They left from the Roma camp in Giugliano to commit thefts at ATMs in Umbria and Tuscany.
Ten precautionary custody orders issued by the investigating judge of Perugia at the request of the Public Prosecutor's Office were executed today by the Carabinieri of Montepulciano in Giugliano in Campania, Naples, and in San Cipriano di Aversa, Caserta, for robberies and ATM thefts.
Six recipients of the measures are under arrest in prison, 3 under house arrest and one of the suspects is required to report to the judicial police. Eight of the suspects, residents in a mobile camp in Giugliano, were already known for other thefts of ATM columns and car parts in specialized depots.
The investigations began in September 2020 after the theft of an ATM in Montepulciano. A robbery that netted 52 thousand euros. Checks on security cameras and license plate readers had led to focusing attention on a van and a car.
While the investigations had led to the hypothesis of another theft in Assisi. So the Carabinieri of Montepulciano and Assisi, between 17 and 18 September 2020, kept an ATM under surveillance, considered the possible target. Suspicions were soon confirmed: using the car and the van, the thieves had uprooted the ATM before fleeing pursued by the military of the Arma.
The ATM, with 13 thousand euros, was left on the street, while the perpetrators of the robbery fled, even forcing a roadblock, before abandoning the vehicles. In the collision with the service cars, a carabiniere was injured. The subsequent investigations, also using the GPS system installed for insurance purposes on one of the vehicles used by the gang, the telephone interceptions and the technical-scientific surveys conducted in collaboration with the Siena Investigative Unit, then led to the identification of the alleged perpetrators.
Evidence also emerged against one of these for an improper robbery that took place in Paliano di Frosinone, on March 10, 2021, in a car depot, a robbery in which one of the alleged participants in the Assisi robbery had already been arrested red-handed.
A total of 12 people are under investigation. The crimes hypothesized by the Perugia Public Prosecutor's Office, led by Raffaele Cantone, are aggravated theft, aggravated robbery, resisting a public official and aggravated personal injury.
Article published on 23 February 2022 - 16:38
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