SAN CANDIDO. Another tense episode South Tyrolean public transport. It happened a few days ago: a an Austrian citizen without a ticket thought it best to take it out on the public transport workers on bus number 446 with the San Candido-Sesto route. Altered, she began to insult and utter threatening and insulting sentences towards them: at that point the staff asked for the intervention of the police to prevent the situation from escalating. At that point the man, an Austrian citizen, was stopped by the military, identified and then immediately handed over in a state of freedom to the competent judicial authority for threat to a public officialgiven that in the specific case controllers and sector employees carry out the functions of persons in charge of a public service, a circumstance for which article 336 of the current criminal code can be applied.
This operation by the Carabinieri is within the vast control operations on public transport undertaken in the province of Bolzano: also in Val Pusteria the soldiers of the San Candido company are carrying out targeted coordinated control services near railway stations and also on board trains in transit in the relevant territory. In fact, with the arrival of good weather and the tourist season, there are many users of these services among residents and tourists who choose the public transport and trains to move between the valleys of the province from one town to another. “Numerous checks were carried out – reports the major Simone Carlinicommander of the San Candido company – which are not aimed at replacing the work of inspectors and employees, but which have the aim of spread safety among citizens and provide any support to sector operators in case of necessity”.
