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VENICE – Two thirty-year-old Venetians identified and arrested, the accusation is heavy for them: they are allegedly the perpetrators of a violent robbery of a tourist, complete with a gun pointed to the face and kicked in the face. A terrifying scene, also captured by the cameras. The event dates back to the past Carnival, but the perpetrators were identified after long and careful investigations.
On the morning of today, January 2, 2021, the soldiers of the Nucleo Natanti dei Carabinieri of Venice carried out a precautionary custody order, issued by the Preliminary Investigative Judge of the Venice Court, against two Venetians in their thirties, with numerous police records, for the crime of attempted armed robbery, against a foreign tourist visiting the capital of March.
Robbery at Carnival
The events date back to February 2020 when, in the middle of Carnival, during one of the nights dedicated to the celebrations, the two robbed a tourist, with an English accent, near the Rialto. Passing through a dark and secluded alley, the two noticed the victim alone and sitting on the ground, intending to use his smartphone and unaware of what was about to happen to him. The aggressors, at first approached the man, turning around him and, later, noticing the absence of passersby and covering part of the face with hoods, they approached again and they pointed guns at him to get the phone mobile phone.
Gun to the face
The unfortunate, scared, still tried react to the attack, unfortunately provoking a backlash from one of the thieves who, hitting him with two kicks to the face, he approached the tourist again pointing the gun at close range, “scarrellando” in his direction. Fortunately, seconds later, the action was interrupted by the arrival of a group of passersby, in view of the fact that the two criminals have fled to the neighboring streets, without being able to get hold of the cell phone. Then the foreign tourist asked for help from the employees of a nearby business, to whom he tried to explain what happened.
Filmed by cameras
After the event, the police immediately began an articulated investigation that, thanks to the statements of witnesses, to the analysis of phone records already the vision of various images from cameras The closed circuit present in the area, including those managed by the Venice City Council, made it possible to identify those responsible for this serious crime. For one of the two men, by order of the magistrate, the prison doors were opened, while the second ended up under house arrest. Both, despite their young age, are not new to episodes of extreme violence, all of which took place in the city.
The victim’s yellow
There would be one last piece left to complete the puzzle: the identification of the victim. In fact, the Carabinieri, who carried out the investigations on their own initiative and on time, could not, despite the various attempts also made with the different trade associations, identify the poor, probably foreign tourist. In addition, no one has filed a complaint with the Police Forces or even presented in any health facility. If any reader identifies with the victim, call 112 or go to a Carabinieri barracks.
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