A Somali citizen was arrested in recent days at Elmas airport for being in possession of a false travel document . The woman was leaving for Dublin.
When she showed up at the border control she showed a regular refugee travel document and residence permit, issued by the Cypriot authorities. But the operators continued to monitor her even inside the international departures area and, while the woman was queuing for boarding, an operator saw a strange document sticking out of the side pocket of her bag .
It was amaranth in color, not blue like the travel documents of refugees. So the operators investigated further and it emerged that the document was a fake Dutch passport. The woman said she had received it from a boy whose personal details she did not know and that she wanted to go to Ireland to join her partner .
But the arrest was triggered for the counterfeit passport. The Somali citizen arrived in Italy on June 10 on a flight from Germany, in Cagliari on June 12. During the hearing the arrest was validated as well as the seizure of the passport . The judicial authority, in response to a request for a plea bargain of 10 months and 20 days, postponed the hearing to June 19.
(Unioneonline/L)
