In intensified checks in Bolzano, the State Police identified more than 500 people and checked 80 vehicles within three days.[1][2] The State Police were joined in the operation by the Carabinieri, the finance police with drug-sniffing dogs and the municipal police.[1] A total of 15 people were reported to the judicial authorities for various offences.[1][2]
Along the Eisackuferstrasse on the left side of the river, officers seized 40.49 grams of hashish, 2.47 grams of marijuana and 1.60 grams of ecstasy.[1] The drugs could initially not be attributed to any person.[1] According to the police headquarters, the drugs on the left bank of the Eisack were found with the help of the finance police dog unit and seized from persons unknown.[3][2] A drug-sniffing dog found the hashish, marijuana and ecstasy on the left bank of the Eisackuferstrasse.[4]
Nine foreign nationals were reported for violating residence bans imposed on them.[1] Three further people were reported for possessing weapons or dangerous objects.[1] One of the people checked had ridden an e-bike at high speed through a pedestrian zone and resisted the subsequent check.[1] During the check he tried to throw away a packet of suspected cocaine.[1] Two Moroccan nationals aged 36 and 19 had been caught stealing goods in a supermarket in the city centre.[1] A 26-year-old was reported for the attempted theft of clothing in a shopping centre in the industrial zone.[1]
