Villaricca Robbery: Greco Caught by Videos and Phone Calls

According to the prosecutors, the videos acquired by investigators and the statements made by some witnesses nail Giuseppe Greco, 26 years old, in prison since yesterday evening accused of being responsible for the death of 30-year-old Ciro Chirollo and 40-year-old Domenico Romano.

The two criminals were hit by a car and killed last Friday in Marano after robbing the young man of a valuable Rolex. The charges against Greco are: Prosecutor's Office of North Naples issued an arrest warrant, executed by the Carabinieri, on charges of double voluntary homicide. According to the investigating office led by acting prosecutor Carmine Renzulli, it was Greco who ran over the two robbers who, in order to steal the expensive Rolex Gmt in steel and gold that he was wearing on his wrist, acted armed with a gun that turned out to be real with a bullet in the barrel.

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Several cameras filmed the final part of the chase, the Smart ramming without a hint of braking, the violent impact of both vehicles against a wall, and also what happened afterwards, when the driver of the car approached the bodies, got back into the car, tried to restart it and then drove away on a scooter driven by a young man who was passing by. Greco, on Friday evening, defended himself by telling the prosecutor Paolo Martinelli that he had been robbed of his watch, his Smart and his money (200 euros never found), and that, therefore, he could not have been driving when the impact occurred. A version that turned out to be full of gaps and contradictions, which prompted investigators to report Greco. The documents also include a voice message sent to his girlfriend: "I'm in my car, they stole my car, I went to see... to see if I could catch them, they crashed on Via del Padreterno, they killed themselves..."

THE TESTIMONY OF TWO SECURITY GUARDS

The investigations of the Marano Carabinieri, however, have allowed them to find other valuable images from private homes in the area where the impact occurred, in via Antica Consolare Campania: among these also of the ramming and the chase that began after the robbery. Then there is the testimony of two security guards, who admitted to having seen Greco chasing the scooter at high speed. The 26-year-old (with no criminal record, defended by the lawyer Domenico Della Gatta) who runs the online sale of clothing with his girlfriend, could admit his responsibilities in the preliminary hearing that should be held between today and tomorrow.

AUTOPSY ON THE BODIES OF CHIROLLO AND ROMANO

In the meantime, the autopsy on the two bodies was carried out in the hospital of Giugliano in Campania, confirming the instant death of Chirollo and Romano due to trauma and fractures suffered (one ended up against a pole, the other against a wall); the investigation, whose overall outcome will be made known in the coming weeks, will also have to ascertain whether Greco, after having rammed the Tmax, also ran over the bodies now on the ground with his wheels, as hypothesized immediately after the events. The identification of the young man on the scooter who gave Greco a lift is underway. Finally, no trace of the car inside which, according to the 26-year-old, there were accomplices of Chirollo and Romano.

A DRIVER'S ALARM AT 19,37:XNUMX PM

The urgent restrictive measure was signed by the prosecutor of Naples North, Paolo Martinelli. On the evening of March 26, everything happened in a short time. The first to raise the alarm on the emergency number of the Carabinieri was a driver who had noticed smoke coming out of a white car against a wall on Via Antica Consolare Campana and then the bodies of two people on the asphalt. A road accident, he told the operators. It was 19.37:19.41 PM. At 19,45:4 PM a call also came from a security guard, and at 118:XNUMX PM a patrol of the municipal police was on the scene. Two other guards reported the gun on the ground to the patrol, who also said they had been overtaken while they were on board their car on Via San Rocco by a white Smart For XNUMX that seemed to be chasing a powerful scooter. In the meantime, XNUMX confirmed the death of Chirollo and Romano, probably instantly, hit by the car, and the Carabinieri began to investigate.

Meanwhile, at the Marano station offices, Greco shows up at 19.56:20.15 p.m., with a bleeding wound on his hand; then he changes his mind and leaves. He returns, accompanied by his brother Mattia, at XNUMX:XNUMX p.m. “There were two of them, they threatened me with a gun, they took the Rolex (a steel and gold GMT, later found on the asphalt, ed.) and then they hit me with the gun in my hand and they also took my car, driven by the passenger of the scooter,” he wrote in black and white. “The coincidence of the two vehicles (found on the street, ed.) with those of the reported robbery was evident,” the prosecutor wrote.

 THE STORY OF GRECO'S GIRLFRIEND

A. D'A., Greco's girlfriend, will tell investigators that she had been out with him all afternoon; Greco had then accompanied her to his home in Marano, from which she had left around 19:41 p.m. About XNUMX minutes later he had sent her a voice message via WhatsApp, saying that they had taken his car and crashed: "I'm with my car... they stole my car... I went to see if I could catch them... they crashed on the street of the Father, these sons of men have killed themselves, they know what they've done." The video surveillance images from private systems along those two streets reconstruct the passages of both the car and the scooter. Greco had initially denied to the prosecutor that he had chased his robbers, a circumstance that was inconsistent with what he had said in the message to his girlfriend.

GRECO PORTRAITS HIS FIRST VERSION

When cornered, he retracts his version and says that a boy he knew had stopped with a scooter and asked him to accompany him to see where my robbers were. “I found the car on the street… there was a mess of cars and scooters… two boys on the ground… I even looked to see if my watch could be there,” he says. And he even reconstructs, thanks to Google Maps, the route he would have taken on board this hypothetical scooter with this hypothetical friend. In fact, the images from the cameras showed the passage on Via Antica Consolare in the opposite direction to that described by him of a moped with two people on board, one of whom, the passenger, is none other than Giuseppe Greco.

VIDEO IMAGES NAILS HIM

Unfortunately, the images from the video surveillance systems in via Antica Consolare Campana immortalize the moment of impact and when the driver gets out of the car and passes behind the car and approaches both bodies. At this point the moped arrives with another person who picks up the driver of the car and takes him away. The passenger of this moped has identified himself without a shadow of a doubt as Giuseppe Greco, identical in clothing to the one he wears when he arrives at the barracks. For the prosecutor, moreover, the motive is an impulsive reaction, the desire to take revenge for the robbery he had just suffered, and also supported by malice "since the death of the two robbers is an absolutely certain consequence of a deliberate run over".