21.   The Italian police have ruled the death an accident.

22.   The Italian police and secret services were unable to rescue him, and their stunning display of incompetence was quickly interpreted as deliberate.

23.   The Italian police responded this week with the arrest of the man they identified as Pavon.

24.   The Italian police said it was also unclear how the men planned to gain access to water pipes leading to the embassy.

25.   The Italian police do not keep statistics on crimes against people in their cars.

26.   The reports said Italian police, working with FBI agents in Rome, discovered the bags while checking luggage on all flights arriving in Rome Thursday morning from Chicago.

27.   Venezia later fled to his home town of Laterza, in southern Italy, where he was arrested and held by Italian police pending extradition proceedings.

28.   When the Italian police boats close in on them, the smugglers sometimes escape by throwing children into the water to force their pursuers to stop for rescue operations.

29.   Police said his presence in the state of Baden-Wuerttemberg was discovered at the beginning of October, in cooperation with the Italian police.

30.   Police believe that criminals in Italy also were involved in the case, and Italian police have begun their own investigation.