A quiet evening in Jesolo (Venice) turns into a news episode. A woman re-enters her home and discovers on the living room sofa a man intent on sleeping. The man, a 30-year-old man, allegedly broke in by forcing a window while the owner was absent.
Upon waking up, the man allegedly downplayed the incident: “I just wanted to rest,” he said, further claiming that the front door was open. A version immediately denied by local police, who confirmed that the window was forced to break into the home.
Local police went to the scene and identified the 30-year-old man. During a personal search, officers found some wrappers containing narcotics, also raising doubts about hypotheses of Venetian drug dealing
At the validation hearing before Judge Giulia Cauccia, the 30-year-old was formally arrested on charges of trespassing and possession of drugs for non-personal use.
However, no precautionary measures were ordered: the man was released with an obligation to report periodically to the authorities, pending a trial set for a later date.
The investigation continues against the young man, who will have to answer in court for forcible entry into the home and possession of the substances. His defense will be able to leverage the argument of alleged unintentional intrusion-motivated by the claim that he “just wanted to rest”-but the evidence gathered so far, including signs of burglary, will make this line of defense complicated.
To sum up: what seemed like a bizarre gesture resulted in a misdemeanor arrest. The court will have to assess whether this was merely an episodic anomaly or whether it conceals a deliberate attempt to exploit the purchase and possession of drugs.
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