The educational initiative devoted to environmental protection ended with a surprise. Students from the Italian island of Ischia who went on a forest clean-up campaign found five kilograms of hashish hidden in bags worth about EUR 40,000.
Students from the Italian island of Ischia who went on a forest clean-up campaign found five kilograms of hashish hidden in bags – reported the southern daily “Il Mattino”. Italian. The local PlasticFree association organized a forest clean-up campaign in which over 200 girls and boys from high schools participated.
Equipped with cleaning equipment, they set off into the forest. One group immediately saw two bags placed under large stones. The contents of the bags aroused the suspicions of one of the students, who notified the teachers accompanying them.
Police on the island of IschiaTwitter/poliziadistato
With them were several Carabinieri, including the captain of this formation, invited by the organizers to talk to the youth about environmental protection. The carabinieri immediately realized what was in the bags. Inside they found 45 packages of hashish, the black market value of which was estimated at about EUR 40,000, the newspaper added.
The drugs were confiscated and an investigation was launched to determine who hid them.
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