Mafia, seized the Nice group’s arsenal

The Catania carabinieri seized an arsenal believed to be in use by the Nizza mafia group of the Santapaola-Ercolano ‘family’. The weapons were hidden in a farmhouse in a state of apparent abandonment and in the vicinity of a school building in the historic San Cristoforo district. The carabinieri found nine pistols and long guns, some of them war, such as two Soviet-made 2 AK 47 Kalashnikov submachine guns, efficient and in excellent condition, as well as about 900 ammunition of various calibers. grenade launcher, with six modified grenades, and twelve homemade explosive devices of the ‘pipe bomb’ and ‘flash bang’ type with high disruptive power and ‘chipping’ effect.