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Rome08 December 2015 The Jubilee event has also activated the counterfeiters who on these extraordinary occasions are able to produce large quantities of products with counterfeit brands and do not comply with the safety standards imposed by national and European Union legislation.



The men of the Guardia di Finanza, with the operation renamed "Holy Door", have seized over 500 thousand pieces of gadgets, for a commercial value of over one million euros, which were ready to invade the streets of the capital in conjunction with the start of the Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy.



Three people of Chinese nationality were reported to the judicial authority for the crime of introducing into the state and trading products with false signs, and for violations of the Consumer Code.

The operation is part of the Jubilaeum action plan, prepared by the provincial command of Rome against the various forms of illegal activity and fraud that may target pilgrims and tourists during the jubilee year.



The financiers of the provincial command of Rome have discovered two deposits, full of gadgets, rosaries and sacred images, attributable to two businesses run by citizens of Chinese nationality, in the areas of Tor Cervara and San Basilio. 



The Yellow Flames have confiscated both the favorite gadgets of tourists, such as magnets, key rings and ashtrays, and products intended for pilgrims, such as sacred images and rosaries.



The most recurring image is certainly that of Pope Francis, in various forms: from greeting the faithful to their blessing.

Maximum attention paid to the attention to detail, from the symbol of the Vatican State with the reproduction of the tiara or tiara, the Pontiff's headdress, to the rosaries in which the metal plates with the stamped coat of arms of the Vatican are, of course , to the reproduction of the dome and the splendid colonnade of St. Peter's Square.