Tourist mistaken for wanted fugitive spends nearly a month in Italian prison: "The nightmare is over" | NYGazet

The tourist found out he shares a name with a wanted criminal, previously sentenced to two years in prison in Italy for aggravated theft.

A Romanian tourist spent nearly a month in prison after police mistook him for a wanted criminal on the first day of his holiday in Italy, his lawyer said on Friday. "The nightmare is over," Ovidiu A. said as he left Pordenone prison in northern Ital... [1350 chars]