Sanremo: A 28-year-old Moroccan man stages a fight and rips off a necklace from his neck. He's arrested for robbery.

I Carabinieri of the Sanremo Company have arrested in flagrante delicto a foreigner held responsible for aggravated robbery.

The man, a twenty-eight-year-old Moroccan citizen, criminal and irregular on the national territory, in obvious state of alteration due to excessive alcohol intake, near Nino Bixio Street he approached a sixty-four year old from Sanremo, with which, for no apparent reason, began to argue heatedly.

The probable purpose of the discussion staged by the stranger was to try to get closer to the unfortunate man and try to steal a showy necklace from him which was sticking out from the latter's shirt, so much so that shortly after one was born scuffle, during which the necklace fell to the ground and was immediately picked up by a accomplice of the attacker who then drove away on a scooter.

The stranger also tried to escape once he had achieved his goal, but the presence of some passers-by prevented him from moving too far from Via Nino Bixio has always been Sanremo Radiomobile patrol he immediately intercepted it in transit.

Taken to the barracks, after the ritual formalities the arrested person was accompanied to the Sanremo Prison, at the disposal of theJudicial authority for legal consequences.

Investigations are underway to fully identify the accomplice of the arrested person who is now accused of the crime of participation in aggravated robbery and injuries, crimes for which he risks a prison sentence of more than five years, also because the victim, who was then accompanied to the emergency room, reported several injuries and for a few weeks they will not allow him to attend to his activities.