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A Moroccan national, who has been irregularly living in Italy, has allegedly pretended to have the novel coronavirus to avoid expulsion, local newspaper Corriere Romagna reports.
Police in Forli, a city in Italy’s northern Emilia-Romagna region, accompanied, Wednesday, a Moroccan to the Brunelleschi repatriation center in Turin to proceed with his expulsion from the country.
The 26-year-old, who arrived in Italy in 2016 on a work visa, stayed in the country after his permit expired. He was sentenced to two years and eight months in prison on December 30, 2017 for drug trafficking.
Placed under house arrest at the end of his sentence, he had been the subject of an expulsion decree and was to be detained in a repatriation center in Turin, pending his expulsion.
Once there, the young man pretended that he had been infected by the virus. However, he tested negative for the virus. The same source indicates that he took pills to increase his body temperature and fake the fact infection.
