The State Police of Trieste, arrested a Macedonian, and subjected the Kosovar citizen and the Macedonian citizen to suspect of crime, as they were held responsible, in concurrence with each other and with other subjects in the process of identification, of the crimes of aggravated aiding and abetting the illegal immigration of 8 Bengali minors.
During the investigative activities, carried out to combat illegal immigration, the mobile team had identified a Volkswagen Passat with an Italian plate and a Fiat Ducato with a Slovenian plate, which could have been used for an imminent transport of migrants.
The vehicles were therefore continuously monitored by investigators when, in the city center, a suspicious exchange of vehicles was observed between the users of the aforementioned Passat and those of a Ford Focus on the occasion that arose. Both cars then reached a square near Opicina where the van was parked.
The subsequent confidential observation activity made it possible to detect how in the afternoon of the same day 3 March the Duchy left the national territory to go to the nearby Republic of Slovenia followed by the Passat.
After about five hours, this last car returned to Italy through the Monrupino pass, followed a few minutes by the Duchy.
Considering, therefore, that the van - anticipated by the "relay" of the Passat with the task of reporting in time the presence of FF.OO. along the way - could carry illegal immigrants, it was decided to carry out a targeted check.
The policemen managed to block the Passat while the driver of the van ran away, taking the provincial road at very high speed towards the town of COL; the pursuit continued until the passeur, always at high speed, took a private road leading to a villa located in Monrupino where he definitively stopped his race going to impact against a palm tree in the garden.
At the same time the driver, having abandoned the vehicle, disappeared on foot in the nearby wooded area making him lose his tracks.
Inside the van there were n. 8 boys from Bangladesh, all minors, who paid for the illegal trip figures between 1600 and 1800 €. The young migrants were then taken to the local children's hospital to undergo the necessary investigations, the outcome of which six of them were discharged with a prognosis of a few days for the bruises reported and entrusted to a shelter for minors, while the the remaining two were kept for observation due to violent trauma and fractures.
A little later, the Ford Focus was traced, on board of which the two who had supplied the Passat used to relay the load of migrants were identified.
On the basis of the evidence acquired, the Macedonian was arrested for the crime of aiding and abetting illegal immigration in competition while the others were subjected to arrest as a suspect.
One of the two arrested was also arrested for the crime of possession of a false identification document having the availability of a counterfeit Croatian identity card.