Rome: threatens two women aged 92 and 83, 37 year old reported for extortion

Rome: threatens two women aged 92 and 83, 37 year old reported for extortion.

Extortion, this is the crime contested by the Judge for Preliminary Investigations to a 37enne of origins bells which, on 2 separate occasions, he stole with the threats alcune thousands of euros to 2 elderly people. THE investigations of the State Police, coordinated by the Capitoline Prosecutor's Office, allowed the issuing of the precautionary measure.

I crime occurred in the neighborhoods of Nuovo Salario and Villa Gordiani, more than a month apart. The schedule for both of us it is that sadly known of the fake nephew: a telephone operator, pretending to be a son/grandson in serious difficulty, asks the elderly man for money. This call is often followed by another from a fake public official and/or member of the police force who, in addition to endorsing the first phone call, puts pressure on the victim by keeping her on the phone so as not to give her the opportunity to ask for help. At this point the "person in charge" shows up at the door to collect the money. The accomplice, and this is precisely the role that today's suspect would have played.

In both investigations, conducted by the Fidene district and the Tor Pignattara police station, the person in charge did not limit himself to collect, but he would have added real ones threats to convince the 2 elderly women to give him more money and jewels than the women had already prepared.

Carthusians The investigations also carried out with the indispensable technical-scientific contribution of the Scientific Police Department of the Rome Police Headquarters; thanks to them acquired elements we have arrived to the identification of the 37-year-old, a person already known to the police for similar episodes.

- clues harvests have allowed the Prosecutor of Rome to ask and obtain for the suspect issuance of a precautionary measure by the Judge for Preliminary Investigations. The same measure was carried out by policemen of both police offices who, after having tracked down the 37-year-old in his home in Naples, took him to Poggioreale prison.

At any rate the suspect is to be considered presumed innocent, in consideration of the current phase of the proceedings, i.e. that of the preliminary investigations, until a definitive finding of guilt with an irrevocable sentence.