A Romanian vacationer spent almost a month in jail after police mistook him for a needed legal on the primary day of his vacation in Italy, his lawyer stated on Friday.
“The nightmare is over,” Ovidiu A. stated as he left Pordenone jail in northern Italy on Thursday, native newspaper Corriere del Veneto reported.
“He was lastly capable of reunite together with his household,” who had been ready for him since August 24, the day of his arrest, his lawyer Stefano De Rosa instructed AFP.
Initially from Iasi, Romania, Ovidiu A. had come to spend a couple of days together with his household in Caorle, close to Venice.
He would quickly discover out he shares a reputation with a needed Romanian legal, beforehand sentenced to 2 years in jail in Italy for aggravated theft.
The identify, registered on the lodge upon arrival, triggered an alert, and the vacationer was arrested by the carabinieri at his first breakfast.
His lawyer defined he had struggled to collect proof proving it was a case of mistaken id, because the preliminary trial for aggravated theft dated again to 2014 and the ultimate sentencing to 2020.
“The pc techniques of the police, jail, court docket and carabinieri don’t talk with one another. I needed to request documentation from every workplace,” he stated.
In accordance with Corriere del Veneto, the vacationer and his household are anticipated to proceed their vacation in Italy for a couple of extra days earlier than returning to Romania.
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He “has determined to take pleasure in at the least a couple of days on the seaside , which had been his objective,” the newspaper reported.
“The injury was huge, however he confronted it with nice dignity and calm ,” his lawyer instructed Corriere del Veneto.
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