Naples. There is a second arrest request for the fifty-year-old Neapolitan Francesco Marrazzo originally from the Spanish Quarters, in prison since yesterday for aggravated robbery and aggravated personal injury.
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He is the "serial poisoner" who in the last week has created concern among the population of central Naples because he was poisoning citizens with almond milk tainted with psychotropic drugs.
Yesterday, in the validation hearing held before the investigating judge Marcello De Chiara, the man (defended by Giuseppe De Gregorio) admitted his responsibilities regarding the episode of the elderly woman from Ischia who was stunned and robbed at the port of Naples on June 22.
“They were drops of “Tranquillit”, three or four, it’s a tranquilizer that can also be given to children…”, he admitted.
The woman was robbed of 2 thousand euros, documents and credit cards and then abandoned, still unconscious, in a peripheral street of the Poggioreale neighborhood, where some passers-by then helped her and alerted the police.
However, in the next few hours the investigating judge will be called to decide on a new arrest request signed by the prosecutors Enrica Parascandolo and Maurizio De Franchis.
Three Poisoning Episodes: Caught by Cameras
There are in fact three other episodes in which the man is the protagonist of attempts to poison 8 other people. There are videos that incriminate him. Marrazzo had offered almond milk to all of them at the “Tranquillit”
Four clerks at a hypermarket in Piazza Poderico, three at a supermarket in Via Foria and the owner of a tobacconist's in the centre had to seek treatment from doctors at the Pellegrini hospital for food poisoning.
According to the investigating judge, Marrazzo must stay in prison because he could commit other crimes”
According to the investigating judge: "Marrazzo cannot remain free because he could commit further crimes. His criminal capacity can be deduced from his many specific precedents, as well as from four escapes".
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Article published on 14 July 2024 - 07:58
