Figline e Incisa Valdarno: “mirror scam” foiled by Carabinieri

On the morning of Tuesday 22 October, during a daily territorial control service, the attention of the military of the Figline Arma was drawn to two vehicles stopped in a lay-by, in the Ciliegi area of ​​Reggello.

Lo exchange of money between the drivers of the two vehicles did not go unnoticed by the patrol, who decided to check what was happening. The intuition that it could be a fraud was immediately confirmed when on the one hand it emerged that one of the two drivers, driving a van, he had just had it delivered the cash sum of 440 euros from the other driver; on the other hand the same was found in possession of a black chalk, probably used shortly before for simulate fake damage on the side of the vehicle.

The man, with police records for property crimes, Was deferred to the Public Prosecutor's Office of Florence.