(Update) Beja: The three Sicilians charged with drug trafficking in the Southwest Festival, They missed the trial.
The three Italian individuals, coming from Sicily, which should have begun to be tried today in the Court of Beja, accused as co-authors of um crime of drug trafficking, They missed the trial. retrial was scheduled for 6 July.
Update: Dário Cannata, 25 year old, Ângelo Carollo, 32 Salvatore years and Lannino, 37 year old, They missed the trial today, with the Collective of Judges, chaired by Cristina Calado, set a new date. They will be sent letters rogatory to the accused to appear before the Court of Beja, a 6 July.
Besides the lawyers attended the two military GNR, responsible for the seizure of drugs. According to the representative of Darius Cannata, this will be in Sydney (Australia), but “available to testify in court”.
Initial news: Or case dates back to August 2010 and the three Sicilians, aged 25 and 37 year old, They were caught by the GNR inside a house in ruins, located on the Mount of depopulated, along the Southwest Festival grounds, county of Odemira, which "gave a party".
According to the prosecution order that the Lidador news (LN) We had access, in the old house "individuals passed music and sold drugs to whom there were to move".
Military core of Criminal Investigation (NIC) GNR did a search and the ruins of the housing, within an excavated hole in the wall, they found 12 cannabis with acorns 54,951 grams, sufficient to 239 doses (photo of Lidador News file).
This search has occurred after being found 63,447 grams of sodium bicarbonate and 24 white chalk sticks, the military believe that would be used as "cutting substance" and thus "increase" yield "d drug sale. These two products were hidden in the lid of a turntable.
Salvatore, the oldest individual, now with 37 year old, It was also subject to a magazine and a bag, carrying the waist, He watched: 9,389 grams of cocaine, or sufficient to 13 individual doses, 3,111 grams of opium, 1,25 grams of MDMA, para sis doses e 4 2C-B tablets.
The case comes to trial five years later and as the defendants were subject to term of identity and residence, and it was possible to determine, They have long left Portugal, unaware if they present themselves to trial.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
