He had decided to take revenge for a dispute, setting fire to the car of a merchant. But his escape lasted little: thanks to careful investigative activity, the carabinieri identified and arrested him.
It happened to Reggio Calabrialate in the evening of 28 February last. Around 11 pm, a violent fire has completely destroyed a car parked and damaged a nearby building. The carabinieri of the Catoforio station, intervened promptly on the spot, immediately excluded the accidental nature of the stake. The first investigations have in fact highlighted clear elements of willful misconduct.
Coordinated by the Prosecutor of the Republic of Reggio Calabria, led by the Prosecutor that Giuseppe Lombardo works, the military started a close investigation. The analysis of the video surveillance movies of the area was fundamental, which allowed to reconstruct in detail the dynamics of the fire and to identify the alleged manager: it is a man who, according to what emerged, He would have acted following a dispute for futile reasons with the owner of the commercial activity.
On the basis of the elements collected, the judicial authority issued an order for pre -trial detention under house arrest. It is, it is good to remember it, a provision adopted in the preliminary investigations phase: for the suspect the principle of presumption of innocence is worth up to any definitive sentence.
The operation represents a further confirmation of the constant and widespread action of the Carabinieri weapon in the fight against crime and in the protection of security even in the most peripheral realities of the territory.