Rome: 15 thefts committed against commercial activities, 26-year-old arrested

The modus operandi was always the same: he operated at night, carefully choosing the commercial activities to loot, those without iron shutters and equipped with a display window, then equipping himself with stones with which he broke the glass and entered inside to collect the money from the coffers and escape.

For a 26 year old Italian, following the investigations conducted by the State Police officers of the XI Exhibition District, the precautionary measure of house arrest with the application of the remote electronic control tool has been triggered ordered by the Court of Rome at the request of the local Public Prosecutor's Office.

It was the complaints of local shopkeepers, exasperated by the numerous thefts they had suffered, that triggered the investigation. Thanks to the elements acquired from the numerous reports, the images from the video surveillance systems and the usual modus operandi, it was possible to trace all the thefts back to the same person responsible. However, it was a tattoo behind the ear that was the decisive element in recognising the criminal, an element common to the perpetrator of all the thefts and captured in video surveillance footage.

The man, questioned by the police, He admitted to being a drug addict and committing the thefts to obtain money for crack and cocaine. In any case, the accused is to be considered presumed innocent, in consideration of the current phase of the proceedings, that is, that of the preliminary investigations, until a definitive determination of guilt with an irrevocable sentence.