The sale of the plants would have earned over a million euros on the illegal market.

(LaPresse) The Guardia di Finanza of Catania, Sicily, discovered in recent days in a wooded area in the municipality of Vizzini, three marijuana plantations with more than 1,500 plants connected by a remotely operated irrigation system. The military of the Caltagirone Company, thanks to the support of the Palermo Air Section and sophisticated means were able to locate the only access routes to the area and seized the entire area of the plantations, as well as the equipment, liquid fertilizers and other the materials used for cultivation, found on site. The sale of the plants would have earned over a million euros on the illegal market.

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