Maxi seizure of Mickey Mouse and Mickey Mouse Turtleneck by the Financial Police and the Customs and Monopolies Agency. At the port of Livorno, 134 electrical automobiles had been blocked as a result of they’d stickers with the Italian flag on their sides. As reported by the newspaper The Tyrrhenian Seathe army challenged Stellantis, the Italian-French automobile producer, for the fallacious indication of the origin of the product which isn’t “made in Italy”, however manufactured in Morocco and arrived in Tuscany on a freight ship.
The kidnapping it befell on Wednesday 15 May and the crime charged is “sale of commercial merchandise with false indicators”. The prosecutor of Stellantis Europa spa is beneath investigation and the seals have been positioned pursuant to article 4, paragraph 49, of the 2004 Finance Law. The regulation gives that «importation and exportation for advertising and marketing functions or advertising and marketing or fee of acts which aren’t unequivocally entitled to the advertising and marketing of merchandise bearing false and deceptive indications of provenance or origin” constitutes a criminal offense, on this case the sale of commercial merchandise with false indicators, punished by article 517 of the penal code.
Stellantis’ reply: “Ready to take away the sticker, however now we have all the time been clear in saying that the automobile is manufactured in Morocco”
Stellantis’ reply is prepared, which «believes, with respect to the truth that a small sticker bearing the colours of the Italian flag affixed to the doorways may represent a false indication of the origin of the products, to have operated in full compliance with the laws, transparently speaking the Topolino manufacturing nation, with none misleading intent in the direction of shoppers. In any case, to resolve each problem it was determined to intervene on the seized automobiles with the elimination of the small stickers topic to authorization from the authorities”. Which provides that «the sticker in query had the only function of indicating the entrepreneurial origin of the product. In truth, the design of the brand new Topolino, which has been a historic automobile for Fiat since 1936, was conceived and developed in Turin by a crew of execs from the FIAT Style Center of Stellantis Europe SpA, an Italian firm. Furthermore, for the reason that presentation of the brand new mannequin, the corporate has all the time been clear in declaring that it’s manufactured in Morocco.”