Penitentiary police seized 16 grams of hashish hidden in a freezer during an early-morning search of Pavilion B at Turin's district prison on 4 November 2026. No one was named as responsible, and officers also seized rudimentary knives and fruit believed to be for making alcohol.
🇮🇹 Padiglione B, Casa circondariale di Torino, Turin · Italy
Cannabis
16 g
Penitentiary police found 16 grams of hashish hidden in a freezer during an
extraordinary search at the Turin district prison early on 4 November 2026.[1]The search took place at about 5:30 a.m. on the first floor of Pavilion B of the
Casa circondariale di Torino, the city’s district prison.[1]Officers found
the hashish inside a freezer in a shared room used by detainees, where a total
of 16 grams had been concealed.[1]
In the same space officers also found rudimentary weapons, including knives.[1]Officers also found a substantial quantity of fruit that initial
assessments said may have been intended for maceration to produce alcohol.[1]The seizure was announced by Donato Capece, general secretary of the autonomous
penitentiary-police union, and Vicente Santilli, the union’s secretary for
Piedmont.[1]Capece and Santilli praised the officers’ work and said attention
to security in prisons must stay high.[1]Investigators started inquiries to
reconstruct the circumstances of the find, identify those responsible and verify
the destination of the seized material.[1]
No arrest, charge or disciplinary outcome was reported; the responsible persons had not been identified and inquiries were still under way.
No count was published for the rudimentary weapons or knives.
No quantity was published for the fruit intended for maceration.
Only one accessible source for this event was found after searching in Italian, so no second account could be added.
No photo could be established to show this seizure: the supplied thumbnail belongs to an unrelated demolition video and the header image has no caption or credit tying it to the seized material, so no media entry is included.
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