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Italian police intensify checks and border ops

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Italian police, finance guard, migrant police intensify checks and border ops persist

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, intensified actions against irregular migrants, and imposed mandatory expulsion orders on repeat offenders irregular migrants in Sondrio and Treviso. On 13 July the Prefect of Trapani Treviso, and the Extraordinary Commissioner of the ASP added an addendum to speed up accelerate eligibility assessments for detainees in at the Centre for Permanent Residence, focusing on drug‑addiction and mental‑health vulnerability, and a court in Catanzaro transferred an international‑protection claimant to the CPR in Potenza under the EU Migration and Asylum Screening Regulation. Residence. Carabinieri road checks on 19 July in Verbano‑Cusio‑Ossola seized drugs and knives; the same day a motorcyclist died in a collision near Baveno. Further Carabinieri further inspections in Portomaggiore on 15 July denounced targeted folding‑knife carriers and small‑scale drug possession, and imposed a €500 fine for unauthorized forest cutting. forest‑cutting fine. On 24 July the State Police announced reinforced staffing reinforcements, adding 11 agents to the in Macerata questura and eight to Forlì‑Cesena, while also placing Forlì‑Cesena and placed officers in immigration offices. Joint police‑finance‑local patrols seized cocaine in Città di Castello and recorded venue violations. The questura in Castello; the Ascoli Piceno ordered the expulsion of questura expelled an Albanian national and detained a Russian and a Tunisian for irregular status. Tunisian. In Genoa three Peruvian men were arrested for a fake‑mechanic fraud and weapons charges, and in the Cremona‑Crema area police issued seven removal orders following disturbances in public squares. These actions underscore a continued, multi‑agency emphasis on public order, immigration control and contraband suppression across Italy. 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.

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  1. 2026-07-29 16:52 UTC Italian police intensify checks and border ops
  2. 2026-07-28 15:37 UTC Italian police, finance guard, migrant ops persist
  3. 2026-07-28 12:56 UTC Italian police, finance guard, migrant enforcement persist
  4. 2026-07-25 22:37 UTC Italian police, finance guard, migrant enforcement persist

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