BOLZANO. The men of the forces are used to facing the most disparate situations without batting an eyelid. Sometimes, however, things happen that surprise and worry even those who are used to seeing all sorts of things every day. What happened on Tuesday evening, in Viale Druso, undoubtedly falls into this type of case. The control carried out during one of the many anti-drug operations by the Flying Squad personnel, in fact, led to the seizure of a significant quantity of narcotics, found on the car and at the home of a forty-one year old from South Tyrol with no criminal record – the initials GK -, resident in Caldaro and – the disconcerting news is this – teacher in a technical institute in the capital.
It all started when the officers stopped her on the long city avenue, the woman immediately appeared agitated and impatient. If we add that the typical scent of a particular narcotic substance came out of the passenger compartment of the car, all that was needed to convince the police to deepen the check and request the immediate intervention of the investigators
of the Narcotics Section of the Flying Squad. Taken to the police station, the woman was searched and, obviously, her car was also carefully inspected.
And right in the car, hidden under the front passenger seat, they found a wrapper with over 100 grams of cocaine. Another gram of the same substance was kept in a jar. At that point, the mobile investigators, supported by the soldiers of the Egna Company, commanded by the captain Federico Serracinithey also decided to search the house where the woman lives, in Caldaro. There, inside a safe hidden in a storage room, 20 grams of cocaine, several doses of heroin, 10 grams of ecstasy, two ounces of hashish, one ounce of marijuana, a precision scale with
drug residues and approximately 500 euros in cash, probable proceeds from drug dealing activities. A real bazaar, in short.
Once the judicial police actions were completed, the woman was arrested and transferred to the women’s section of the Spini di Gardolo prison in Trento, at the disposal of the Bolzano prosecutor’s office. Given the seriousness of what happened, the police commissioner of Bolzano, Paolo Sartoriissued the personal prevention measure of the mandatory leave sheet against the woman, with a simultaneous ban on her return to the Municipality of Bolzano for the next three years. «The operational result of this investigation, which is incredible if you consider that the person arrested on such a serious charge plays the role of educator in a high school, is nothing other than further confirmation of how the dealing of narcotic substances represents a particularly serious crime not only for the effects that it produces in itself on those who consume drugs, but also for the context in which it finds fertile ground for its diffusion and for the criminal activities that generate, in terms of degradation, petty crime and consequences on public order and safety – underlined Sartori –. For this reason, prevention and combating its spread represent absolute priorities for the police forces, committed daily to guaranteeing the safety of citizens.”
The Education Councilor
He intervenes on the episode and the arrest of the teacher Marco Galateoprovincial councilor for Italian education and culture: «It is a very serious fact, which convinces us of the need to strengthen attention also on the profiles of teachers and educators who enter school, given their very important role in society. Having said this – he concludes -, I can say that I don’t think she is a teacher in Italian schools”