Verona, a criminal network active in the station defeated: 33 precautionary measures and 44 preventive measures issued
After a ten-month-long careful investigation, this morning a blitz was launched that led to the defeat of a criminal network that carried out muggings, robberies, stabbings, and violence in the Verona Porta Nuova train station and Piazzale XXV Aprile. 33 precautionary measures and 44 preventive measures were issued.
Verona, a criminal network active in the station defeated: 33 precautionary measures and 44 preventive measures issued
The Verona State Police has executed an order that provides for 26 custodianse precautionary sentences in prison and 7 residence bans of province of Verona towards of as many suspects of Moroccan origin, with criminal records, homeless and illegal immigrants on the national territory: a large criminal network solidly intertwined and specialized in the serial commission of various crimes, especially against property, often accompanied by the use of violence.
An innovative investigation model that aims at procedural sustainability with serious and repeated facts attributed to each individual suspect: ten months (from August 2023 to May 2024) of muggings, robberies, stabbings, threats and violence carried out by one or more members of the group and always in the same territorial area - that of the Verona Porta Nuova railway station and Piazzale XXV Aprile – their main operational and meeting place.
This is the context in which it developed the investigation activity coordinated by the Public Prosecutor's Office at the Court of Verona and started by the section of Judicial Police of the Railway Police Department for Verona and Trentino Alto Adige together with the Scaligera mobile team in November 2023: six months in which, while the suspects continued to commit violent acts with impunity, The investigators collected and reconstructed every single episode point by point.
A consolidated and repeated modus operandi – with ease and unscrupulousness – in the same area, characterized by a continuous coming and going of people: a real operating system strengthened by the close bond of solidarity among the suspects, always ready to support and back each other in the commission of crimes against random victims, often approached with an excuse and then attacked from behind by an accomplice o, in the most serious cases, move away with the force, threatened, attacked and finally robbed.
Among the suspects, also the twenty-three year old and the twenty-four year old Moroccan, already in prison after the arrest carried out last June 5th by the State Police. The two had participated, together with four other accomplices, in the punitive expedition organized together against a compatriot who, two weeks earlier, had tried in vain to save a boy of Somali nationality who had ended up in the Camuzzoni canal. “Guilty for collaborating with the police”, had been surprised at night in his sleep, tied hand and foot, tortured and robbed.
An atrocious beating that testifies, Once again, the unscrupulousness of the suspects towards the police forces which, at times, they even opposed with violence, as clearly emerged from other episodes collected by the investigators.
As further proof of their unscrupulousness and indifference towards the public security authorities, the fact that some of the arrested were already recipients of measures from the Police Commissioner, such as DASPO Willy, which however they did not hesitate to violate by persevering in their illicit conduct.
At the same time as the vast judicial police operation, with the help of the Central Immigration Directorate, a high-impact police operation aimed at tracking down illegal aliens was also carried out to ensure it expulsion from the national territory with accompaniment to the border.
Both the phases saw 140 units of women and men from the State Police on the field, as well as the railway police and the Verona flying squad, also sent from other police stations by the Central Operations Service and the Immigration Service. The Territory Control Service and the Special Units Service also support the operations with UOPI crews (First Response Operational Units) and the crime prevention department, dog unit, mobile department and flight department.
Issues were also issued against the suspects – among other measures – 44 prevention measures including oral warnings and Daspo Willy applied by the Police Chief of the Province of Verona. 17 suspects are still wanted and will be arrested in the next few hours.
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