Three immigrants who arrived on
the Swedish vessel Poseidon on Tuesday were arrested by police
on Wednesday following checks that revealed two of them had
previous Italian incarceration orders and one had previously
been expelled from Italy.
The immigrants had been rescued off the coast of Libya in a
Triton operation and brought to the port of Taranto on Tuesday
along with 608 others.
A 39-year-old Algerian had been ordered to serve 4 months
in prison by the appeals court in Torino for violence and
threatening a public official in 2006.
A 38-year-old man from Morocco had been ordered to serve 7
years in prison by the appeals court in Lucca for drug dealing
that took place in 2004.
Immigration officials also identified a 33-year-old
Moroccan with false documents who had been issued an expulsion
order in lieu of prison time and had been forbidden from
returning to Italy until 2022.
Authorities reinstated his detention order.
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