“On the ground, to the ground, to the ground!” The Civil Guard agents shout, accompanied by the Italian Carabinieri. Without reaction margin, man is reduced and handcuff. “We are going to take away the backpack”, It is heard to order one of the agents, in the images of the moment distributed this Sunday. In the interior, the police found 100,000 euros, according to the Italian police. The detainee is Massimiliano del Vecchio, 42, since 2023 accused of drug trafficking and they found on August 6 in Barcelona.
Del Vecchio came out at that time of the dentist who had been visited in Barcelona, anesthetized, after the placement of an implant, according to the Italian police in a press conference the day after the arrest. The agents place him in Spain since 2023, based in the area of Alicante, where he lived alongside “his narrowest family nucleus”, as explained by the press release distributed by. For “everyday and personal life” issues, they detected that he was traveling to Barcelona.
| Arrested a flight from Italian justice included in the list of the most dangerous
The now detainee led a clan dedicated to drug trafficking in the center of the Italian Peninsula.
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Inside the backpack, the agents found the various banknotes, in white plastic bags, as well as the false documentation and annotations they now study. Police investigate who provided him with a refuge in Spain, a country with which the suspect maintains strong links related to the drug business, according to investigators.
The police managed to locate Del Vecchio in Spain in part thanks to the monitoring of social networks. The man was already arrested in 2022italiana, and last year he was again subject to another investigation with more than one fortnight of detainees, from which he had managed to escape, according to various Italian media. After being arrested in Barcelona, the man made available to the Central Court of Instruction in functions of the National Court, waiting for the delivery procedure to the Italian authorities to be resolved.
