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According to a report by the British “BBC”, the Italian authorities revealed that they had seized about 15 tons of amphetamine “Captagon”, or about 84 million pills with an economic value of about a billion dollars.
According to the details, the source of the drugs is Syria, and Italian authorities believed that the Islamic State “ISIS” was behind the deal. However, subsequent investigations and investigations showed that the Bashar al-Assad regime and its Lebanese ally “Hezbollah” were behind it.
The BBC explained to the Middle East, Quentin Somerville, that “drugs are an important source of funding for Syria and the party.”
He noted that “another wave of drug trafficking around the world has been linked to the Syrian regime and Hezbollah, not just drugs seized in Italy.”
According to the investigation supervised by the Naples prosecutor, the drugs were contained in three suspicious containers that included rolls of paper intended for industrial use and iron wheels.
Isolation measures due to the new Corona virus have hampered the production and distribution of drugs made in Europe, prompting smugglers to bring them in from Syria, which is witnessing a conflict.
Italian police confirmed that Captagon, which is sold in the Middle East, is “popular with combatants to reduce feelings of fear and pain.”
This narcotic substance, which was originally produced in Lebanon and distributed in Saudi Arabia in the 1990s, was found in the hideouts of terrorists who carried out the 2015 Paris attacks, especially in the Bataclan concert hall.
Investigators believe that “the amount seized is capable of meeting the needs of a European market greater than the needs of the Italian market.”
Since 2011, Syria has experienced a conflict that, since its outbreak, has caused the death of more than 380,000 people and the displacement of more than half of the population within and outside the country.
