Piacenza

Among them Hamza Lyamani, 28, drug dealer, convict, addict and informant for the corrupt Carabinieri. He is the whistleblower. He got severely beaten up by the crooked cops, allegedly, and decided to speak to the judges about the mafia system established. His revelations led to the arrest of tens of people: cops and other dealers. As a result of these arrests a war gang erupted both in and out of prison. Hamza had crucial information about the crooked cops, their associates and their competitors. People whom he met later in jail, sadly for him.

Giuseppe Montella is also being detained in the same prison, he faces a 12 years sentence. Montella is considered to be the super bad cop, head of the gang of 5 corrupt policemen. He is on trial for criminal conspiracy, torture, drug trafficking, robbery, extortion, illegal arrests and detentions. These are only the main charges against the Carabinieri. But there is more. Allegedly, the cops used to get severily stoned on pot and high on booze in fancy bars and then return to the police station where they would have orgies and gangbangs with tranvestite street prostitutes. Jacques Cousteau could never get this low.

Most of the people arrested and used by Montella’s gang were immigrants, clandestines, low life and underdogs who live in totally degrading conditions for such a wealthy city as Piacenza. A dozen people live in the place we depicted in this report. None of them wanted to be interviewed.

Were the narco cops in northern Italy linked to the southern mafia and did the mafia infest Piacenza? Most probably. The cops ran their business dealing directly with big mafia calabrese bosses in Milan and selling their dope all over Piacenza. It all ended because of greed.

Montella had a flamboyant living style. He was living in his villa with a swimming pool and having wild parties during the Covid lockdown. He also had a collection of sports cars. Montella was a small-time crooked cop who was not satisfied with his 1,300 euro month salary and founded a criminal gang made of corrupt and brutal cops. The good cops arrested him in July 2020 before he could expande, before he could become a true drug lord.