Gioia Tauro, enters the post office armed with a knife: the police stop him red-handed

John

By John

In Gioia Tauro, the Carabinieri intervened at the Post Office in Via Sicilia, where a man, with a distorted face and armed with a switchblade, had just attempted a robbery against the director and employees. The man of Moroccan origin had entered the post office premises in the early hours of the morning, threatening the director with a knife and forcing him to have the money contained in the cash registers delivered to him. Under threat, the employees handed over several sums of cash, while the robber ordered them to also open the armored cabinet to obtain further money. In the meantime, some employees managed to alert 112, allowing the patrols to intervene immediately. A few moments later, the Carabinieri, having arrived on site, broke into the office, surprising the man still armed and with his face covered by the hood of his sweatshirt and a pair of sunglasses. The criminal was blocked and handcuffed without anyone being injured. In the envelope he was carrying with him, the soldiers found a metal box containing around 1,300 euros in cash, just stolen from the counters. The arrested man, a convicted felon, was taken to the barracks and subsequently transferred to the Palmi prison, on the orders of the Palmi Public Prosecutor’s Office.