14h36: In confined Italy, buying cigarettes is prohibited
Going to buy cigarettes or seeking the services of a prostitute is not enough to justify a night out in Italy, where the coronavirus killed more than 600 people, learned at their expense from verbalized offenders. A 33-year-old man was caught at night in Turin (Piedmont, north) walking around and “the man, who seemed very embarrassed, later admitted to the police that he was looking for ‘a prostitute’, according to the AGI agency.
Another, a 40-year-old unemployed man, was intercepted at 4 am in his car by carabinieri to whom he assured that he was going out to buy cigarettes, but since he was outside his commune of residence , the excuse did not work, the same source said.
The Italian government has banned all travel that is not strictly related to work or health reasons in an attempt to stem the coronavirus epidemic. The first sanctions fell on Tuesday with the verbalization of 48 people who participated in a funeral procession in Sicily, also contravening the provisions of the government.
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