The investigation into the Nigerian mafia in Sassari's historic center has been closed.
Last May, 22 arrests were made: a drug dealing ring linked to the Supreme Vikings Confraternity was dismantled.Per restare aggiornato entra nel nostro canale Whatsapp
The investigation into the alleged mafia-style conspiracy that led the State Police to arrest 22 people in May last year, 14 of them in Sassari alone, has been concluded.
An investigation coordinated by several Italian prosecutors' offices had struck across the peninsula and the capital of Sassari, dismantling a drug trafficking network that, in addition to Sassari, Cagliari, Alghero, and Olbia, also involved cities such as Rome, Florence, Naples, Verona, Parma, and Turin. The network was allegedly managed by the Supreme Vikings Confraternity, linked to Nigerian cults, which, according to the charges, reported to the Mother House in the West African country, and which had several branches, including one in Sassari, known as "Water Side."
The organization was based on a top-down structure, managed by top figures such as the Executioner, at the top of the hierarchy, followed by the Emeretus, and so on up the hierarchy, including couriers, informants, cashiers, and retailers, whose "mission" was to sell heroin and cocaine from various European countries—Spain, France, and the Netherlands—and from Africa. Prosecutors Gaetano Alberto Porcu and Rita Cariello, who are leading the investigation, also contest the Supreme Vikings' actions, which sought to intimidate fellow Nigerians into joining the brotherhood and thus "engage" them in drug dealing.
"Coercive recruitment," as it's called, through violence, which was then defined in the training of its followers. Prosecutors believe several kilos of heroin and cocaine were sold, particularly in the Sassari square. Under the nicknames "white," "black," "up," "down," and "white and red shoes," among others, they were purchased on Via San Donato and surrounding streets, right in the historic center. Nearly 70 charges have been filed against those under investigation for alleged crimes since 2018. In Sassari, the non-EU citizens are being represented by lawyers Emiliano Alfonso, Elisabetta Udassi, Carlo Pinna Parpaglia, Francesco Sasso, and Giuseppe Onorato.