A nightmare that lasted 24 hours, but in which he thought the worst. This is the misadventure of AC, a 44-year-old Romanian living in Rome, arrested on September 24 while he was at work and incarcerated in Regina Coeli prison. An international arrest warrant has been issued against him, likely due to reports Republic Rome which reconstructs the case, to an error in the Swiss AI system.
The arrest warrant from the canton of Ticino and the error
“My client – lawyer Manrico Pensa tells the newspaper – was accused of two thefts, including one in a jewelry store. One was committed on June 28 in Lugano, the other on July 5, 2024 in Ascona.” The regularly hired specialist mason was regularly at work that day. “We immediately tried to understand what was going on. was passed because the suspicion of a miscarriage of justice was strong Also because there was no link even with the alleged accomplice. It is for this reason that, unusually, I wrote on September 25 directly. to the public prosecutor's office of the canton of Ticino, also attaching the evidence proving the actual presence of my client in Rome at the workplace”, said the lawyer. After many minutes, the response from Swiss Attorney General Moreno Capella arrives: “I confirm that the arrest order has been revoked. Due to probable administrative confusion, the previous revocation decision of September 4 did not reach its correct destination. According to the Swiss public prosecutor's office, the man should therefore not have been arrested for at least twenty days. AC, however, found itself stuck in Regina Coeli, with the nightmare of imminent extradition According to Repubblica, late in the afternoon of September 25, the IV Chamber of the Court of Appeal of Rome, after having. received a note from the Public Security Department of the Ministry of the Interior, revoked the pre-trial detention in prison of the Romanian citizen, ordering the immediate release However, how he ended up behind bars remains a mystery. , there is a suspicion: according to the lawyer behind the error, there could be an error dictated by artificial intelligence which would have identified the 44-year-old man in the images from the video surveillance circuit. blame, while he, without knowing it, calmly and honestly carried out his work miles away.
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