NAPLES: summer movida, dress rehearsal for Ferragosto. Carabinieri checks in the city, the toll is between armed minors, drugs and illegal parking attendants
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The checks were concentrated mainly in the Centro Storico, Posillipo and Vomero neighborhoods with tens of thousands of people on the streets, hundreds of open venues and 3 Carabinieri companies always at work.
Also this night, "from dusk till dawn", the attention of the military was focused on traffic, but also on drug dealing, from arms trafficking to the phenomenon of illegal parking attendants.
A total of 16 reports at liberty, 1 arrest, 58 traffic violations, 110 kilos of food seized and 17 administrative sanctions also for possession of narcotics.
The Carabinieri of the local company arrested a 40-year-old from the Spanish Quarters who was already under house arrest.
During a search of his home, 25 sticks of hashish ready for sale and packaging material were seized.
A 16-year-old will have to answer for illegal possession of a knife. In his pocket a 12-centimeter blade.
5 illegal parking attendants reported in the Spanish Quarters
5 illegal parking attendants identified and reported, all operating between Piazza Matteotti and via Monteoliveto.
Maximum attention also to Vomero where the carabinieri reported two prisoners for escaping from house arrest.
A 51-year-old was caught while giving a customer a 4-gram stick of hashish. He was reported for drug dealing.
Minor in Vomero found with telescopic baton
Here too, a minor got into trouble. Along Via Scarlatti, just 17 years old, he was brandishing a telescopic stick of about 56 centimeters. He justified himself to the military by saying that he had bought it online and had brought it with him to show it to his friends.
A 21-year-old will be charged with aggravated theft for stealing clothes and various objects from a boutique on Via Scarlatti.
Between Posillipo and Mergellina, the nightlife is always alive. The carabinieri of the Bagnoli company are in the field.
Untraceable food seized between Posillipo and Mergellina
3 young people found driving without a license, reported. Parking attendants here too, distributed along via Petrarca and the first portion of the seafront, in front of the Sebeto fountain.
4 premises checked, 30 kilos of food seized because it was untraceable.
3 street food vendors were fined. In this case, 80 kilos were stolen from sale because of poor hygiene conditions.
58 fines were notified for violations of the highway code. Most of these were located in Piazza Dante and were issued to motorcyclists without helmets, riding scooters in a pedestrian area.
Article published on 10 August 2024 - 10:29