Genoa: Man Destroys School Steps with Hammers. One of the Many Reported During Police Control Services.

Busy day for the patrol cars State Police engaged in control of the territory in the city centre and in various delegations with 7 citizens reported.

In particular, in the first operation, late in the evening in Martinez Square, the officers of a UPGSP patrol surprised a 48-year-old while, armed with a hammer, he was destroying the marble steps of the Primary School “Guglielmo Marconi”. Taken to the police station, the man was reported for damage; the hammer was seized.

Also yesterday evening, the officers of a UPGSP patrol car, on patrol in the Bolzaneto area, following a report, Two minors and a 19-year-old were stopped while trying to force the steering lock of a scooter parked in via Bolzaneto. The three boys were reported for attempted theft in competition.

At around 00.30 the patrol officers, engaged in territorial control in the Pegli delegation, intervened in via Teodoro II di Monferrato where a girl and a boy had been reported intent on force the doors of parked cars. After a brief escape attempt, the two young people, she 20 and he 34, were captured blocked and found in possession of a camera, of two lenses and a flash whose possession they were unable to justify; the girl was also found in possession of a screwdriver and a curved metal stick.

The two young people were taken to the police station and were reported for receiving stolen goods and the 20-year-old also for possession of objects capable of causing offence.

The last person reported is a 38-year-old illegal alien: the man, stopped for a routine check, gave his personal details and then attacked the UPGSP officers. Taken to the Police Headquarters, the 38-year-old was placed at the disposal of the Immigration Office for the formal procedures.