BOLZANO. The Financial Police of the economic and financial police unit a foreign citizen arrested, found in possession of drugs inside the Bolzano train station. Upon identification, the man, waiting to board a regional train, said he did not have the documents with him, limiting himself to showing the financiers a photo of a passport on his mobile phone and he justified himself by saying that he had forgotten them at homebecause he left his home in a hurry, located in another municipality in the province, to attend to an urgent errand in the city.
The Fiamme Gialle understood what kind of commission it was after the first checks on the identity of the young man, who was known to the police for drug crimes, a reason which led the military to more accurate control at the offices in via Claudia Augustawhere the twenty-year-old spontaneously handed over a package containing 260 grams of narcotic which, following the usual analyses, turned out to be cocaine.
The foreigner – against whom the presumption of innocence applies until the issuing of the sentence or any criminal decree of conviction – has been arrested and taken to the local prisonavailable to the Judicial Authority. According to a hypothesis that will be subject to verification in the next few hours, the seized drugs – purchased in the capital – would have been destined to supply a drug dealer in the province, to cope with the surge in demand coinciding with the end-of-year celebrations .