hotel in southern Rimini closed for a month • newsrimini.it

The Rimini State Police closed for a month an accommodation facility in the south of Rimini deemed dangerous for public order and safety (in application of article 100 of the TULPS). The facts date back to the evening of 19 April when a Carabinieri patrol, a patrol car and personnel from the Administrative Police Team of the Police Headquarters had to intervene urgently at the hotel due to a furious argument between several people, which ended with one of them being injured with a cutting weapon. The episode triggered a series of checks and investigations from which a picture of strong deterioration emerged as early as the end of 2023. In particular, in the structure, it was standard practice host people with criminal convictions without communicating the data to the Police Headquarters, so much so that the owner was referred at the end of last year by the Local Police and again in April of this year by the Administrative Police of the Police Headquarters. On both occasions there were several police-biased people present in the hotel. Furthermore, between the end of 2023 and the beginning of 2024, the hotelier had provided accommodation in the structure to numerous people arrested in the same period for drug dealing, property crimes and violation of immigration regulations. A total of six were arrested and three were reported to have been released. There were also numerous interventions by the Police for annoying guests and more. Last March, for example, a woman was reported for throwing objects into the street from a hotel window with clear danger to passers-by. A series of elements that led the Police Commissioner to adopt the provision of suspension of the license also to counteract the consolidation of the situation and deprive individuals engaged in illicit activities of their usual place of aggregation.