Vicenza, false alarm at the train station: 40-year-old from Cosenza reported

Tonight, around 00.25 am, called 113 reporting that inside of the railway station of Vicenza an explosive device was present, positioned by a fugitive North African terrorist.

Before activating the anti-terrorism emergency plan, the Agents of State Police on duty at the Police Headquarters Operations Room However, they carried out a preliminary assessment of telephone users where the report came from.

And so they found that the interlocutor was a well-known mythomaniac, known in several police stations in Italy for similar false reports. He had made the last ones just a few days earlier in Venice and Treviso.

For precautionary purposes However, the flying squads were sent of the Police Headquarters at the railway station and the Railway Police was alerted (PolFer) for targeted checks in this regard, the outcome of which was however negative: no explosive device present in the reported location or nearby.

Thus, against the author of the false report, confirmed to be an Italian citizen born in 1984 residing in Cosenza, a complaint was made for causing an alarm.