Here are the salient details, minus the fluff:

The haul had an estimated value of €47.5m, Mr Langella said, a figure which includes the value of the consoles and hundreds of licenses for the pirated programs.

They were "all from China" and were imported to be sold in specialised shops or online, Mr Langella said.

All the devices were fitted with non-certified batteries and electrical circuits and did not meet EU technical or safety standards. The seized games have been destroyed.

Nine Italian nationals have been arrested and charged with trading in counterfeited goods. If found guilty, they face up to eight years in prison.

Gee. The police are still protecting us by smashing fun things

Edit: Since I don't in any way routinely buy from these guys, there's no way I can possibly let y'all know later, when the supply is in no noticable way diminished by this.

smashed

So, I'm not sure where everyone else is, and maybe I'm in the wrong, but, Why?

Not meeting "safety standards"?

Did they leave out the epilepsy warning or something?

This doesn't feel like "keeping people safe" to me. Fuck the police.

That's an expensive ring.

50 micro-euros doesn’t seem like a lot.

Did the cops raid a museum?
A library?
A conservation project?

/s