TRIESTE (ITALPRESS) – The “back-valley” checks conducted by the Aurisina Carabinieri Company do not stop. On the morning of March 6, during a service aimed at searching for fugitives, soldiers from the Prosecco Station under the aforementioned Company located and arrested a 45-year-old Romanian citizen who had been a fugitive since 2016.
The man stopped near the border on board a bus from Spain bound for Romania was duly identified after a thorough check in the Police database, and an arrest warrant that had remained unexecuted for years emerged against him.
The individual, already known to Italian authorities, had in fact been the subject of an investigation conducted by the Nucleo Operativo e Radiomobile of the L’Aquila Carabinieri Company, as part of a criminal syndicate dedicated to copper thefts committed in late 2015 in the four Abruzzo provinces. Specifically, the 45-year-old penetrated sites at night where photovoltaic panel systems were installed, damaging electrical lines and components and removing hundreds of meters of copper cables.
Following investigations coordinated by the L’Aquila Public Prosecutor’s Office, the Judge for Preliminary Investigations of the Abruzzo capital had ordered his capture to be placed under house arrest, which was never carried out because the subject had gone underground, evading justice and thus triggering a decree of absconding.
Since then, for nearly a decade, he had evaded all attempts at tracing, managing to move discreetly between various European countries. Investigations suggest that the fugitive had found refuge precisely abroad, never returning to Italy except to transit back to his home country. It was precisely one of these movements to return home that proved fatal: border controls by the Carabinieri of the Aurisina Company, and in particular the Prosecco Station, made it possible to intercept him and put an end to his escape.
The man was stopped during a “retrovalico” service, which is a monitoring activity that the Carabinieri carry out in areas bordering state borders to counter illicit trafficking in illegal materials, illegal immigration, and the presence of dangerous or wanted individuals. At the sight of the military, the fugitive maintained an apparently calm attitude, but cross-checks on the databases immediately revealed his real identity and that, on his person, there was therefore an arrest warrant.
The Criminal Section of the L’Aquila Court of Appeals informed of the tracing substituted the house arrest measure with custody in prison, which was immediately executed.
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