Giancarlo Russo, a 41-year-old from Casalnuovo di Napoli, and a 37-year-old woman will have to answer for damages and attempted fraud.
The carabinieri of Napoli Capodimonte were passing by on Viale Colli Aminei, not far from the police station. The two were in a black Fiat 500 X—which had previously been reported by many residents as a suspicious vehicle—when the 41-year-old grabbed a shoe and hit the mirror of a passing car.
Mirror scam in Naples: couple arrested
The driver of the vehicle stopped and the charade began. Russo and the 37-year-old simulated an accident, complaining that they had been hit by the mirror. The soldiers saw everything and, remembering the report of the black crossover, stopped the two.
He is under house arrest awaiting trial while the woman has been reported.
The Carabinieri of the company Vomero and the Capodimonte station invite all citizens who have suffered similar acts by people who used a black Fiat 500 X to file a complaint.
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