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Italian police intensify checks and border ops

Entities: French Police (Police Nationale) · Polizia di Stato · Ventimiglia · Slovenian frontier

Overview

Since early June 2026 Italian police, the Guardia di Finanza and the Carabinieri have intensified raids, vehicle checks and venue inspections nationwide, seizing drugs, firearms and cash while issuing traffic fines. In July they disrupted a machete‑armed gang in Livorno, imposed mandatory expulsion orders on repeat irregular migrants in Sondrio and Treviso, and added an addendum to accelerate eligibility assessments for detainees at the Centre for Permanent Residence. Carabinieri road checks on 19 July in Verbano‑Cusio‑Ossola seized drugs and knives; further inspections in Portomaggiore on 15 July targeted folding‑knife carriers and small‑scale drug possession, and imposed a €500 forest‑cutting fine. On 24 July the State Police reinforced staffing in Macerata and Forlì‑Cesena and placed officers in immigration offices. Joint patrols seized cocaine in Città di Castello; the Ascoli Piceno questura expelled an Albanian national and detained a Russian and a Tunisian. In Genoa three Peruvian men were arrested for fraud and weapons charges, and in the Cremona‑Crema area seven removal orders followed public‑square disturbances. On 28 July police launched high‑impact checks in Bari and Siracusa provinces.

The same day high‑impact operations expanded to Bari, Noto, Genoa, Parma (Salsomaggiore Terme) and Terlizzi, inspecting over 500 people and 300 vehicles, issuing dozens of traffic‑violation reports, withdrawing three licences and seizing small hashish quantities. On 29 July border controls on the Slovenian frontier and at Ventimiglia inspected 25 830 individuals and 4 622 vehicles, identified more than 4 500 irregular migrants, arrested 128 people for facilitating illegal entry and turned back 750 migrants, with 92 voluntary repatriations. These actions illustrate a sustained, multi‑agency focus on public order, traffic safety, drug interdiction and immigration control across Italy.

Timeline

  1. 3 days ago

    [CRIME] 3 sources
    Italian police ramp up border checks at Slovenia and Ventimiglia

    Italian police saw 193 arrests and identified thousands of irregular migrants during intensified border checks on the Slovenian frontier and at Ventimiglia, with French cooperation and dozens of repatriations.

  2. 18 days ago

    [CRIME] 5 sources
    Italian police impose mandatory expulsion orders on repeat offenders in Sondrio and Treviso

    Italian police handed mandatory expulsion orders to a repeat‑offender in Sondrio and an 18‑year‑old Tunisian in Treviso after theft attempts, pepper‑spray attacks and aggression toward journalists.

  3. 19 days ago

    [POLITICS] 2 sources
    Italian officials tighten migrant oversight in Trapani and court ruling reshapes residence permit rules

    Italian officials updated the Trapani migrant protocol to better assess detainees, while a Constitutional Court ruling ends automatic bans on residence‑permit renewals for drug‑convicted foreigners.

  4. 19 days ago

    [POLITICS] 3 sources
    Italy intensifies migrant detention enforcement and health screening at CPR facilities

    Italy upheld an asylum denial and transferred the applicant to Potenza CPR, while Trapani authorities added health‑screening protocols to the Milo CPR for mental‑health and addiction risks.

  5. 26 days ago

    [POLITICS] 2 sources
    Italy's State Police Execute Three Irregular Immigration Deportations

    Italy's State Police deported three irregular migrants, bringing total enforcement actions to 51 since the year's start in Piedmont.

  6. about 1 month ago

    [CRIME] 75 sources
    Italian Carabinieri intensify nationwide controls, seize drugs and detain migrants

    Carabinieri across Italy carried out intensified checks, seizing drugs, arresting migrants, and cracking gender‑violence and robbery cases in dozens of towns.

  7. about 1 month ago

    [CRIME] 3 sources
    Italian police raids in Anzio and Lecce lead to multiple arrests and weapon seizures

    Carabinieri in Anzio/Lavinio and police in Lecce carried out large checks, identifying thousands, arresting several suspects, seizing a pistol and drugs, and issuing fines.

  8. about 1 month ago

    [CRIME] 4 sources
    Catanzaro Police Repatriate Foreign National with Criminal Record

    Catanzaro police deported a foreign national convicted of false ID fraud after judicial approval, escorting him from Rome airport to his home country.

  9. about 2 months ago

    [CRIME] 5 sources
    Italian police raids result in arrests for fraud and weapons offenses

    Italian police arrested a fraud‑convicted woman in Pescara and detained a foreign drug suspect, while Carabinieri seized ammunition in Sila and enforced a prison sentence on a Cotronei man.

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