Ragusa: Caught red-handed while looting inside a restaurant, two young men aged 25 and 28 arrested

The Carabinieri of the Radiomobile Section of the Ragusa Company have Two North African citizens aged 25 and 28, with multiple criminal convictions, were arrested in flagrante delicto for property and drug-related crimes, responsible for a series of criminal acts following their escape from the Iblean therapeutic community that hosts them. The series of thefts committed by the two non-EU citizens, both of Moroccan origin, was stopped when a Carabinieri patrol car surprised them and arrested them for aggravated theft in competition, after having intercepted them outside a restaurant in the historic centre of Ragusa, where they had entered and shattered the glass of the entrance door with a large stone recovered nearby.

Not new to similar episodes, the two criminals were also filmed by the video surveillance systems of the restaurant, from which they stole a tablet and several bottles of alcohol. The Carabinieri, during the personal search promoted immediately on the scene of the events, have a large quantity of stamped paper was also found, with a total value of approximately 500 Euro. They immediately traced the place of origin of what was found in their possession during the night, The military were therefore able to reconstruct a further theft perpetrated by the two before their arrest., where they had looted some offices in via Giorgio La Pira, stealing several PCs and some smartphones, for a total damage of just under 10.000 euros.

The subsequent investigations promoted by the men of the Carabinieri have the involvement in the criminal episodes of a third individual, a 34-year-old Sicilian, with numerous criminal records, to whom the two Moroccans allegedly sold the stolen goods, was ascertained. La a search of the latter's home allowed the recovery and return to their rightful owners of a large part of the stolen goods stolen during the thefts committed.

Once the formalities have been completed, the two non-EU citizens were once again placed in the therapeutic community under house arrest for the theft committed at the restaurant and reported for the predatory action carried out previously. The 34-year-old was instead reported at large for the crime of receiving stolen goods. For him the Iblea Judicial Authority will evaluate the degree of responsibility of his position, instead the hearing has already been examined which has validated the arrest of the non-EU citizens and ordered the precautionary detention in prison for both of them.