Oggiono: Stalking of ex-wife, 46-year-old arrested

The Carabinieri of the Oggiono Station have 46-year-old Italian man arrested on suspicion of stalking. The man, unable to accept the end of the relationship with his ex-wife, He stalked the woman and the people with whom she had personal relationships for months. The climax of the episode occurred in recent days, when the suspect allegedly set fire to the car owned by a friend of his ex-wife who was considered "guilty" of giving her a lift after work, a few days before.

The Carabinieri of Oggiono, who promptly intervened on the scene of the fire, immediately began investigations. Thanks to the images from the video surveillance cameras and the reports collected from the victims involved, it was possible to reconstruct what happened.

Using the legal instrument of arrest in deferred flagrancy, also introduced for crimes involving gender violence, the military tracked down and arrested the 46-year-old while he was sitting at a table in a bar. The man was still wearing the same clothes that were caught on camera at the time of the fire. The Judge for Preliminary Investigations of the Court of Lecco, following the validation hearing, accepting the reasons put forward by the Public Prosecutor's Office of Lecco, validated the arrest for stalking and ordered the man to be held in prison.