The policemen of the Crotone Police Headquarters and the soldiers of the Naval Operations Section of the Guardia di Finanza of Crotone have SOp will beat two Iraqi scafists in the stop of PG and arrested a subject already recipient of rejection from the national territory in the act of crime.
The investigations prolonged relentlessly from the landing on 10 jumpers 2025 when they were escorted by the Port Authority to the port of Crotone 66 migrants. These, rescued by health personnel, were immediately conducted by the staff of the Crotone police headquarters at the Regional Hub of Isola Capo Rizzuto for identification activities.
The articulated activity, conducted by the staff of the Mobile Squad of the Crotone Police Headquarters and by the financiers Naval Operational Section of the Guardia di Finanza, with the coordination of the Public Prosecutor’s Office of Crotone, led by the Prosecutor Domenico Guarascioaimed at identifying the subjects responsible for transfers from Turkey to the Calabrian coasts, aimed both to reconstruct the phases of the process used by the smugglers in foreign territory, and the methods of crossing and landing on the Italian coasts.
The attention of the investigators focused in particular on the analysis of cell phones recovered among migrants, discovering multimedia content of significant investigative interest within them.
In particular, in one of the phones analyzed there was a photograph that portrayed the same boat used for the transbord of the subjects taken in the months preceding the landing.
Subsequently, having collected test elements against them, the investigative assumption was supported by the testimonies of some migrants who confirmed the identity of the smugglers such as those who had conducted the boat during the journey from Turkey.
Therefore, the two smugglers of Turkish nationality proceeded, who in the early stages of the landing had tried to conceal their real identities, who were associated with the local district house and placed available to the Public Prosecutor’s Office at the Court of Crotone.
Furthermore, during the investigative activities it emerged that One of the migrants of Iraqi nationality had already made illegally entry into the state in 2023 and not having the requirements to remain on the national territory had been the recipient of the rejection of the frontier issued by the Quaestor of Crotone with a ban on returning without authorization before three years.
At the end of the appropriate investigations, the policemen verified that the migrant was not in possession of the authorization requested for re -entry and therefore arrested him.
Today’s arrests testify to the attention of the police forces against the phenomenon of illegal immigration and the utmost attention of the authorities on the landings of migrants who often occur on the coasts of the Pythagorean province.
