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Italy Stops Joint Police Patrols With China After Reports of Covert Overseas Chinese Police Stations

Italy Stops Joint Police Patrols With China After Reports of Covert Overseas Chinese Police Stations
Italian Carabinieri and Chinese policemen patrol together in Milan in 2018. Emanuele Cremaschi/Getty
Alex Wu
12/20/2022|Updated: 12/22/2022
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The Italian interior minister said on Dec. 19 that Italy will stop allowing the Chinese communist regime’s police to take part in joint patrols with Italian police in its territory. The decision came after the Italian government was accused of turning a blind eye to covert overseas Chinese police “service stations” set up in its cities.

Italy signed a bilateral deal with the Chinese communist regime in 2015 to let Chinese police officers do joint patrols with Italian police in Rome, Milan, Naples, and other Italian cities.

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Alex Wu is a U.S.-based writer for The Epoch Times focusing on Chinese society, Chinese culture, human rights, and international relations.
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