PADUA – Since the beginning of the year they have been 45 i minors who have committed a crime. The latest in chronological order was a 17-year-old of Tunisian origin arrested for drug dealing.
«Dat the beginning of the year there were already 45 minor offenders identified by the police, mostly involved in drug dealing – highlights the police commissioner of Padua, Marco Odorisio – 20 of them are unaccompanied foreign minors, another 16 second generation foreigners. Of greater concern is the data linked not only to the increase in the number of children involved, increasing compared to the same period of the previous year, already reaching more than double the total, but above all the number of under-14 year olds, 13 against only 2 of the the same period as the previous year. The commitment of the police officers continues, both in the field of prevention and in the field of prevention, surveillance and control of the territory to curb this phenomenon, which the specific activities in the judicial field».
The arrest for drug dealing
The arrested 17-year-old arrived at the beginning of the year and left the reception facility in Trapani, losing track of him. The young man was tracked down in Selvazzano last May: he had a few grams of hashish and was entrusted to a community. Yesterday afternoon, June 18, the policemen of the Flying Squad saw him in via Ceron, in a green area. A 57-year-old approached the boy who had hidden something in a bush shortly before. But before the man even reached him, with the money ready to be delivered to him, the 17-year-old realized he was being watched and the officers stopped both of them. The policemen recovered 20 doses of cocaine for approximately 15 grams: The 57-year-old admitted to buying drugs from the boy several times.
The 17-year-old was arrested and taken to the first reception center in Treviso. A 22-year-old checked in via Ceron was also arrested, also with a history of drug dealing. He was not directly involved in the minor’s activity but had no documents and was wanted. The expulsion procedure has been reactivated against him.
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