Ferrara: attempts to steal parked cars by smashing windows with a fire extinguisher. Caught thanks to a video surveillance system installed on one of the cars.

It was around 20.30pm on September 30th when, taking advantage of the darkness and the absence of passers-by, a 29-year-old man sneaked into the parking lot on Via del Lavoro, behind the train station. After wandering around among the cars, the young man a fire extinguisher was taken among those affixed to the walls of the structure and has started hitting the side window of a parked car.

After breaking it and rummaged through the vehicle, the same one then headed towards another parked car certainly not expecting what would happen shortly thereafter. After having hit the side window for the first time in fact, it is a video recording system has been put into operation installed on the car that has transmitted the images live to the owner.

The man, who was at work at the time, then realized immediately aware of the attempted theft in progress on his car and alerted 112. In a few minutes, two "gazelles" from the Radiomobile Section of the Ferrara Carabinieri arrived on Via del Lavoro. The soldiers, once they entered the parking lot, heard a loud thud.

It was the window of a third car swhere in the meantime the subject had rushed. The soldiers noticed, the young man he tried to hide among the other cars parked but was immediately reached by the Carabinieri and taken to the Provincial Command in via del Campo. The twenty-nine-year-old was then declared under arrest for attempted aggravated theft and held in the Command's security cells.

On the morning of October 1st, at the Court of Ferrara, the arrest was validated and the young man was released. He was ordered to report to the Judicial Police on a daily basis, pending the trial scheduled for November.