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Re: SECRET Chinese Police in The World-Italy Allows Chinese Police Stations
Italy Accused of Allowing Secret Chinese Police
Italy Accused of Turning a Blind Eye to Clandestine Chinese Police Stations
BBC News 11 DEC 2022.
Italy has been accused of turning a blind eye to secret Chinese “police stations” that have been set up in cities across the country allegedly to intimidate and harass Chinese migrant communities.
A report published this week by Safeguard Defenders, a human rights organisation, claimed that Beijing has established more than 100 offices in 53 countries as part of a global underground network designed to target Chinese dissidents living abroad.
Italy was reportedly used as a testing ground for the scheme and is said to be home to 11 “police stations” - the largest number in any one country - located in Milan, Rome, Sicily and elsewhere.
But while countries such as the UK, Germany, Spain, the US, Canada and New Zealand have announced national investigations into the claims, Italy’s interior minister instead attempted to brush off the concerns, saying police and intelligence services were “monitoring” the issue.
Questioned in Parliament on Wednesday, Matteo Piantedosi insisted only one credible “police station” had been discovered - in Prato, Florence - but that it had closed and “no longer appears to provide” the claimed services.
He added that investigations were “still in progress,” but that “there are currently no so-called service centres similar to the one in Prato in Rome, Florence, Bolzano.”
Mr Piantedosi said he would “not exclude” enforcing sanctions if any illegality was found.
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