On 09/30/2024 in Siderno near Corso della Repubblica, following alert lodgedpolice personnel from the Siderno police station arrested a 30-year-old Albanian, wanted on a warrant from his country of origin, intent on leaving the accommodation facility where he had spent the night. The Albanian citizen, with a backpack and trolley, at the sight of the officers tried to disappear on foot through the streets of the town center to evade control and flee but the officers, after a short chase, managed to stop him safely .
After having verified, with certainty, his identity, through the databases, it was found that the thirty-year-old had an international arrest warrant pending within INTERPOL for the crimes of tax evasion, theft, fraud and falsification of documentsissued by the Albanian judicial authority.
Once the ritual procedures were completed, the requested person was placed in the prison of Locri, at the disposal of the competent judicial authority.
The arrest was validated on 2.10.2024 by the Court of Appeal of Reggio Calabria which simultaneously applied precautionary custody in prison in order to allow the Albanian authorities to initiate the procedures necessary for the subsequent passive extradition.