In northeastern Italy, 17 Kosovo Albanians, members of the gang specialized in stealing from tourists, were arrested, communicated the police in Trieste.

It is stated that the international arrest warrants exist for some of them.

Members of the gang mostly operated on the highways around Venice and Trieste, where they cut tires on cars of tourists at the parking lots, and then, pretending to want to help them, used the opportunity to rob them.