Italian police seize over 100 Fiat cars made in Morocco for carrying Italian flag colours

Italian fiscal police seized 134 Fiat cars imported from Morocco because a sticker on the doors with the colour of the Italian flag could be deceptive of the car’s origin, a spokesman from Fiat’s parent company Stellantis said last week, according to Reuters.

The spokesman confirmed local media report that 134 Fiat Topolino cars were seized temporarily at the Italian port of Livorno after arriving from the north African country where they were made.

Italy's right-wing government and Stellantis have been at loggerheads for months over the company’s foreign manufacturing operations, with Giorgia Meloni’s administrationasserting that cars marketed as Italian products should be produced in Italy.

Last month another Stellantis brand, Alfa Romeo, said it would rename its new Milano car as Junior, bowing to government opposition to an Italian name for a car made in Poland.