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Pescara: State Police arrests 5 young foreigners for evasion, stalking and criminal association

The operation is part of a broader strategic plan, which concerns criminal conduct committed by very young people.

Pescara: State Police arrests 5 young foreigners for evasion, stalking and criminal association

The State Police has executed the Pre-trial detention of 5 young foreigners, all aged between the 18 and the 19 years, requested by the Public Prosecutor's Office of Pescara and ordered by the GIP, for the crimes of extortion, stalking and even criminal association "aimed at committing multiple crimes of private violence, aggravated threats, beatings, extortion... through raids in the city centre at night and harassment of occasional passers-by".

The measures are based on the survey carried out by the Police officers from the Pescara and Chieti mobile squad which, starting from some criminal episodes occurred in the last month of August in the central areas of this capital, to the detriment of more victims, she managed to identify a group of young North African foreigners who used to hang around the station and the beach resorts, especially in the evening and at night, taking advantage of the large influx of people to commit predatory crimes or even simply to harass unsuspecting unfortunate people, taking advantage of the strength of the group and, sometimes, also armed with clubs and knives.

In particular, the group committed against one of the victims a real extortion, snatching the phone from her hand and demanding payment for its return; towards the same boy, the harassing conduct, consisting mostly in beatings and threats aggravated by the use of instruments capable of causing offence, they were repeated several times, to the point of generating a severe state of anxiety in the victim and therefore also configure the crime of persecution.

Also thanks to the monitoring activity carried out by the police officers of the Pescara Police Headquarters in the past months on the groups of young people who, during the past summer, gathered in strategic points of the city, the investigators of the Flying Squad have managed not only to identify those responsible for the crimes, some of whom formally had no connections with this province (but who, in reality, went there every day during the summer season), but also to demonstrate their habit of acting in groups in the areas and at the times being monitored, in order to more effectively perpetrate their criminal conduct.

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Following these investigative activities, the defendants were charged with several criminal episodes involving beatings and threats aggravated by the use of clubs and knives, in addition to extortion and stalking of which it has been said.

On the basis of the investigative elements collected, the Public Prosecutor's Office of Pescara has identified among the adults a real criminal association bringing to the attention of the GIP, who agreed on the validity of the accusatory thesis, "the existence of a united group, ready to harass occasional passers-by out of a mere desire to harm others... a non-occasional meeting of the accused for the exercise on the territory of planned group actions against the safety and property of the weakest members, strong - the associates - of the common ethnic belonging and of the overwhelming number".

The investigators' activities will continue, however, in order to verify any responsibilities of other individuals involved in the same or other events that occurred in the city.

In compliance with the presumption of innocence, it is specified that the responsibilities for the facts contested in the precautionary order, even if based on elements considered serious enough to justify the restrictive measure of freedom mentioned above, must in any case be examined by the procedural activity and that today's suspects cannot be considered guilty until all levels of judgment have been concluded.

The operation is part of a broader strategic plan, which concerns precisely the criminal conduct committed by very young people, a phenomenon present in many cities, discussed and addressed also in the Provincial Committee for Public Order and Safety of this capital.

 

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