Institutional portal - Municipality of Milan

Milan, June 7 2019 – When the local police officers entered the apartment in Via Nicola D'Apulia they found 17 men, all of Pakistani origin, in terrible hygienic conditions, sleeping in a one hundred square meter apartment with three bedrooms, living room and adjoining kitchen.

The owner of the property, H. A. a Pakistani citizen with Italian citizenship from 74, who was not present at the time of the intervention, was reported for exploitation of immigration.

The Real Estate Crime Unit of the local police, coordinated by commander Marco Ciacci, intervened in recent days to check the apartment in via D'Apulia after the report made by some citizens of an overcrowding situation.

Once the officers entered the three-room apartment, they found themselves faced with 23 beds, of which ten were makeshift beds made up of mattresses placed on the ground. The hygienic conditions were terrible and all the available spaces in the building were occupied by beds.

Three of the 17 people found inside were not in compliance with their residence documents on the national territory and were taken to the local police arrest and detention office to be identified and subsequently reported for violation of the provisions of the Consolidated Law on Immigration ( Legislative Decree no. 286/98).

The judicial authority will be informed of the intervention in order to obtain preventive seizure of the property, a preparatory activity for the subsequent confiscation of the apartment. The same owner, in addition to the complaint for exploitation of immigration, was fined 1.600 euros for failing to notify the Public Security Authority within 48 hours of the hospitality of foreign citizens.

“These situations – explained the deputy mayor Anna Scavuzzo – contribute to creating insecurity and degradation in the buildings. I thank the citizens and administrators who reported cases of overcrowding to the local police which allowed the officers to intervene for checks and verifications".