Carabinieri from the Radiomobile Section of the operational and mobile unit (N.O.R.) in Vicenza reported a 31-year-old Gambian man who had no fixed address and previous drug-related police records, accusing him of unlawful possession of drugs for sale and of breaching a residence ban.[1] The officers reached the room the man occupied in the late morning, after monitoring him, and found him trying to hide a packet in his jacket pocket.[1]

A personal search, extended to the room, led to the criminal seizure of two packets containing marijuana weighing a total of about 40 grams.[1] The checks confirmed that the man, already the subject of an oral warning (avviso orale, a police warning issued to a person considered socially dangerous), was in the municipality of Vicenza in breach of a residence ban imposed on him.[1] The man was reported at liberty rather than arrested, and the Carabinieri informed the judicial authority, which will decide on the accusations.[2] Tviweb reported that the operation was carried out on the late morning of Friday 6 November as part of territory checks aimed at drug dealing and at compliance with judicial orders.[2]

The accounts come from a press release by the provincial Carabinieri command in Vicenza, which recalled that, under the presumption of innocence, the man’s guilt will be established only by a final conviction.[1]