Naples: Two wanted men arrested on European warrant

Naples – As Christmas Eve prepares to turn on the lights throughout the city, the State Police have executed two provisional arrest warrants for the purpose of surrender, targeting two foreign men wanted in Europe for crimes of varying nature and seriousness.

On the evening of Monday, December 22, officers from the Naples Flying Squad, in collaboration with the Pompeii Police Station, identified and arrested a 54-year-old Romanian citizen.

The man, who had been living in the Naples area for years, was the subject of a European Arrest Warrant issued by Romanian judicial authorities in 2020 for aggravated tax evasion.

After the usual formalities, he was taken to the Poggioreale prison pending handover to the Romanian authorities. On the morning of Tuesday, December 23, the Flying Squad began operations in the municipality of Calvizzano, in the northern area of ​​Naples.

Here, a 35-year-old Nigerian man was tracked down and arrested. He was the subject of a European Arrest Warrant issued by the German authorities for exceptionally serious crimes: sexual exploitation of minors and production and possession of child pornography.

Both arrests took place under the provisional arrest formula with a view to subsequent extradition (or surrender, according to the terminology of the European Arrest Warrant), a procedure which in the coming weeks will see the intervention of the Court of Appeal of Naples for the validation and authorization of the surrender of the two men to the respective requesting countries.

Two cases, distinct in terms of the type of crime, but united by their choice of the Neapolitan area as a refuge, at least temporarily, to escape the justice of their respective countries. A Christmas that, for them, turned into a rude awakening behind bars.