Rome: three people arrested for theft and a 21-year-old detained in prison for attempted robbery

Rome: three people arrested for theft and a 21-year-old detained in prison for attempted robbery.

The services of the continue incessantly State Police aimed at combating the phenomenon of predatory crimes. The investigators of the VIII Tor Carbone District, a Rome, during a specific territorial control service aimed at combating shop thefts, arrested a 43-year-old man and a 41-year-old woman, both Peruvians, as they are seriously suspected of aggravated theft in competition. The police, passing through Via Giustiniano Imperatore, noticed the two leaving a clothing store with two large bags in tow. At this point, becoming suspicious, they stopped the two people, finding inside the bags that were equipped with "shielding" to evade the anti-shoplifting barriers, numerous items of clothing still with labels and anti-shoplifting plates. After contacting the shop staff, it was ascertained that the items in the bags were missing. At the end of the investigations the two were arrested.

The agents of the Romanina police station, however, intervened in via Marco Fulvio Nobiliore following a collision. Upon entering the store, the officers found a 22-year-old man from Morocco who, taking advantage of the situation, had entered the business removing goods for 300 euros. At the end of the investigations the boy was arrested because he was seriously suspected of theft. Finally the policemen of the IX Exhibition District arrested a 21 year old seriously suspected of the crime of attempted robbery in competition with a minor and two other unknown persons. These, after having approached the victims who were in Viale America, invited them to follow them to a public park where they ordered them to hand over everything they had, attacking them with slaps and a punch in the face.

Following this, the woman who was in the company of the criminals started screaming, causing the group to stop. Thanks to the precise description of the attackers by the victims and the photographic recognition of the 21-year-old and the minor, the order implementing the precautionary custody measure in prison against the adult was carried out. All arrests were validated. In any case, all the suspects are to be considered presumed innocent, in consideration of the current phase of the proceedings or that of the preliminary investigations, until a definitive finding of guilt with an irrevocable sentence.