CIPG_20131212_NYT_MDU__M3_3545.jpg
  • MILAN, ITALY - 12 December 2013: Marcello Dell'Utri (73), former senator and longtime associate of former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, photoghraphed in his studio with a 1540 edition of Niccolo Macchiavelli's "The Prince", in Milan, Italy, on December 12th 2013.
    CIPG_20131212_NYT_MDU__M3_3516.jpg
  • MILAN, ITALY - 12 December 2013: Marcello Dell'Utri (73), former senator and longtime associate of former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, photoghraphed in his studio with a 1540 edition of Niccolo Macchiavelli's "The Prince", in Milan, Italy, on December 12th 2013.
    CIPG_20131212_NYT_MDU__M3_3497.jpg
  • MILAN, ITALY - 12 December 2013: Marcello Dell'Utri (73), former senator and longtime associate of former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, photoghraphed in his studio with a 1540 edition of Niccolo Macchiavelli's "The Prince", in Milan, Italy, on December 12th 2013.
    CIPG_20131212_NYT_MDU__M3_3488.jpg
  • MILAN, ITALY - 12 December 2013: Marcello Dell'Utri (73), former senator and longtime associate of former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, photoghraphed in his studio with a 1540 edition of Niccolo Macchiavelli's "The Prince", in Milan, Italy, on December 12th 2013.
    CIPG_20131212_NYT_MDU__M3_3484.jpg
  • MILAN, ITALY - 12 December 2013: Marcello Dell'Utri (73), former senator and longtime associate of former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, photoghraphed in his studio in Milan, Italy, on December 12th 2013.
    CIPG_20131212_NYT_MDU__M3_3481.jpg
  • MILAN, ITALY - 12 December 2013: Antique book are here in the library of Marcello Dell'Utri (73), former senator and longtime associate of former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, in his studio in Milan, Italy, on December 12th 2013.
    CIPG_20131212_NYT_MDU__M3_3450.jpg
  • MILAN, ITALY - 12 December 2013: Marcello Dell'Utri (73), former senator and longtime associate of former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, photoghraphed in his studio in Milan, Italy, on December 12th 2013.
    CIPG_20131212_NYT_MDU__M3_3431.jpg
  • MILAN, ITALY - 12 December 2013: Marcello Dell'Utri (73), former senator and longtime associate of former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, reads an edition of "De Amicitia" by Marcus Tulio Cicero in his studio in Milan, Italy, on December 12th 2013.
    CIPG_20131212_NYT_MDU__M3_3389.jpg
  • MILAN, ITALY - 12 December 2013: Marcello Dell'Utri (73), former senator and longtime associate of former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, reads an edition of "De Amicitia" by Marcus Tulio Cicero in his studio in Milan, Italy, on December 12th 2013.
    CIPG_20131212_NYT_MDU__M3_3374.jpg
  • MILAN, ITALY - 12 December 2013: Marcello Dell'Utri (73), former senator and longtime associate of former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, speaks on the phone in his studio in Milan, Italy, on December 12th 2013.
    CIPG_20131212_NYT_MDU__M3_3355.jpg
  • MILAN, ITALY - 12 December 2013: Marcello Dell'Utri (73), former senator and longtime associate of former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, speaks on the phone in his studio in Milan, Italy, on December 12th 2013.
    CIPG_20131212_NYT_MDU__M3_3348.jpg
  • MILAN, ITALY - 12 December 2013: Marcello Dell'Utri (73), former senator and longtime associate of former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, speaks on the phone in his studio in Milan, Italy, on December 12th 2013.
    CIPG_20131212_NYT_MDU__M3_3344.jpg
  • MILAN, ITALY - 12 December 2013: Marcello Dell'Utri (73), former senator and longtime associate of former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, picks an edition of "De Amicitia" by Marcus Tulio Cicero in his studio in Milan, Italy, on December 12th 2013.
    CIPG_20131212_NYT_MDU__M3_3340.jpg
  • MILAN, ITALY - 12 December 2013: Marcello Dell'Utri (73), former senator and longtime associate of former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, picks an edition of "De Amicitia" by Marcus Tulio Cicero in his studio in Milan, Italy, on December 12th 2013.
    CIPG_20131212_NYT_MDU__M3_3339.jpg
  • MILAN, ITALY - 12 December 2013: Marcello Dell'Utri (73), former senator and longtime associate of former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, picks an edition of "De Amicitia" by Marcus Tulio Cicero in his studio in Milan, Italy, on December 12th 2013.
    CIPG_20131212_NYT_MDU__M3_3336.jpg
  • MILAN, ITALY - 12 December 2013: Antique book are here in the library of Marcello Dell'Utri (73), former senator and longtime associate of former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, in his studio in Milan, Italy, on December 12th 2013.
    CIPG_20131212_NYT_MDU__M3_3330.jpg
  • MILAN, ITALY - 12 December 2013: Marcello Dell'Utri (73), former senator and longtime associate of former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, photoghraphed in his studio with a 1540 edition of Niccolo Macchiavelli's "The Prince", in Milan, Italy, on December 12th 2013.
    CIPG_20131212_NYT_MDU__M3_3523.jpg
  • TRAPANI, ITALY - 7 JUNE 2016: Cargo ship Just Noran, seized by the Guardia di Finanza (Financial Police) in June 2014 as it was carrying 28 tons of hashish from Morocco to Libya, is docked here in the harbor in Trapani, Italy, on June 7th 2016.<br />
<br />
Between January 2014 e December 2015 more than 120 tons of hashish, carried on fishing boats or cargo ships from Morocco to Libya, were seized in the Strait of Sicily by Italy’s Guardia di Finanza (Financial Police) thanks to an international police investigation named “Operazione Libeccio”, carried out by the GICO (Gruppo Investigativo Criminalità Organizzata, Organised Crime Investigation Group), a unit of the tax police of Palermo under the supervision of the DDA (Direzione Distrettuale Antimafia) of Palermo.<br />
<br />
“What is happening in Libya is same historical occurrence that happened years ago in Afghanistan. Such as the Talibans who financed their terroristic activities with heroin trafficking for the purchase of weapons, the Caliphate is proposing the same terroristic strategy by purchasing and commercialising hashish in order to purchase weapons used in their war” Sergio Barbera, Deputy General Prosecutor of Palermo, said.
    CIPG_20160607_NYT-Smuggling_5M3_1824.jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 7 JUNE 2016: Sergio Barbera, Deputy General Prosecutor of Palermo, poses for a portrait in his office in the courthouse of Palermo, Italy, on June 7th 2016.<br />
<br />
Between January 2014 e December 2015 more than 120 tons of hashish, carried on fishing boats or cargo ships from Morocco to Libya, were seized in the Strait of Sicily by Italy’s Guardia di Finanza (Financial Police) thanks to an international police investigation named “Operazione Libeccio”, carried out by the GICO (Gruppo Investigativo Criminalità Organizzata, Organised Crime Investigation Group), a unit of the tax police of Palermo under the supervision of the DDA (Direzione Distrettuale Antimafia) of Palermo.<br />
<br />
“What is happening in Libya is same historical occurrence that happened years ago in Afghanistan. Such as the Talibans who financed their terroristic activities with heroin trafficking for the purchase of weapons, the Caliphate is proposing the same terroristic strategy by purchasing and commercialising hashish in order to purchase weapons used in their war” Sergio Barbera, Deputy General Prosecutor of Palermo, said.
    CIPG_20160607_NYT-Smuggling_5M3_1235.jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 7 JUNE 2016: Sergio Barbera, Deputy General Prosecutor of Palermo, is interviewed here in his office in the courthouse of Palermo, Italy, on June 7th 2016.<br />
<br />
Between January 2014 e December 2015 more than 120 tons of hashish, carried on fishing boats or cargo ships from Morocco to Libya, were seized in the Strait of Sicily by Italy’s Guardia di Finanza (Financial Police) thanks to an international police investigation named “Operazione Libeccio”, carried out by the GICO (Gruppo Investigativo Criminalità Organizzata, Organised Crime Investigation Group), a unit of the tax police of Palermo under the supervision of the DDA (Direzione Distrettuale Antimafia) of Palermo.<br />
<br />
“What is happening in Libya is same historical occurrence that happened years ago in Afghanistan. Such as the Talibans who financed their terroristic activities with heroin trafficking for the purchase of weapons, the Caliphate is proposing the same terroristic strategy by purchasing and commercialising hashish in order to purchase weapons used in their war” Sergio Barbera, Deputy General Prosecutor of Palermo, said.
    CIPG_20160607_NYT-Smuggling_5M3_1220.jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 6 JUNE 2016: (L-R) Cargo ships Munzur and Meryem, seized respectively in December 2015 with 13 tons of hashish and in June 2015 with 20 tons of hashish within the "Operazione Libeccio", are docked here in the harbor of Palermo, Italy, on June 6th 2016.<br />
<br />
Between January 2014 e December 2015 more than 120 tons of hashish, carried on fishing boats or cargo ships from Morocco to Libya, were seized in the Strait of Sicily by Italy’s Guardia di Finanza (Financial Police) thanks to an international police investigation named “Operazione Libeccio”, carried out by the GICO (Gruppo Investigativo Criminalità Organizzata, Organised Crime Investigation Group), a unit of the tax police of Palermo under the supervision of the DDA (Direzione Distrettuale Antimafia) of Palermo.<br />
<br />
“What is happening in Libya is same historical occurrence that happened years ago in Afghanistan. Such as the Talibans who financed their terroristic activities with heroin trafficking for the purchase of weapons, the Caliphate is proposing the same terroristic strategy by purchasing and commercialising hashish in order to purchase weapons used in their war” Sergio Barbera, Deputy General Prosecutor of Palermo, said.
    CIPG_20160606_NYT-Smuggling_5M3_1165.jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 6 JUNE 2016: (L-R) Cargo ship Munzur, seized in December 2015 with 13 tons of hashishith 5 tons of hashish within the "Operazione Libeccio", is docked here in the harbor of Palermo, Italy, on June 6th 2016.<br />
<br />
Between January 2014 e December 2015 more than 120 tons of hashish, carried on fishing boats or cargo ships from Morocco to Libya, were seized in the Strait of Sicily by Italy’s Guardia di Finanza (Financial Police) thanks to an international police investigation named “Operazione Libeccio”, carried out by the GICO (Gruppo Investigativo Criminalità Organizzata, Organised Crime Investigation Group), a unit of the tax police of Palermo under the supervision of the DDA (Direzione Distrettuale Antimafia) of Palermo.<br />
<br />
“What is happening in Libya is same historical occurrence that happened years ago in Afghanistan. Such as the Talibans who financed their terroristic activities with heroin trafficking for the purchase of weapons, the Caliphate is proposing the same terroristic strategy by purchasing and commercialising hashish in order to purchase weapons used in their war” Sergio Barbera, Deputy General Prosecutor of Palermo, said.
    CIPG_20160606_NYT-Smuggling_5M3_1027.jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 6 JUNE 2016: (L-R) Fishing boat Ozu 2 and cargo ships Munzur and Meryem, seized respectively in July 2015 with 5 tons of hashish, in December 2015 with 13 tons of hashish and in  June 2015 with 12 tons of hashish within the "Operazione Libeccio", are docked here in the harbor of Palermo, Italy, on June 6th 2016.<br />
<br />
Between January 2014 e December 2015 more than 120 tons of hashish, carried on fishing boats or cargo ships from Morocco to Libya, were seized in the Strait of Sicily by Italy’s Guardia di Finanza (Financial Police) thanks to an international police investigation named “Operazione Libeccio”, carried out by the GICO (Gruppo Investigativo Criminalità Organizzata, Organised Crime Investigation Group), a unit of the tax police of Palermo under the supervision of the DDA (Direzione Distrettuale Antimafia) of Palermo.<br />
<br />
“What is happening in Libya is same historical occurrence that happened years ago in Afghanistan. Such as the Talibans who financed their terroristic activities with heroin trafficking for the purchase of weapons, the Caliphate is proposing the same terroristic strategy by purchasing and commercialising hashish in order to purchase weapons used in their war” Sergio Barbera, Deputy General Prosecutor of Palermo, said.
    CIPG_20160606_NYT-Smuggling_5M3_1018.jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 6 JUNE 2016: (R-L) Cargo ships Munzur and Meryem, seized respectively in December 2015 with 13 tons of hashish and in June 2015 with 20 tons of hashish within the "Operazione Libeccio", are docked here in the harbor of Palermo, Italy, on June 6th 2016.<br />
<br />
Between January 2014 e December 2015 more than 120 tons of hashish, carried on fishing boats or cargo ships from Morocco to Libya, were seized in the Strait of Sicily by Italy’s Guardia di Finanza (Financial Police) thanks to an international police investigation named “Operazione Libeccio”, carried out by the GICO (Gruppo Investigativo Criminalità Organizzata, Organised Crime Investigation Group), a unit of the tax police of Palermo under the supervision of the DDA (Direzione Distrettuale Antimafia) of Palermo.<br />
<br />
“What is happening in Libya is same historical occurrence that happened years ago in Afghanistan. Such as the Talibans who financed their terroristic activities with heroin trafficking for the purchase of weapons, the Caliphate is proposing the same terroristic strategy by purchasing and commercialising hashish in order to purchase weapons used in their war” Sergio Barbera, Deputy General Prosecutor of Palermo, said.
    CIPG_20160606_NYT-Smuggling_5M3_0910.jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 6 JUNE 2016: Lieutenant Colonel Giuseppe Campobasso, Commander of the GOA unit (Gruppo Operativo Antidroga) part of the GICO (Gruppo Investigativo Criminalità Organizzata), who coordinated the seizures of vessels carrying hashish from Morocco to Libya, poses for a portrait at the Guardia di Finanzia (Financial Police) headquarters in Palermo, Italy, on June 6th 2016.<br />
<br />
Between January 2014 e December 2015 more than 120 tons of hashish, carried on fishing boats or cargo ships from Morocco to Libya, were seized in the Strait of Sicily by Italy’s Guardia di Finanza (Financial Police) thanks to an international police investigation named “Operazione Libeccio”, carried out by the GICO (Gruppo Investigativo Criminalità Organizzata, Organised Crime Investigation Group), a unit of the tax police of Palermo under the supervision of the DDA (Direzione Distrettuale Antimafia) of Palermo.<br />
<br />
“What is happening in Libya is same historical occurrence that happened years ago in Afghanistan. Such as the Talibans who financed their terroristic activities with heroin trafficking for the purchase of weapons, the Caliphate is proposing the same terroristic strategy by purchasing and commercialising hashish in order to purchase weapons used in their war” Sergio Barbera, Deputy General Prosecutor of Palermo, said.
    CIPG_20160606_NYT-Smuggling_5M3_0649.jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 6 JUNE 2016: Colonel Francesco Mazzotta, Commander of the Tax Police Unit of Palermo that coordinated the seizures of vessels carrying hashish from Morocco to Libya, poses for a portrait in the Guardia di Finanza (Financial Police) headquarters in Palermo, Italy, on June 6th 2016.<br />
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Between January 2014 e December 2015 more than 120 tons of hashish, carried on fishing boats or cargo ships from Morocco to Libya, were seized in the Strait of Sicily by Italy’s Guardia di Finanza (Financial Police) thanks to an international police investigation named “Operazione Libeccio”, carried out by the GICO (Gruppo Investigativo Criminalità Organizzata, Organised Crime Investigation Group), a unit of the tax police of Palermo under the supervision of the DDA (Direzione Distrettuale Antimafia) of Palermo.<br />
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“What is happening in Libya is same historical occurrence that happened years ago in Afghanistan. Such as the Talibans who financed their terroristic activities with heroin trafficking for the purchase of weapons, the Caliphate is proposing the same terroristic strategy by purchasing and commercialising hashish in order to purchase weapons used in their war” Sergio Barbera, Deputy General Prosecutor of Palermo, said.
    CIPG_20160606_NYT-Smuggling_5M3_0535.jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 6 JUNE 2016: Colonel Francesco Mazzotta, Commander of the Tax Police Unit of Palermo that coordinated the seizures of vessels carrying hashish from Morocco to Libya, poses for a portrait in the Guardia di Finanza (Financial Police) headquarters in Palermo, Italy, on June 6th 2016.<br />
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Between January 2014 e December 2015 more than 120 tons of hashish, carried on fishing boats or cargo ships from Morocco to Libya, were seized in the Strait of Sicily by Italy’s Guardia di Finanza (Financial Police) thanks to an international police investigation named “Operazione Libeccio”, carried out by the GICO (Gruppo Investigativo Criminalità Organizzata, Organised Crime Investigation Group), a unit of the tax police of Palermo under the supervision of the DDA (Direzione Distrettuale Antimafia) of Palermo.<br />
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“What is happening in Libya is same historical occurrence that happened years ago in Afghanistan. Such as the Talibans who financed their terroristic activities with heroin trafficking for the purchase of weapons, the Caliphate is proposing the same terroristic strategy by purchasing and commercialising hashish in order to purchase weapons used in their war” Sergio Barbera, Deputy General Prosecutor of Palermo, said.
    CIPG_20160606_NYT-Smuggling_5M3_0528.jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 6 JUNE 2016: Six blocks of approximately 250 grams (8.81 ounces) of hashish each, seized in December 2015 on the cargo ship Munzur carrying 13 tons of hashish divided into 500 jute suitcases, iare shown here in a conference room of the Guardia di Finanza (Financial Police) headquarters in Palermo, Italy, on June 6th 2016.<br />
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Between January 2014 e December 2015 more than 120 tons of hashish, carried on fishing boats or cargo ships from Morocco to Libya, were seized in the Strait of Sicily by Italy’s Guardia di Finanza (Financial Police) thanks to an international police investigation named “Operazione Libeccio”, carried out by the GICO (Gruppo Investigativo Criminalità Organizzata, Organised Crime Investigation Group), a unit of the tax police of Palermo under the supervision of the DDA (Direzione Distrettuale Antimafia) of Palermo.<br />
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“What is happening in Libya is same historical occurrence that happened years ago in Afghanistan. Such as the Talibans who financed their terroristic activities with heroin trafficking for the purchase of weapons, the Caliphate is proposing the same terroristic strategy by purchasing and commercialising hashish in order to purchase weapons used in their war” Sergio Barbera, Deputy General Prosecutor of Palermo, said.
    CIPG_20160606_NYT-Smuggling_5M3_0440.jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 6 JUNE 2016: A block of approximately 250 grams (8.81 ounces) of hashish, seized in December 2015 on the cargo ship Munzur carrying 13 tons of hashish divided into 500 jute suitcases ,is shown here in a conference room of the Guardia di Finanza (Financial Police) headquarters in Palermo, Italy, on June 6th 2016.<br />
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Between January 2014 e December 2015 more than 120 tons of hashish, carried on fishing boats or cargo ships from Morocco to Libya, were seized in the Strait of Sicily by Italy’s Guardia di Finanza (Financial Police) thanks to an international police investigation named “Operazione Libeccio”, carried out by the GICO (Gruppo Investigativo Criminalità Organizzata, Organised Crime Investigation Group), a unit of the tax police of Palermo under the supervision of the DDA (Direzione Distrettuale Antimafia) of Palermo.<br />
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“What is happening in Libya is same historical occurrence that happened years ago in Afghanistan. Such as the Talibans who financed their terroristic activities with heroin trafficking for the purchase of weapons, the Caliphate is proposing the same terroristic strategy by purchasing and commercialising hashish in order to purchase weapons used in their war” Sergio Barbera, Deputy General Prosecutor of Palermo, said. suitcases ,is shown here in a conference room of the Guardia di Finanza (Financial Police) headquarters in Palermo, Italy, on June 6th 2016.<br />
said.
    CIPG_20160606_NYT-Smuggling_5M3_0360.jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 6 JUNE 2016: (L-R) Reporter Rukmini Callimachi, Lieutenant Colonel Giuseppe Campobasso, Commander of the GOA unit (Gruppo Operativo Antidroga) and reporter Lorenzo Tondo are here in the conference room of the Guardia di FInanza (Financial Police) headquarters as they go over details of the seizures of vessels carrying hashish from Morocco to Libya, in Palermo, Italy, on June 6th 2016.<br />
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Between January 2014 e December 2015 more than 120 tons of hashish, carried on fishing boats or cargo ships from Morocco to Libya, were seized in the Strait of Sicily by Italy’s Guardia di Finanza (Financial Police) thanks to an international police investigation named “Operazione Libeccio”, carried out by the GICO (Gruppo Investigativo Criminalità Organizzata, Organised Crime Investigation Group), a unit of the tax police of Palermo under the supervision of the DDA (Direzione Distrettuale Antimafia) of Palermo.<br />
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“What is happening in Libya is same historical occurrence that happened years ago in Afghanistan. Such as the Talibans who financed their terroristic activities with heroin trafficking for the purchase of weapons, the Caliphate is proposing the same terroristic strategy by purchasing and commercialising hashish in order to purchase weapons used in their war” Sergio Barbera, Deputy General Prosecutor of Palermo, said.
    CIPG_20160606_NYT-Smuggling_5M3_0591.jpg
  • TRAPANI, ITALY - 7 JUNE 2016: Cargo ship Aberdeen, seized by the Guardia di Finanza (Financial Police) in June 2014 as it was carrying 42 tons of hashish from Morocco to Libya, is docked here in the harbor in Trapani, Italy, on June 7th 2016.<br />
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Between January 2014 e December 2015 more than 120 tons of hashish, carried on fishing boats or cargo ships from Morocco to Libya, were seized in the Strait of Sicily by Italy’s Guardia di Finanza (Financial Police) thanks to an international police investigation named “Operazione Libeccio”, carried out by the GICO (Gruppo Investigativo Criminalità Organizzata, Organised Crime Investigation Group), a unit of the tax police of Palermo under the supervision of the DDA (Direzione Distrettuale Antimafia) of Palermo.<br />
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“What is happening in Libya is same historical occurrence that happened years ago in Afghanistan. Such as the Talibans who financed their terroristic activities with heroin trafficking for the purchase of weapons, the Caliphate is proposing the same terroristic strategy by purchasing and commercialising hashish in order to purchase weapons used in their war” Sergio Barbera, Deputy General Prosecutor of Palermo, said.
    CIPG_20160607_NYT-Smuggling_5M3_1904.jpg
  • TRAPANI, ITALY - 7 JUNE 2016: A marshal of the Guardia di Finanza (Financial Police) walks towards the cargo ship Aberdeen, seized in June 2014 as it was carrying 42 tons of hashish from Morocco to Libya, is docked here in the harbor in Trapani, Italy, on June 7th 2016.<br />
<br />
Between January 2014 e December 2015 more than 120 tons of hashish, carried on fishing boats or cargo ships from Morocco to Libya, were seized in the Strait of Sicily by Italy’s Guardia di Finanza (Financial Police) thanks to an international police investigation named “Operazione Libeccio”, carried out by the GICO (Gruppo Investigativo Criminalità Organizzata, Organised Crime Investigation Group), a unit of the tax police of Palermo under the supervision of the DDA (Direzione Distrettuale Antimafia) of Palermo.<br />
<br />
“What is happening in Libya is same historical occurrence that happened years ago in Afghanistan. Such as the Talibans who financed their terroristic activities with heroin trafficking for the purchase of weapons, the Caliphate is proposing the same terroristic strategy by purchasing and commercialising hashish in order to purchase weapons used in their war” Sergio Barbera, Deputy General Prosecutor of Palermo, said.
    CIPG_20160607_NYT-Smuggling_5M3_1881.jpg
  • TRAPANI, ITALY - 7 JUNE 2016: A marshal of the Guardia di Finanza (Financial Police) points out the cargo ship Aberdeen, seized in June 2014 as it was carrying 42 tons of hashish from Morocco to Libya, is docked here in the harbor in Trapani, Italy, on June 7th 2016.<br />
<br />
Between January 2014 e December 2015 more than 120 tons of hashish, carried on fishing boats or cargo ships from Morocco to Libya, were seized in the Strait of Sicily by Italy’s Guardia di Finanza (Financial Police) thanks to an international police investigation named “Operazione Libeccio”, carried out by the GICO (Gruppo Investigativo Criminalità Organizzata, Organised Crime Investigation Group), a unit of the tax police of Palermo under the supervision of the DDA (Direzione Distrettuale Antimafia) of Palermo.<br />
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“What is happening in Libya is same historical occurrence that happened years ago in Afghanistan. Such as the Talibans who financed their terroristic activities with heroin trafficking for the purchase of weapons, the Caliphate is proposing the same terroristic strategy by purchasing and commercialising hashish in order to purchase weapons used in their war” Sergio Barbera, Deputy General Prosecutor of Palermo, said.
    CIPG_20160607_NYT-Smuggling_5M3_1866.jpg
  • TRAPANI, ITALY - 7 JUNE 2016: Cargo ship Aberdeen, seized by the Guardia di Finanza (Financial Police) in June 2014 as it was carrying 42 tons of hashish from Morocco to Libya, is docked here in the harbor in Trapani, Italy, on June 7th 2016.<br />
<br />
Between January 2014 e December 2015 more than 120 tons of hashish, carried on fishing boats or cargo ships from Morocco to Libya, were seized in the Strait of Sicily by Italy’s Guardia di Finanza (Financial Police) thanks to an international police investigation named “Operazione Libeccio”, carried out by the GICO (Gruppo Investigativo Criminalità Organizzata, Organised Crime Investigation Group), a unit of the tax police of Palermo under the supervision of the DDA (Direzione Distrettuale Antimafia) of Palermo.<br />
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“What is happening in Libya is same historical occurrence that happened years ago in Afghanistan. Such as the Talibans who financed their terroristic activities with heroin trafficking for the purchase of weapons, the Caliphate is proposing the same terroristic strategy by purchasing and commercialising hashish in order to purchase weapons used in their war” Sergio Barbera, Deputy General Prosecutor of Palermo, said.
    CIPG_20160607_NYT-Smuggling_5M3_1851.jpg
  • TRAPANI, ITALY - 7 JUNE 2016: Cargo ship Just Noran, seized by the Guardia di Finanza (Financial Police) in June 2014 as it was carrying 28 tons of hashish from Morocco to Libya, is docked here in the harbor in Trapani, Italy, on June 7th 2016.<br />
<br />
Between January 2014 e December 2015 more than 120 tons of hashish, carried on fishing boats or cargo ships from Morocco to Libya, were seized in the Strait of Sicily by Italy’s Guardia di Finanza (Financial Police) thanks to an international police investigation named “Operazione Libeccio”, carried out by the GICO (Gruppo Investigativo Criminalità Organizzata, Organised Crime Investigation Group), a unit of the tax police of Palermo under the supervision of the DDA (Direzione Distrettuale Antimafia) of Palermo.<br />
<br />
“What is happening in Libya is same historical occurrence that happened years ago in Afghanistan. Such as the Talibans who financed their terroristic activities with heroin trafficking for the purchase of weapons, the Caliphate is proposing the same terroristic strategy by purchasing and commercialising hashish in order to purchase weapons used in their war” Sergio Barbera, Deputy General Prosecutor of Palermo, said.
    CIPG_20160607_NYT-Smuggling_5M3_1834.jpg
  • TRAPANI, ITALY - 7 JUNE 2016: Cargo ship Just Noran, seized by the Guardia di Finanza (Financial Police) in June 2014 as it was carrying 28 tons of hashish from Morocco to Libya, is docked here in the harbor in Trapani, Italy, on June 7th 2016.<br />
<br />
Between January 2014 e December 2015 more than 120 tons of hashish, carried on fishing boats or cargo ships from Morocco to Libya, were seized in the Strait of Sicily by Italy’s Guardia di Finanza (Financial Police) thanks to an international police investigation named “Operazione Libeccio”, carried out by the GICO (Gruppo Investigativo Criminalità Organizzata, Organised Crime Investigation Group), a unit of the tax police of Palermo under the supervision of the DDA (Direzione Distrettuale Antimafia) of Palermo.<br />
<br />
“What is happening in Libya is same historical occurrence that happened years ago in Afghanistan. Such as the Talibans who financed their terroristic activities with heroin trafficking for the purchase of weapons, the Caliphate is proposing the same terroristic strategy by purchasing and commercialising hashish in order to purchase weapons used in their war” Sergio Barbera, Deputy General Prosecutor of Palermo, said.
    CIPG_20160607_NYT-Smuggling_5M3_1814.jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 7 JUNE 2016: A man walks by the courthouse in Palermo, Italy, on June 7th 2016.<br />
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Between January 2014 e December 2015 more than 120 tons of hashish, carried on fishing boats or cargo ships from Morocco to Libya, were seized in the Strait of Sicily by Italy’s Guardia di Finanza (Financial Police) thanks to an international police investigation named “Operazione Libeccio”, carried out by the GICO (Gruppo Investigativo Criminalità Organizzata, Organised Crime Investigation Group), a unit of the tax police of Palermo under the supervision of the DDA (Direzione Distrettuale Antimafia) of Palermo.<br />
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“What is happening in Libya is same historical occurrence that happened years ago in Afghanistan. Such as the Talibans who financed their terroristic activities with heroin trafficking for the purchase of weapons, the Caliphate is proposing the same terroristic strategy by purchasing and commercialising hashish in order to purchase weapons used in their war” Sergio Barbera, Deputy General Prosecutor of Palermo, said.
    CIPG_20160607_NYT-Smuggling_5M3_1733.jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 7 JUNE 2016: Children play soccer by the courthouse in Palermo, Italy, on June 7th 2016.<br />
<br />
Between January 2014 e December 2015 more than 120 tons of hashish, carried on fishing boats or cargo ships from Morocco to Libya, were seized in the Strait of Sicily by Italy’s Guardia di Finanza (Financial Police) thanks to an international police investigation named “Operazione Libeccio”, carried out by the GICO (Gruppo Investigativo Criminalità Organizzata, Organised Crime Investigation Group), a unit of the tax police of Palermo under the supervision of the DDA (Direzione Distrettuale Antimafia) of Palermo.<br />
<br />
“What is happening in Libya is same historical occurrence that happened years ago in Afghanistan. Such as the Talibans who financed their terroristic activities with heroin trafficking for the purchase of weapons, the Caliphate is proposing the same terroristic strategy by purchasing and commercialising hashish in order to purchase weapons used in their war” Sergio Barbera, Deputy General Prosecutor of Palermo, said.
    CIPG_20160607_NYT-Smuggling_5M3_1710.jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 7 JUNE 2016: People walk by the courthouse in Palermo, Italy, on June 7th 2016.<br />
<br />
Between January 2014 e December 2015 more than 120 tons of hashish, carried on fishing boats or cargo ships from Morocco to Libya, were seized in the Strait of Sicily by Italy’s Guardia di Finanza (Financial Police) thanks to an international police investigation named “Operazione Libeccio”, carried out by the GICO (Gruppo Investigativo Criminalità Organizzata, Organised Crime Investigation Group), a unit of the tax police of Palermo under the supervision of the DDA (Direzione Distrettuale Antimafia) of Palermo.<br />
<br />
“What is happening in Libya is same historical occurrence that happened years ago in Afghanistan. Such as the Talibans who financed their terroristic activities with heroin trafficking for the purchase of weapons, the Caliphate is proposing the same terroristic strategy by purchasing and commercialising hashish in order to purchase weapons used in their war” Sergio Barbera, Deputy General Prosecutor of Palermo, said.
    CIPG_20160607_NYT-Smuggling_5M3_1633.jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 7 JUNE 2016: Children play soccer by the courthouse in Palermo, Italy, on June 7th 2016.<br />
<br />
Between January 2014 e December 2015 more than 120 tons of hashish, carried on fishing boats or cargo ships from Morocco to Libya, were seized in the Strait of Sicily by Italy’s Guardia di Finanza (Financial Police) thanks to an international police investigation named “Operazione Libeccio”, carried out by the GICO (Gruppo Investigativo Criminalità Organizzata, Organised Crime Investigation Group), a unit of the tax police of Palermo under the supervision of the DDA (Direzione Distrettuale Antimafia) of Palermo.<br />
<br />
“What is happening in Libya is same historical occurrence that happened years ago in Afghanistan. Such as the Talibans who financed their terroristic activities with heroin trafficking for the purchase of weapons, the Caliphate is proposing the same terroristic strategy by purchasing and commercialising hashish in order to purchase weapons used in their war” Sergio Barbera, Deputy General Prosecutor of Palermo, said.
    CIPG_20160607_NYT-Smuggling_5M3_1584.jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 7 JUNE 2016: Children play soccer by the courthouse in Palermo, Italy, on June 7th 2016.<br />
<br />
Between January 2014 e December 2015 more than 120 tons of hashish, carried on fishing boats or cargo ships from Morocco to Libya, were seized in the Strait of Sicily by Italy’s Guardia di Finanza (Financial Police) thanks to an international police investigation named “Operazione Libeccio”, carried out by the GICO (Gruppo Investigativo Criminalità Organizzata, Organised Crime Investigation Group), a unit of the tax police of Palermo under the supervision of the DDA (Direzione Distrettuale Antimafia) of Palermo.<br />
<br />
“What is happening in Libya is same historical occurrence that happened years ago in Afghanistan. Such as the Talibans who financed their terroristic activities with heroin trafficking for the purchase of weapons, the Caliphate is proposing the same terroristic strategy by purchasing and commercialising hashish in order to purchase weapons used in their war” Sergio Barbera, Deputy General Prosecutor of Palermo, said.
    CIPG_20160607_NYT-Smuggling_5M3_1521.jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 7 JUNE 2016: Piazza della Memoria, a square withing the Palermo courthouse complex, is seen here in Palermo, Italy, on June 7th 2016.<br />
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Between January 2014 e December 2015 more than 120 tons of hashish, carried on fishing boats or cargo ships from Morocco to Libya, were seized in the Strait of Sicily by Italy’s Guardia di Finanza (Financial Police) thanks to an international police investigation named “Operazione Libeccio”, carried out by the GICO (Gruppo Investigativo Criminalità Organizzata, Organised Crime Investigation Group), a unit of the tax police of Palermo under the supervision of the DDA (Direzione Distrettuale Antimafia) of Palermo.<br />
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“What is happening in Libya is same historical occurrence that happened years ago in Afghanistan. Such as the Talibans who financed their terroristic activities with heroin trafficking for the purchase of weapons, the Caliphate is proposing the same terroristic strategy by purchasing and commercialising hashish in order to purchase weapons used in their war” Sergio Barbera, Deputy General Prosecutor of Palermo, said.
    CIPG_20160607_NYT-Smuggling_5M3_1489.jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 7 JUNE 2016: Piazza della Memoria, a square withing the Palermo courthouse complex, is seen here in Palermo, Italy, on June 7th 2016.<br />
<br />
Between January 2014 e December 2015 more than 120 tons of hashish, carried on fishing boats or cargo ships from Morocco to Libya, were seized in the Strait of Sicily by Italy’s Guardia di Finanza (Financial Police) thanks to an international police investigation named “Operazione Libeccio”, carried out by the GICO (Gruppo Investigativo Criminalità Organizzata, Organised Crime Investigation Group), a unit of the tax police of Palermo under the supervision of the DDA (Direzione Distrettuale Antimafia) of Palermo.<br />
<br />
“What is happening in Libya is same historical occurrence that happened years ago in Afghanistan. Such as the Talibans who financed their terroristic activities with heroin trafficking for the purchase of weapons, the Caliphate is proposing the same terroristic strategy by purchasing and commercialising hashish in order to purchase weapons used in their war” Sergio Barbera, Deputy General Prosecutor of Palermo, said.
    CIPG_20160607_NYT-Smuggling_5M3_1470.jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 7 JUNE 2016: Geri Ferrara, Deputy Prosecutor of Palermo in DDA (Direzione Distrettuale Antimafia, or Antimafia Directorate), poses for a portrait here in his office in the courthouse of Palermo, Italy, on June 7th 2016.<br />
<br />
Between January 2014 e December 2015 more than 120 tons of hashish, carried on fishing boats or cargo ships from Morocco to Libya, were seized in the Strait of Sicily by Italy’s Guardia di Finanza (Financial Police) thanks to an international police investigation named “Operazione Libeccio”, carried out by the GICO (Gruppo Investigativo Criminalità Organizzata, Organised Crime Investigation Group), a unit of the tax police of Palermo under the supervision of the DDA (Direzione Distrettuale Antimafia) of Palermo.<br />
<br />
“What is happening in Libya is same historical occurrence that happened years ago in Afghanistan. Such as the Talibans who financed their terroristic activities with heroin trafficking for the purchase of weapons, the Caliphate is proposing the same terroristic strategy by purchasing and commercialising hashish in order to purchase weapons used in their war” Sergio Barbera, Deputy General Prosecutor of Palermo, said.
    CIPG_20160607_NYT-Smuggling_5M3_1435.jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 7 JUNE 2016: Geri Ferrara, Deputy Prosecutor of Palermo in DDA (Direzione Distrettuale Antimafia, or Antimafia Directorate), poses for a portrait here in his office in the courthouse of Palermo, Italy, on June 7th 2016.<br />
<br />
Between January 2014 e December 2015 more than 120 tons of hashish, carried on fishing boats or cargo ships from Morocco to Libya, were seized in the Strait of Sicily by Italy’s Guardia di Finanza (Financial Police) thanks to an international police investigation named “Operazione Libeccio”, carried out by the GICO (Gruppo Investigativo Criminalità Organizzata, Organised Crime Investigation Group), a unit of the tax police of Palermo under the supervision of the DDA (Direzione Distrettuale Antimafia) of Palermo.<br />
<br />
“What is happening in Libya is same historical occurrence that happened years ago in Afghanistan. Such as the Talibans who financed their terroristic activities with heroin trafficking for the purchase of weapons, the Caliphate is proposing the same terroristic strategy by purchasing and commercialising hashish in order to purchase weapons used in their war” Sergio Barbera, Deputy General Prosecutor of Palermo, said.
    CIPG_20160607_NYT-Smuggling_5M3_1411.jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 7 JUNE 2016: Geri Ferrara, Deputy Prosecutor of Palermo in DDA (Direzione Distrettuale Antimafia, or Antimafia Directorate), poses for a portrait here in his office in the courthouse of Palermo, Italy, on June 7th 2016.<br />
<br />
Between January 2014 e December 2015 more than 120 tons of hashish, carried on fishing boats or cargo ships from Morocco to Libya, were seized in the Strait of Sicily by Italy’s Guardia di Finanza (Financial Police) thanks to an international police investigation named “Operazione Libeccio”, carried out by the GICO (Gruppo Investigativo Criminalità Organizzata, Organised Crime Investigation Group), a unit of the tax police of Palermo under the supervision of the DDA (Direzione Distrettuale Antimafia) of Palermo.<br />
<br />
“What is happening in Libya is same historical occurrence that happened years ago in Afghanistan. Such as the Talibans who financed their terroristic activities with heroin trafficking for the purchase of weapons, the Caliphate is proposing the same terroristic strategy by purchasing and commercialising hashish in order to purchase weapons used in their war” Sergio Barbera, Deputy General Prosecutor of Palermo, said.
    CIPG_20160607_NYT-Smuggling_5M3_1382.jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 7 JUNE 2016: Geri Ferrara, Deputy Prosecutor of Palermo in DDA (Direzione Distrettuale Antimafia, or Antimafia Directorate), poses for a portrait here in his office in the courthouse of Palermo, Italy, on June 7th 2016.<br />
<br />
Between January 2014 e December 2015 more than 120 tons of hashish, carried on fishing boats or cargo ships from Morocco to Libya, were seized in the Strait of Sicily by Italy’s Guardia di Finanza (Financial Police) thanks to an international police investigation named “Operazione Libeccio”, carried out by the GICO (Gruppo Investigativo Criminalità Organizzata, Organised Crime Investigation Group), a unit of the tax police of Palermo under the supervision of the DDA (Direzione Distrettuale Antimafia) of Palermo.<br />
<br />
“What is happening in Libya is same historical occurrence that happened years ago in Afghanistan. Such as the Talibans who financed their terroristic activities with heroin trafficking for the purchase of weapons, the Caliphate is proposing the same terroristic strategy by purchasing and commercialising hashish in order to purchase weapons used in their war” Sergio Barbera, Deputy General Prosecutor of Palermo, said.
    CIPG_20160607_NYT-Smuggling_5M3_1380.jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 7 JUNE 2016: Geri Ferrara, Deputy Prosecutor of Palermo in DDA (Direzione Distrettuale Antimafia, or Antimafia Directorate), poses for a portrait here in his office in the courthouse of Palermo, Italy, on June 7th 2016.<br />
<br />
Between January 2014 e December 2015 more than 120 tons of hashish, carried on fishing boats or cargo ships from Morocco to Libya, were seized in the Strait of Sicily by Italy’s Guardia di Finanza (Financial Police) thanks to an international police investigation named “Operazione Libeccio”, carried out by the GICO (Gruppo Investigativo Criminalità Organizzata, Organised Crime Investigation Group), a unit of the tax police of Palermo under the supervision of the DDA (Direzione Distrettuale Antimafia) of Palermo.<br />
<br />
“What is happening in Libya is same historical occurrence that happened years ago in Afghanistan. Such as the Talibans who financed their terroristic activities with heroin trafficking for the purchase of weapons, the Caliphate is proposing the same terroristic strategy by purchasing and commercialising hashish in order to purchase weapons used in their war” Sergio Barbera, Deputy General Prosecutor of Palermo, said.
    CIPG_20160607_NYT-Smuggling_5M3_1344.jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 7 JUNE 2016: Geri Ferrara, Deputy Prosecutor of Palermo in DDA (Direzione Distrettuale Antimafia, or Antimafia Directorate), poses for a portrait here in his office in the courthouse of Palermo, Italy, on June 7th 2016.<br />
<br />
Between January 2014 e December 2015 more than 120 tons of hashish, carried on fishing boats or cargo ships from Morocco to Libya, were seized in the Strait of Sicily by Italy’s Guardia di Finanza (Financial Police) thanks to an international police investigation named “Operazione Libeccio”, carried out by the GICO (Gruppo Investigativo Criminalità Organizzata, Organised Crime Investigation Group), a unit of the tax police of Palermo under the supervision of the DDA (Direzione Distrettuale Antimafia) of Palermo.<br />
<br />
“What is happening in Libya is same historical occurrence that happened years ago in Afghanistan. Such as the Talibans who financed their terroristic activities with heroin trafficking for the purchase of weapons, the Caliphate is proposing the same terroristic strategy by purchasing and commercialising hashish in order to purchase weapons used in their war” Sergio Barbera, Deputy General Prosecutor of Palermo, said.
    CIPG_20160607_NYT-Smuggling_5M3_1343.jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 7 JUNE 2016: Geri Ferrara, Deputy Prosecutor of Palermo in DDA (Direzione Distrettuale Antimafia, or Antimafia Directorate), poses for a portrait here in his office in the courthouse of Palermo, Italy, on June 7th 2016.<br />
<br />
Between January 2014 e December 2015 more than 120 tons of hashish, carried on fishing boats or cargo ships from Morocco to Libya, were seized in the Strait of Sicily by Italy’s Guardia di Finanza (Financial Police) thanks to an international police investigation named “Operazione Libeccio”, carried out by the GICO (Gruppo Investigativo Criminalità Organizzata, Organised Crime Investigation Group), a unit of the tax police of Palermo under the supervision of the DDA (Direzione Distrettuale Antimafia) of Palermo.<br />
<br />
“What is happening in Libya is same historical occurrence that happened years ago in Afghanistan. Such as the Talibans who financed their terroristic activities with heroin trafficking for the purchase of weapons, the Caliphate is proposing the same terroristic strategy by purchasing and commercialising hashish in order to purchase weapons used in their war” Sergio Barbera, Deputy General Prosecutor of Palermo, said.
    CIPG_20160607_NYT-Smuggling_5M3_1300.jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 7 JUNE 2016: Geri Ferrara, Deputy Prosecutor of Palermo in DDA (Direzione Distrettuale Antimafia, or Antimafia Directorate), is interviewed here in his office in the courthouse of Palermo, Italy, on June 7th 2016.<br />
<br />
Between January 2014 e December 2015 more than 120 tons of hashish, carried on fishing boats or cargo ships from Morocco to Libya, were seized in the Strait of Sicily by Italy’s Guardia di Finanza (Financial Police) thanks to an international police investigation named “Operazione Libeccio”, carried out by the GICO (Gruppo Investigativo Criminalità Organizzata, Organised Crime Investigation Group), a unit of the tax police of Palermo under the supervision of the DDA (Direzione Distrettuale Antimafia) of Palermo.<br />
<br />
“What is happening in Libya is same historical occurrence that happened years ago in Afghanistan. Such as the Talibans who financed their terroristic activities with heroin trafficking for the purchase of weapons, the Caliphate is proposing the same terroristic strategy by purchasing and commercialising hashish in order to purchase weapons used in their war” Sergio Barbera, Deputy General Prosecutor of Palermo, said.
    CIPG_20160607_NYT-Smuggling_5M3_1271.jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 7 JUNE 2016: Sergio Barbera, Deputy General Prosecutor of Palermo, poses for a portrait in his office in the courthouse of Palermo, Italy, on June 7th 2016.<br />
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Between January 2014 e December 2015 more than 120 tons of hashish, carried on fishing boats or cargo ships from Morocco to Libya, were seized in the Strait of Sicily by Italy’s Guardia di Finanza (Financial Police) thanks to an international police investigation named “Operazione Libeccio”, carried out by the GICO (Gruppo Investigativo Criminalità Organizzata, Organised Crime Investigation Group), a unit of the tax police of Palermo under the supervision of the DDA (Direzione Distrettuale Antimafia) of Palermo.<br />
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“What is happening in Libya is same historical occurrence that happened years ago in Afghanistan. Such as the Talibans who financed their terroristic activities with heroin trafficking for the purchase of weapons, the Caliphate is proposing the same terroristic strategy by purchasing and commercialising hashish in order to purchase weapons used in their war” Sergio Barbera, Deputy General Prosecutor of Palermo, said.
    CIPG_20160607_NYT-Smuggling_5M3_1244.jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 6 JUNE 2016: (L-R) Cargo ship Munzur and fishing boat Ozu 2, seized respectively in December 2015 with 13 tons of hashish and in July 2015 with 5 tons of hashish within the "Operazione Libeccio", are docked here in the harbor of Palermo, Italy, on June 6th 2016.<br />
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Between January 2014 e December 2015 more than 120 tons of hashish, carried on fishing boats or cargo ships from Morocco to Libya, were seized in the Strait of Sicily by Italy’s Guardia di Finanza (Financial Police) thanks to an international police investigation named “Operazione Libeccio”, carried out by the GICO (Gruppo Investigativo Criminalità Organizzata, Organised Crime Investigation Group), a unit of the tax police of Palermo under the supervision of the DDA (Direzione Distrettuale Antimafia) of Palermo.<br />
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“What is happening in Libya is same historical occurrence that happened years ago in Afghanistan. Such as the Talibans who financed their terroristic activities with heroin trafficking for the purchase of weapons, the Caliphate is proposing the same terroristic strategy by purchasing and commercialising hashish in order to purchase weapons used in their war” Sergio Barbera, Deputy General Prosecutor of Palermo, said.
    CIPG_20160606_NYT-Smuggling_5M3_1160.jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 6 JUNE 2016: (R-L) Cargo ships Munzur and Meryem, seized respectively in December 2015 with 13 tons of hashish and in June 2015 with 20 tons of hashish within the "Operazione Libeccio", are docked here in the harbor of Palermo, Italy, on June 6th 2016.<br />
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Between January 2014 e December 2015 more than 120 tons of hashish, carried on fishing boats or cargo ships from Morocco to Libya, were seized in the Strait of Sicily by Italy’s Guardia di Finanza (Financial Police) thanks to an international police investigation named “Operazione Libeccio”, carried out by the GICO (Gruppo Investigativo Criminalità Organizzata, Organised Crime Investigation Group), a unit of the tax police of Palermo under the supervision of the DDA (Direzione Distrettuale Antimafia) of Palermo.<br />
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“What is happening in Libya is same historical occurrence that happened years ago in Afghanistan. Such as the Talibans who financed their terroristic activities with heroin trafficking for the purchase of weapons, the Caliphate is proposing the same terroristic strategy by purchasing and commercialising hashish in order to purchase weapons used in their war” Sergio Barbera, Deputy General Prosecutor of Palermo, said.
    CIPG_20160606_NYT-Smuggling_5M3_1149.jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 6 JUNE 2016: (L-R) Cargo ships Munzur and Meryem, seized respectively in December 2015 with 13 tons of hashish and in June 2015 with 20 tons of hashish within the "Operazione Libeccio", are docked here in the harbor of Palermo, Italy, on June 6th 2016.<br />
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Between January 2014 e December 2015 more than 120 tons of hashish, carried on fishing boats or cargo ships from Morocco to Libya, were seized in the Strait of Sicily by Italy’s Guardia di Finanza (Financial Police) thanks to an international police investigation named “Operazione Libeccio”, carried out by the GICO (Gruppo Investigativo Criminalità Organizzata, Organised Crime Investigation Group), a unit of the tax police of Palermo under the supervision of the DDA (Direzione Distrettuale Antimafia) of Palermo.<br />
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“What is happening in Libya is same historical occurrence that happened years ago in Afghanistan. Such as the Talibans who financed their terroristic activities with heroin trafficking for the purchase of weapons, the Caliphate is proposing the same terroristic strategy by purchasing and commercialising hashish in order to purchase weapons used in their war” Sergio Barbera, Deputy General Prosecutor of Palermo, said.
    CIPG_20160606_NYT-Smuggling_5M3_1067.jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 6 JUNE 2016: (L-R) Cargo ships Munzur and Meryem, seized respectively in December 2015 with 13 tons of hashish and in June 2015 with 20 tons of hashish within the "Operazione Libeccio", are docked here in the harbor of Palermo, Italy, on June 6th 2016.<br />
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Between January 2014 e December 2015 more than 120 tons of hashish, carried on fishing boats or cargo ships from Morocco to Libya, were seized in the Strait of Sicily by Italy’s Guardia di Finanza (Financial Police) thanks to an international police investigation named “Operazione Libeccio”, carried out by the GICO (Gruppo Investigativo Criminalità Organizzata, Organised Crime Investigation Group), a unit of the tax police of Palermo under the supervision of the DDA (Direzione Distrettuale Antimafia) of Palermo.<br />
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“What is happening in Libya is same historical occurrence that happened years ago in Afghanistan. Such as the Talibans who financed their terroristic activities with heroin trafficking for the purchase of weapons, the Caliphate is proposing the same terroristic strategy by purchasing and commercialising hashish in order to purchase weapons used in their war” Sergio Barbera, Deputy General Prosecutor of Palermo, said.
    CIPG_20160606_NYT-Smuggling_5M3_1059.jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 6 JUNE 2016: (L-R) Cargo ships Munzur and Meryem, seized respectively in December 2015 with 13 tons of hashish and in June 2015 with 20 tons of hashish within the "Operazione Libeccio", are docked here in the harbor of Palermo, Italy, on June 6th 2016.<br />
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Between January 2014 e December 2015 more than 120 tons of hashish, carried on fishing boats or cargo ships from Morocco to Libya, were seized in the Strait of Sicily by Italy’s Guardia di Finanza (Financial Police) thanks to an international police investigation named “Operazione Libeccio”, carried out by the GICO (Gruppo Investigativo Criminalità Organizzata, Organised Crime Investigation Group), a unit of the tax police of Palermo under the supervision of the DDA (Direzione Distrettuale Antimafia) of Palermo.<br />
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“What is happening in Libya is same historical occurrence that happened years ago in Afghanistan. Such as the Talibans who financed their terroristic activities with heroin trafficking for the purchase of weapons, the Caliphate is proposing the same terroristic strategy by purchasing and commercialising hashish in order to purchase weapons used in their war” Sergio Barbera, Deputy General Prosecutor of Palermo, said.
    CIPG_20160606_NYT-Smuggling_5M3_1038.jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 6 JUNE 2016: (L-R) Fishing boat Ozu 2 and cargo ships Munzur and Meryem, seized respectively in July 2015 with 5 tons of hashish, in December 2015 with 13 tons of hashish and in  June 2015 with 12 tons of hashish within the "Operazione Libeccio", are docked here in the harbor of Palermo, Italy, on June 6th 2016.<br />
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Between January 2014 e December 2015 more than 120 tons of hashish, carried on fishing boats or cargo ships from Morocco to Libya, were seized in the Strait of Sicily by Italy’s Guardia di Finanza (Financial Police) thanks to an international police investigation named “Operazione Libeccio”, carried out by the GICO (Gruppo Investigativo Criminalità Organizzata, Organised Crime Investigation Group), a unit of the tax police of Palermo under the supervision of the DDA (Direzione Distrettuale Antimafia) of Palermo.<br />
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“What is happening in Libya is same historical occurrence that happened years ago in Afghanistan. Such as the Talibans who financed their terroristic activities with heroin trafficking for the purchase of weapons, the Caliphate is proposing the same terroristic strategy by purchasing and commercialising hashish in order to purchase weapons used in their war” Sergio Barbera, Deputy General Prosecutor of Palermo, said.
    CIPG_20160606_NYT-Smuggling_5M3_1010.jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 6 JUNE 2016: (R-L) Cargo ships Munzur and Meryem, seized respectively in December 2015 with 13 tons of hashish and in June 2015 with 20 tons of hashish within the "Operazione Libeccio", are docked here in the harbor of Palermo, Italy, on June 6th 2016.<br />
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Between January 2014 e December 2015 more than 120 tons of hashish, carried on fishing boats or cargo ships from Morocco to Libya, were seized in the Strait of Sicily by Italy’s Guardia di Finanza (Financial Police) thanks to an international police investigation named “Operazione Libeccio”, carried out by the GICO (Gruppo Investigativo Criminalità Organizzata, Organised Crime Investigation Group), a unit of the tax police of Palermo under the supervision of the DDA (Direzione Distrettuale Antimafia) of Palermo.<br />
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“What is happening in Libya is same historical occurrence that happened years ago in Afghanistan. Such as the Talibans who financed their terroristic activities with heroin trafficking for the purchase of weapons, the Caliphate is proposing the same terroristic strategy by purchasing and commercialising hashish in order to purchase weapons used in their war” Sergio Barbera, Deputy General Prosecutor of Palermo, said.
    CIPG_20160606_NYT-Smuggling_5M3_0901.jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 6 JUNE 2016: (R-L) Cargo ships Munzur and Meryem, seized respectively in December 2015 with 13 tons of hashish and in June 2015 with 20 tons of hashish within the "Operazione Libeccio", are docked here in the harbor of Palermo, Italy, on June 6th 2016.<br />
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Between January 2014 e December 2015 more than 120 tons of hashish, carried on fishing boats or cargo ships from Morocco to Libya, were seized in the Strait of Sicily by Italy’s Guardia di Finanza (Financial Police) thanks to an international police investigation named “Operazione Libeccio”, carried out by the GICO (Gruppo Investigativo Criminalità Organizzata, Organised Crime Investigation Group), a unit of the tax police of Palermo under the supervision of the DDA (Direzione Distrettuale Antimafia) of Palermo.<br />
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“What is happening in Libya is same historical occurrence that happened years ago in Afghanistan. Such as the Talibans who financed their terroristic activities with heroin trafficking for the purchase of weapons, the Caliphate is proposing the same terroristic strategy by purchasing and commercialising hashish in order to purchase weapons used in their war” Sergio Barbera, Deputy General Prosecutor of Palermo, said.
    CIPG_20160606_NYT-Smuggling_5M3_0889.jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 6 JUNE 2016: (L-R) Cargo ship Munzur and fishing boat Ozu 2, seized respectively in December 2015 with 13 tons of hashish and in July 2015 with 5 tons of hashish within the "Operazione Libeccio", are docked here in the harbor of Palermo, Italy, on June 6th 2016.<br />
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Between January 2014 e December 2015 more than 120 tons of hashish, carried on fishing boats or cargo ships from Morocco to Libya, were seized in the Strait of Sicily by Italy’s Guardia di Finanza (Financial Police) thanks to an international police investigation named “Operazione Libeccio”, carried out by the GICO (Gruppo Investigativo Criminalità Organizzata, Organised Crime Investigation Group), a unit of the tax police of Palermo under the supervision of the DDA (Direzione Distrettuale Antimafia) of Palermo.<br />
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“What is happening in Libya is same historical occurrence that happened years ago in Afghanistan. Such as the Talibans who financed their terroristic activities with heroin trafficking for the purchase of weapons, the Caliphate is proposing the same terroristic strategy by purchasing and commercialising hashish in order to purchase weapons used in their war” Sergio Barbera, Deputy General Prosecutor of Palermo, said.
    CIPG_20160606_NYT-Smuggling_5M3_0867.jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 6 JUNE 2016: (R-L) Cargo ship Meryem, seized in June 2015 with 20 tons of hashish within the "Operazione Libeccio", is docked here in the harbor of Palermo, Italy, on June 6th 2016.<br />
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Between January 2014 e December 2015 more than 120 tons of hashish, carried on fishing boats or cargo ships from Morocco to Libya, were seized in the Strait of Sicily by Italy’s Guardia di Finanza (Financial Police) thanks to an international police investigation named “Operazione Libeccio”, carried out by the GICO (Gruppo Investigativo Criminalità Organizzata, Organised Crime Investigation Group), a unit of the tax police of Palermo under the supervision of the DDA (Direzione Distrettuale Antimafia) of Palermo.<br />
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“What is happening in Libya is same historical occurrence that happened years ago in Afghanistan. Such as the Talibans who financed their terroristic activities with heroin trafficking for the purchase of weapons, the Caliphate is proposing the same terroristic strategy by purchasing and commercialising hashish in order to purchase weapons used in their war” Sergio Barbera, Deputy General Prosecutor of Palermo, said.
    CIPG_20160606_NYT-Smuggling_5M3_0778.jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 6 JUNE 2016: Flags of vessels seized by the Guardia di Finanza (Financial Police) hang on the wall in the office of the GOA unit (Gruppo Operativo Antidroga), a section of the GICO (Gruppo Investigativo Criminalità Organizzata), in the headquarters of the Guardia di Finanza (Financial Police) in Palermo, Italy, on June 6th 2016.<br />
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Between January 2014 e December 2015 more than 120 tons of hashish, carried on fishing boats or cargo ships from Morocco to Libya, were seized in the Strait of Sicily by Italy’s Guardia di Finanza (Financial Police) thanks to an international police investigation named “Operazione Libeccio”, carried out by the GICO (Gruppo Investigativo Criminalità Organizzata, Organised Crime Investigation Group), a unit of the tax police of Palermo under the supervision of the DDA (Direzione Distrettuale Antimafia) of Palermo.<br />
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“What is happening in Libya is same historical occurrence that happened years ago in Afghanistan. Such as the Talibans who financed their terroristic activities with heroin trafficking for the purchase of weapons, the Caliphate is proposing the same terroristic strategy by purchasing and commercialising hashish in order to purchase weapons used in their war” Sergio Barbera, Deputy General Prosecutor of Palermo, said.
    CIPG_20160606_NYT-Smuggling_5M3_0711.jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 6 JUNE 2016: Marshals of the Guardia di Finanza (Financial Police) are here in the interception room of the GICO (Gruppo Investigativo Criminalità Organizzata), as they listen to live interceptions and wiretaps in the headquarters of the Guardia di Finanza (Financial Police) in Palermo, Italy, on June 6th 2016.<br />
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Between January 2014 e December 2015 more than 120 tons of hashish, carried on fishing boats or cargo ships from Morocco to Libya, were seized in the Strait of Sicily by Italy’s Guardia di Finanza (Financial Police) thanks to an international police investigation named “Operazione Libeccio”, carried out by the GICO (Gruppo Investigativo Criminalità Organizzata, Organised Crime Investigation Group), a unit of the tax police of Palermo under the supervision of the DDA (Direzione Distrettuale Antimafia) of Palermo.<br />
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“What is happening in Libya is same historical occurrence that happened years ago in Afghanistan. Such as the Talibans who financed their terroristic activities with heroin trafficking for the purchase of weapons, the Caliphate is proposing the same terroristic strategy by purchasing and commercialising hashish in order to purchase weapons used in their war” Sergio Barbera, Deputy General Prosecutor of Palermo, said.
    CIPG_20160606_NYT-Smuggling_5M3_0684.jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 6 JUNE 2016: A hard disk with data extracted from computers and cell phones of the "Meryem" cargo ship, seized in June 2015 with 12 tons of hashish as it was navigating from Morocco to Libya, is here on a desk of the GOA unit (Gruppo Operativo Antidroga), a section of the GICO (Gruppo Investigativo Criminalità Organizzata), in the headquarters of the Guardia di Finanza (Financial Police) in Palermo, Italy, on June 6th 2016.<br />
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Between January 2014 e December 2015 more than 120 tons of hashish, carried on fishing boats or cargo ships from Morocco to Libya, were seized in the Strait of Sicily by Italy’s Guardia di Finanza (Financial Police) thanks to an international police investigation named “Operazione Libeccio”, carried out by the GICO (Gruppo Investigativo Criminalità Organizzata, Organised Crime Investigation Group), a unit of the tax police of Palermo under the supervision of the DDA (Direzione Distrettuale Antimafia) of Palermo.<br />
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“What is happening in Libya is same historical occurrence that happened years ago in Afghanistan. Such as the Talibans who financed their terroristic activities with heroin trafficking for the purchase of weapons, the Caliphate is proposing the same terroristic strategy by purchasing and commercialising hashish in order to purchase weapons used in their war” Sergio Barbera, Deputy General Prosecutor of Palermo, said.
    CIPG_20160606_NYT-Smuggling_5M3_0671.jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 6 JUNE 2016: Folders containing documents of the "Operazione Libeccio International", which led to the seizure of vessels carrying hashish from Morocco to Libya, are here on a desk of the GOA unit (Gruppo Operativo Antidroga), a section of the GICO (Gruppo Investigativo Criminalità Organizzata), in the headquarters of the Guardia di Finanza (Financial Police) in Palermo, Italy, on June 6th 2016.<br />
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Between January 2014 e December 2015 more than 120 tons of hashish, carried on fishing boats or cargo ships from Morocco to Libya, were seized in the Strait of Sicily by Italy’s Guardia di Finanza (Financial Police) thanks to an international police investigation named “Operazione Libeccio”, carried out by the GICO (Gruppo Investigativo Criminalità Organizzata, Organised Crime Investigation Group), a unit of the tax police of Palermo under the supervision of the DDA (Direzione Distrettuale Antimafia) of Palermo.<br />
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“What is happening in Libya is same historical occurrence that happened years ago in Afghanistan. Such as the Talibans who financed their terroristic activities with heroin trafficking for the purchase of weapons, the Caliphate is proposing the same terroristic strategy by purchasing and commercialising hashish in order to purchase weapons used in their war” Sergio Barbera, Deputy General Prosecutor of Palermo, said.
    CIPG_20160606_NYT-Smuggling_5M3_0664.jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 6 JUNE 2016: Lieutenant Colonel Giuseppe Campobasso, Commander of the GOA unit (Gruppo Operativo Antidroga) part of the GICO (Gruppo Investigativo Criminalità Organizzata), who coordinated the seizures of vessels carrying hashish from Morocco to Libya, poses for a portrait at the Guardia di Finanzia (Financial Police) headquarters in Palermo, Italy, on June 6th 2016.<br />
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Between January 2014 e December 2015 more than 120 tons of hashish, carried on fishing boats or cargo ships from Morocco to Libya, were seized in the Strait of Sicily by Italy’s Guardia di Finanza (Financial Police) thanks to an international police investigation named “Operazione Libeccio”, carried out by the GICO (Gruppo Investigativo Criminalità Organizzata, Organised Crime Investigation Group), a unit of the tax police of Palermo under the supervision of the DDA (Direzione Distrettuale Antimafia) of Palermo.<br />
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“What is happening in Libya is same historical occurrence that happened years ago in Afghanistan. Such as the Talibans who financed their terroristic activities with heroin trafficking for the purchase of weapons, the Caliphate is proposing the same terroristic strategy by purchasing and commercialising hashish in order to purchase weapons used in their war” Sergio Barbera, Deputy General Prosecutor of Palermo, said.
    CIPG_20160606_NYT-Smuggling_5M3_0658.jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 6 JUNE 2016: Lieutenant Colonel Giuseppe Campobasso, Commander of the GOA unit (Gruppo Operativo Antidroga) part of the GICO (Gruppo Investigativo Criminalità Organizzata), who coordinated the seizures of vessels carrying hashish from Morocco to Libya, poses for a portrait at the Guardia di Finanzia (Financial Police) headquarters in Palermo, Italy, on June 6th 2016.<br />
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Between January 2014 e December 2015 more than 120 tons of hashish, carried on fishing boats or cargo ships from Morocco to Libya, were seized in the Strait of Sicily by Italy’s Guardia di Finanza (Financial Police) thanks to an international police investigation named “Operazione Libeccio”, carried out by the GICO (Gruppo Investigativo Criminalità Organizzata, Organised Crime Investigation Group), a unit of the tax police of Palermo under the supervision of the DDA (Direzione Distrettuale Antimafia) of Palermo.<br />
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“What is happening in Libya is same historical occurrence that happened years ago in Afghanistan. Such as the Talibans who financed their terroristic activities with heroin trafficking for the purchase of weapons, the Caliphate is proposing the same terroristic strategy by purchasing and commercialising hashish in order to purchase weapons used in their war” Sergio Barbera, Deputy General Prosecutor of Palermo, said.
    CIPG_20160606_NYT-Smuggling_5M3_0622.jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 6 JUNE 2016: Colonel Francesco Mazzotta, Commander of the Tax Police Unit of Palermo that coordinated the seizures of vessels carrying hashish from Morocco to Libya, poses for a portrait in the Guardia di Finanza (Financial Police) headquarters in Palermo, Italy, on June 6th 2016.<br />
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Between January 2014 e December 2015 more than 120 tons of hashish, carried on fishing boats or cargo ships from Morocco to Libya, were seized in the Strait of Sicily by Italy’s Guardia di Finanza (Financial Police) thanks to an international police investigation named “Operazione Libeccio”, carried out by the GICO (Gruppo Investigativo Criminalità Organizzata, Organised Crime Investigation Group), a unit of the tax police of Palermo under the supervision of the DDA (Direzione Distrettuale Antimafia) of Palermo.<br />
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“What is happening in Libya is same historical occurrence that happened years ago in Afghanistan. Such as the Talibans who financed their terroristic activities with heroin trafficking for the purchase of weapons, the Caliphate is proposing the same terroristic strategy by purchasing and commercialising hashish in order to purchase weapons used in their war” Sergio Barbera, Deputy General Prosecutor of Palermo, said.
    CIPG_20160606_NYT-Smuggling_5M3_0494.jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 6 JUNE 2016: Six blocks of approximately 250 grams (8.81 ounces) of hashish each, seized in December 2015 on the cargo ship Munzur carrying 13 tons of hashish divided into 500 jute suitcases, iare shown here in a conference room of the Guardia di Finanza (Financial Police) headquarters in Palermo, Italy, on June 6th 2016.<br />
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Between January 2014 e December 2015 more than 120 tons of hashish, carried on fishing boats or cargo ships from Morocco to Libya, were seized in the Strait of Sicily by Italy’s Guardia di Finanza (Financial Police) thanks to an international police investigation named “Operazione Libeccio”, carried out by the GICO (Gruppo Investigativo Criminalità Organizzata, Organised Crime Investigation Group), a unit of the tax police of Palermo under the supervision of the DDA (Direzione Distrettuale Antimafia) of Palermo.<br />
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“What is happening in Libya is same historical occurrence that happened years ago in Afghanistan. Such as the Talibans who financed their terroristic activities with heroin trafficking for the purchase of weapons, the Caliphate is proposing the same terroristic strategy by purchasing and commercialising hashish in order to purchase weapons used in their war” Sergio Barbera, Deputy General Prosecutor of Palermo, said.
    CIPG_20160606_NYT-Smuggling_5M3_0445.jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 6 JUNE 2016: Six blocks of approximately 250 grams (8.81 ounces) of hashish each, seized in December 2015 on the cargo ship Munzur carrying 13 tons of hashish divided into 500 jute suitcases, iare shown here in a conference room of the Guardia di Finanza (Financial Police) headquarters in Palermo, Italy, on June 6th 2016.<br />
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Between January 2014 e December 2015 more than 120 tons of hashish, carried on fishing boats or cargo ships from Morocco to Libya, were seized in the Strait of Sicily by Italy’s Guardia di Finanza (Financial Police) thanks to an international police investigation named “Operazione Libeccio”, carried out by the GICO (Gruppo Investigativo Criminalità Organizzata, Organised Crime Investigation Group), a unit of the tax police of Palermo under the supervision of the DDA (Direzione Distrettuale Antimafia) of Palermo.<br />
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“What is happening in Libya is same historical occurrence that happened years ago in Afghanistan. Such as the Talibans who financed their terroristic activities with heroin trafficking for the purchase of weapons, the Caliphate is proposing the same terroristic strategy by purchasing and commercialising hashish in order to purchase weapons used in their war” Sergio Barbera, Deputy General Prosecutor of Palermo, said.
    CIPG_20160606_NYT-Smuggling_5M3_0436.jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 6 JUNE 2016: A jute suitcase containing 100 blocks of hashish for a total of approximately 25kg (55 lbs), seized in December 2015 on the cargo ship Munzur carrying 13 tons of hashish divided into 500 jute suitcases, is shown here in a conference room of the Guardia di Finanza headquarters in Palermo, Italy, on June 6th 2016.<br />
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Between January 2014 e December 2015 more than 120 tons of hashish, carried on fishing boats or cargo ships from Morocco to Libya, were seized in the Strait of Sicily by Italy’s Guardia di Finanza (Financial Police) thanks to an international police investigation named “Operazione Libeccio”, carried out by the GICO (Gruppo Investigativo Criminalità Organizzata, Organised Crime Investigation Group), a unit of the tax police of Palermo under the supervision of the DDA (Direzione Distrettuale Antimafia) of Palermo.<br />
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“What is happening in Libya is same historical occurrence that happened years ago in Afghanistan. Such as the Talibans who financed their terroristic activities with heroin trafficking for the purchase of weapons, the Caliphate is proposing the same terroristic strategy by purchasing and commercialising hashish in order to purchase weapons used in their war” Sergio Barbera, Deputy General Prosecutor of Palermo, said.
    CIPG_20160606_NYT-Smuggling_5M3_0432.jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 6 JUNE 2016: A marshal of the Guardia di Finanza (Financial Police) opens a jute suitcase containing 100 blocks of hashish for a total of approximately 25kg (55 lbs), seized in December 2015 on the cargo ship Munzur carrying 13 tons of hashish divided into 500 jute suitcases, here in a conference room of the Guardia di Finanza headquarters in Palermo, Italy, on June 6th 2016.<br />
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Between January 2014 e December 2015 more than 120 tons of hashish, carried on fishing boats or cargo ships from Morocco to Libya, were seized in the Strait of Sicily  by Italy’s Guardia di Finanza (Financial Police) thanks to an international police investigation named “Operazione Libeccio”, carried out by the GICO (Gruppo Investigativo Criminalità Organizzata, Organised Crime Investigation Group), a unit of the tax police of Palermo under the supervision of the DDA (Direzione Distrettuale Antimafia) of Palermo.<br />
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“What is happening in Libya is same historical occurrence that happened years ago in Afghanistan. Such as the Talibans who financed their terroristic activities with heroin trafficking for the purchase of weapons, the Caliphate is proposing the same terroristic strategy by purchasing and commercialising hashish in order to purchase weapons used in their war” Sergio Barbera, Deputy General Prosecutor of Palermo, said.
    CIPG_20160606_NYT-Smuggling_5M3_0390.jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 6 JUNE 2016: (L-R) Reporter Rukmini Callimachi, Lieutenant Colonel Giuseppe Campobasso, Commander of the GOA unit (Gruppo Operativo Antidroga) and reporter Lorenzo Tondo are here in the conference room of the Guardia di FInanza (Financial Police) headquarters as they go over details of the seizures of vessels carrying hashish from Morocco to Libya, in Palermo, Italy, on June 6th 2016.<br />
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Between January 2014 e December 2015 more than 120 tons of hashish, carried on fishing boats or cargo ships from Morocco to Libya, were seized in the Strait of Sicily by Italy’s Guardia di Finanza (Financial Police) thanks to an international police investigation named “Operazione Libeccio”, carried out by the GICO (Gruppo Investigativo Criminalità Organizzata, Organised Crime Investigation Group), a unit of the tax police of Palermo under the supervision of the DDA (Direzione Distrettuale Antimafia) of Palermo.<br />
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“What is happening in Libya is same historical occurrence that happened years ago in Afghanistan. Such as the Talibans who financed their terroristic activities with heroin trafficking for the purchase of weapons, the Caliphate is proposing the same terroristic strategy by purchasing and commercialising hashish in order to purchase weapons used in their war” Sergio Barbera, Deputy General Prosecutor of Palermo, said.
    CIPG_20160606_NYT-Smuggling_5M3_0595.jpg
  • TRAPANI, ITALY - 7 JUNE 2016: A marshal of the Guardia di Finanza (Financial Police) stands by the cargo ship Aberdeen, seized in June 2014 as it was carrying 42 tons of hashish from Morocco to Libya, is docked here in the harbor in Trapani, Italy, on June 7th 2016.<br />
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Between January 2014 e December 2015 more than 120 tons of hashish, carried on fishing boats or cargo ships from Morocco to Libya, were seized in the Strait of Sicily by Italy’s Guardia di Finanza (Financial Police) thanks to an international police investigation named “Operazione Libeccio”, carried out by the GICO (Gruppo Investigativo Criminalità Organizzata, Organised Crime Investigation Group), a unit of the tax police of Palermo under the supervision of the DDA (Direzione Distrettuale Antimafia) of Palermo.<br />
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“What is happening in Libya is same historical occurrence that happened years ago in Afghanistan. Such as the Talibans who financed their terroristic activities with heroin trafficking for the purchase of weapons, the Caliphate is proposing the same terroristic strategy by purchasing and commercialising hashish in order to purchase weapons used in their war” Sergio Barbera, Deputy General Prosecutor of Palermo, said.
    CIPG_20160607_NYT-Smuggling_5M3_1890.jpg
  • TRAPANI, ITALY - 7 JUNE 2016: Cargo ship Just Noran, seized by the Guardia di Finanza (Financial Police) in June 2014 as it was carrying 28 tons of hashish from Morocco to Libya, is docked here in the harbor in Trapani, Italy, on June 7th 2016.<br />
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Between January 2014 e December 2015 more than 120 tons of hashish, carried on fishing boats or cargo ships from Morocco to Libya, were seized in the Strait of Sicily by Italy’s Guardia di Finanza (Financial Police) thanks to an international police investigation named “Operazione Libeccio”, carried out by the GICO (Gruppo Investigativo Criminalità Organizzata, Organised Crime Investigation Group), a unit of the tax police of Palermo under the supervision of the DDA (Direzione Distrettuale Antimafia) of Palermo.<br />
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“What is happening in Libya is same historical occurrence that happened years ago in Afghanistan. Such as the Talibans who financed their terroristic activities with heroin trafficking for the purchase of weapons, the Caliphate is proposing the same terroristic strategy by purchasing and commercialising hashish in order to purchase weapons used in their war” Sergio Barbera, Deputy General Prosecutor of Palermo, said.
    CIPG_20160607_NYT-Smuggling_5M3_1844.jpg
  • TRAPANI, ITALY - 7 JUNE 2016: Cargo ship Just Noran, seized by the Guardia di Finanza (Financial Police) in June 2014 as it was carrying 28 tons of hashish from Morocco to Libya, is docked here in the harbor in Trapani, Italy, on June 7th 2016.<br />
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Between January 2014 e December 2015 more than 120 tons of hashish, carried on fishing boats or cargo ships from Morocco to Libya, were seized in the Strait of Sicily by Italy’s Guardia di Finanza (Financial Police) thanks to an international police investigation named “Operazione Libeccio”, carried out by the GICO (Gruppo Investigativo Criminalità Organizzata, Organised Crime Investigation Group), a unit of the tax police of Palermo under the supervision of the DDA (Direzione Distrettuale Antimafia) of Palermo.<br />
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“What is happening in Libya is same historical occurrence that happened years ago in Afghanistan. Such as the Talibans who financed their terroristic activities with heroin trafficking for the purchase of weapons, the Caliphate is proposing the same terroristic strategy by purchasing and commercialising hashish in order to purchase weapons used in their war” Sergio Barbera, Deputy General Prosecutor of Palermo, said.
    CIPG_20160607_NYT-Smuggling_5M3_1803.jpg
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