Author: Massimo Carlotto

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  • IN: Bandit Love (2009) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: To the Minister of the Interior, to the Minister of Justice... On March 17th of this year, at the Institute of Legal Medicine of the University of Padua, there was a burglary resulting in the theft of a substantial quantity of illegal narcotics [...] the narcotics were being held in the laboratories for toxicological testing of the active principles. The narcotics in question comprised a total weight of approximately forty-four (44) kilograms, subdivided into thirty (30) kilograms of heroin, ten (10) kilograms of cocaine, and the rest in smaller lots of amphetamines, pills and other substances [...}. These illegal substances were located in the storerooms of the laboratory of the Institute; access to those storerooms was blocked by an armored door; only those in possession of a magetic card and accompanying alphanumeric code could enter without triggering the electronic security alarm. According to media reports,the theft was carried out without any evidence of damage to the locks of the armored doors and by deactivation of the alarm system...
    FROM: Written response to parliamentary inquiry 4-10236 -- session no. 476, (2004), NULL, NULL