Two Tunisian citizens were arrested in flagrante delicto by the State Police for drug dealing near the Rivazzurra seafront in Rimini.
The activity, developed following the info-investigative acquisitions of the Flying Squad, is the result of the implementation of controls and monitoring of widespread crime phenomena in the city area and, in particular, on the seafront, to avoid the resurgence of criminal phenomena in the summertime.
Specifically, in fact, the Flying Squad acquired well-founded investigative information on two subjects, who managed on the Rivazzurra seafront in Rimini a market selling hashish and heroin.
The first, in fact, chose a playground on the seafront as a point of reference, with the risk of the possible presence of numerous minors, while the second was stationed on the shoreline, waiting for customers along the beach.
On both occasions, the Flying Squad operators saw the customers approach and carry out an exchange with the typical modus operandi of street dealing activities and, consequently, they stopped the buyers to certify the illicit activity.
In the first case, the buyer was a minor, who had purchased some doses of hashish from the Tunisian citizen, who, immediately stopped by the police, was accompanied to the police station, where, following a personal search, they were found and seized, in total, approximately 40 grams of hashish and the money resulting from the transfer.
The man was arrested and taken to the Rimini penitentiary institute, at the disposal of the prosecuting judicial authority, which validated the arrest and ordered the precautionary measure of custody in prison.
In the second episode, however, after witnessing the transfer, the police attempted to stop the other Tunisian citizen, who, however, began to run away along the beach to try to cover his tracks.
In the meantime, a plainclothes Carabinieri patrol from the Rimini Company was passing through the scene and, noticing the fleeing man, started chasing him with the Flying Squad operators, managing to reach him and block him. Furthermore, while he was running away, the operators noticed that the man had tried to get rid of a cellophane wrapper, throwing it on the sand, but in an unsuccessful manner, so much so that it was immediately recovered and, inside, around 30 grams were found of heroin.
Furthermore, 400 euros were also seized from the man, believed to be the result of drug dealing activity on the Rivazzurra coast.
THE two foreigners they were accordingly arrested for the crime of drug dealing and made available to the proceeding judicial authority.
