Parma: two foreign nationals arrested on execution of detention orders
During the State Police "Parma Sicura" operation, two foreign nationals were arrested. During the same period, over one thousand persons were identified and seven foreign nationals were reported.
Police operation in the Emilia capital
The State Police of Parma executed two detention orders against foreign nationals as part of the "O.P.S. – Operazione Parma Sicura" operation, which took place between 18 and 24 October 2026. According to reports from parmadaily.it, during the same period officers identified over 1,000 persons, almost 400 of foreign nationality, checked 145 vehicles and 8 commercial premises.
On the evening of 19 October, the Flying Squad intervened at a pizzeria on via Abbeveratoia following reports of a drunken man. Officers traced a 25-year-old Pakistani national with a detention order for a sentence of 3 years, 2 months and 7 days imprisonment, relating to two robberies committed in Milan. The young man was taken to prison.
On the afternoon of 20 October, officers stopped a vehicle with a Polish registration plate on strada Mazzini. Against the passenger, a 47-year-old Romanian woman, a detention order issued in 2023 was on file. The woman must serve 7 months imprisonment for a theft committed in Reggio Emilia and was taken to prison at the conclusion of administrative procedures.
In the course of the same operation, seven foreign nationals were reported for various offences: receiving stolen goods, carrying weapons or objects intended to cause injury, resistance to a police officer, driving whilst under the influence of alcohol and failure to report persons accommodated. On the evening of 21 October, a 38-year-old Somali national was reported for resistance to a police officer after harassing customers at an Aldi supermarket in the San Leonardo district. The man, who had a record for offences against property and against public trust, simulated the gesture of throwing a beer can at the police officers, shouting and hurling abuse at them before being restrained. Once taken to the Police Headquarters, he continued with hostile behaviour, spitting towards the officers.
The Prefect of Police of Parma additionally ordered extraordinary territory control services on 20 and 23 October, with the support of the Crime Prevention Unit of Reggio Emilia, the drug detection dog unit of Bologna and Local Police. The controls concentrated on the city centre and the San Leonardo and Oltretorrente districts, with specific monitoring of school institutes. One hundred and twenty persons were identified, 77 of whom were foreign nationals, 12 vehicles were checked and 8 commercial premises.
In the same week, the Police Headquarters of Parma intensified activities to combat irregular immigration. A 32-year-old Gambian national, convicted in 2019 for attempted murder and with numerous previous convictions for offences against persons and property, was expelled on 19 October by the Immigration Office and accompanied to Bologna airport for repatriation to his country of origin.
Source: Google News IT — Crime (it)