A male Italian national, who has been living in Puri since over 25 years and goes by the name Alfredo Rombola, has alleged that some miscreants have defamed him by creating fake Facebook IDs and are threatening to kill him and his family.
He alleged that the Police have not been helping him either. Alfredo alias Arjun Das told reporters he has been made to run from police station to police station to lodge an FIR. “The police are harassing me,” he said.
As per reports, Alfredo is married to woman from Banapur and the couple has a 20-year-old son. Alfredo does charitable works through a trust which he had set up. The trust, Radhika Charitable Trust, works in several districts of Odisha including Puri, Berhampur and Kandhamal. The charitable works include setting up of free medical camps for the poor, providing free medicines and wheel chair to the needy.
He has setup an office at Chandanpur near Puri where he had allegedly gone to file an FIR (at the police station) after he received life threats by some unidentified miscreants.
“The persons who have made my life miserable by issuing continuous threats are also Italians who have settled down in Puri, like me,” said Alfredo.
As per his allegations, the Chandanpur Police did not entertain his complaint and instead asked him to go lodge an FIR in Puri, where he lives.
Asked about the allegations, the Additional Superintendent of Police of Puri, Mihir Panda, said, “This is a case of creation of fake Facebook ID and threat posts. We will probe the matter and appropriate action will be taken against the miscreants.”