The modus operandi It is always the same: the phone call of a self -styled exponent of the police, the history, totally invented, of the serious accident caused by a next relative and the request for money in cash or precious objects to be delivered immediately to an emissary of the phantom agent or carabiniere To prevent the relative, asserted responsible for the accident, end up in jail.
As is now on the whole national territory, The city of Reggio Calabria also continues to be a destination for subjects, mostly of Campania origin, who move every day around Italy waiting for, from the operational base, the indication of going to “help” the culprit family arrives.
Targets are always elderly people who are literally bombarded with contemporary phone calls on mobile phones and used and invested utilities of a very serious and urgent situation concerning a joint of which immediately serves as much money as possible to avoid worse troubles.
It happened again. According to reports in the complaint, The victim, a lady of almost ninety yearswas reached by several calls on the two telephone users in his possession and informed of a serious road accident caused by the son who needed a sum of money to bear insurance expenses and avoid more serious consequences.
The two telephone interlocutors, sensed the presence in the home of the caregiver, would have invited the elderly person to make her remove with an excuse. Frastornata, the victim would have remained on the phone until he arrived at his home, of the accomplice.
Still afraid, The woman would show the man the chest of drawers where she kept the jewelry in gold and where the sum in cash equal to 5,500 euros was also present that it asked to be able to save as they are intended for her funeral.
The suspect, regardless of this request, would have taken possession of everything, even money. Only at that moment the lady, understanding that she was deceived, would have tried to recover her things but The man would have pushed her and, at the same time, with threatening doing it would have hinted her not to move so as not to suffer more serious consequences.
The old woman, already with walking difficulties, so much so as to use a support for movements, would not have opposed any resistance allowing man to rushedly to escape reaching the accomplice that awaited him near the victim’s home aboard a rental car.
Shortly thereafter, the caregiver, having taken note of what happened, alerted the police. Received the communication, the investigators of the Mobile Squad, in an attempt to reconstruct the possible movements of the authors of the crime, learned of the referral by the Salary Police of Sala Consilina of two subjects of Neapolitan origins for the crimes of receiving stolen goods and resistance to public officials, during the time compatible with the journey potentially traveled by the subjects who had perpetrated the robbery against the elderly of Reggio Calabria.
For this reason, with the coordination of the Prosecutor of the Republic of Reggio Calabria directed by Giuseppe Lombardo, the agents immediately started the investigations aimed at verifying the possible correspondence between the author of the Reggio Calabria robbery and the subjects reported by colleagues from Sala Consilina.
The elderly lady undoubtedly recognized the man who had entered his house and the stolen goods. The data was then corroborated by the correspondence of the footprints left by one of the accomplices at the victim’s home.
The investigating judge of Reggio Calabria, at the request of the Prosecutor’s Office, issued for both the measure of the pre -trial detention in prison carried out on 9 July with the collaboration of the Naples mobile team where the suspects were residents.