Arrested on the first day of his Italian holidays by the riflers who confused him with a requested criminal, a Romanian tourist spent almost a month in prison before being released, his lawyer reported this Friday, September 19, cited by the Italian press, including the Corriere del Veneto.
“The nightmare is finished,” said Ovidiu A., a Romanian from the thirties, who leaves Pordenone prison on Thursday (northern Italy), says Corriere del Veneto. “Finally he was able to kiss his wife and daughters,” who had been waiting for him since August 24, the day of his arrest, welcomed his lawyer Stefano de Rosa.
Originally from Iasi, Romania, the tourist came to spend a few days of family vacations in Caorle, near Venice. But he had bad luck to carry the same name as another Romanian sentenced to two years in prison in Italy for an aggravated flight and wanted by the police.
An activated alert
The name, recorded at the hotel, caused an alert and the Carabiniers took it out of their first breakfast. The lawyer had to fight to recover the documents that proved that it was confusion, because the first aggravated flight trial dates back to 2014 and the final conviction in 2020, told AFP.
“Police computer systems, riflers, court and prison are not linked and I had to ask everyone to send me the documents,” he said. According to Il Corriere del Veneto, the tourist and his family should stay in Italy for a few days to resume their vacations before returning to Romania.
Source: BFM TV
