Villesse, Carabinieri arrest Chinese smuggler with six illegal immigrants on board.
In the industrial area of Villesse, the Carabinieri stop a fifty-eight-year-old Chinese man accused of aiding illegal immigration. Six compatriots reported and taken to the police station.
Villesse, Carabinieri arrest Chinese smuggler with six illegal immigrants on board.
Within the preventive and territorial control services implemented by the Carabinieri and reinforced during the holiday period both in urban contexts and in peripheral centres, in all places with a greater influx of people or in the centres of greatest aggregation, even in the evening hours, on the night of December 26th just passed, the carabinieri of the Villesse Station they intercepted, at around three in the morning, in the industrial area of that center, a suspicious minivan with 7 individuals inside it.
From immediate checks it was possible to ascertain that, while the driver (a fifty-eight year old of Chinese origin) is resident in Sicily but regularly domiciled in the Tuscan province of Prato, i six passengers (four men and two women, all compatriots of the driver and aged between twenty and fifty-five) were illegal immigrants in Italian territory.
The alleged “Passeur”, following subsequent checks, it was arrested for aiding illegal immigration and associated with the prison of Gorizia, while the six passengers were reported while at liberty for entry into the national territory under an illegal regime and accompanied to the Gorizia Police Headquarters offices for aspects of competence.
It should be emphasized that the procedure is still under investigation and that the persons under investigation have the right not to be considered guilty until responsibility has been ascertained with irrevocable sentence or decree of conviction.
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