BOLZANO. The passport? You might as well make it at home. This is what two South Tyrolean women who yesterday afternoon, Monday 30 September, showed up at Bolzano airport, determined to board a flight to Ibiza, must have thought, perhaps frightened by the bureaucratic delays in obtaining the document.
At around 1.45pm the two women, one already in possession of a ticket and the other with the intention of purchasing it at the moment, began the boarding procedures, presenting an elusive “Universal Pass” to the police officers in charge of border controls. , that is, a sort of “self-produced document” in which the personal details were reported.
In fact, a piece of paper without any legal value, but which for some should be recognized as a valid document. Among these, explains the police headquarters, there are those belonging to the “ONE PEOPLE I AM” group, a kind of “sect” present in some Italian locations and also abroad, which refuses to recognize state authority and prints independently fake identity documents in the name of their followers, containing fingerprints imprinted in blood.
The officers repeatedly tried to make the two women understand that without a valid identity document they would not be allowed to board, and that the cards in their possession had no legal value. The women, for their part, refused to show a valid identity document for travel abroad. Result: not only did they not leave, but they were also accompanied to the police station to be detained for identification.
At the end of the activities, the two women – a 51-year-old from Val Badia, and a 58-year-old from Brunico, both with criminal records – were reported to the Public Prosecutor’s Office for the crime of resisting a Public Official.
Furthermore, with respect to the first, the agents seized approximately 20,000 euros in cash, which the woman was about to transfer abroad without a customs declaration for the sum exceeding that permitted by law, and of which she, who professed to be penniless, she was unable to justify its origin.
The police commissioner Paolo Sartori, in consideration of what has been ascertained, has issued a mandatory expulsion order with a ban on return to the Municipality of Bolzano for the next 2 years in relation to both personal prevention measures, as well as an oral warning, prodromal to the future application of special public security surveillance.
«There are subjects who, citing bizarre reasons and absolutely without any legal basis, believe they can evade the Laws that the State in which they live has democratically adopted to manage civil coexistence in a peaceful manner, with equal rights and equal duties for all citizens – highlighted Commissioner Sartori –. Well, such anti-legal attitudes cannot be tolerated, and for this reason they must be sanctioned in the most firm manner. It is unacceptable that a person should feel above the law and claim the right to decide whether to respect it or not.”
2024-10-02 00:53:34