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He wanted to be arrested and randomly chose Laura Cavallo, 47, as a hostage, the “mentally labile” woman who since last night (Monday, August 31) is imprisoned in Turin on suspicion of kidnapping, after having threatened and held hostage a forty-year-old saleswoman from a jewelry store in the center of Cuneo, Young by Ravizza, on Corso Nizza.
A lucid insanity, so much so that the woman (originally from Boves and resident in Cuneo), known to the police at least since the 1990s for these striking gestures. yesterday, shortly before 7 pm, he made three telephone calls almost in a row to 112 with the police and the carabinieri. The first to say “I’m Laura, I have a knife, I will kidnap a person in an hour” and the last to say: “I have the hostage, I don’t have to tell you where I am so that you can find me quickly.” In fact, the phone calls alert the police with patrols patrolling the city. Laura Cavallo first enters a clothing store, then goes out and selects the nearby jewelry store under the arcades, at number 44, corso Nizza. He says nothing: he points a cutter at the neck of the clerk, makes her close the front door, close the lights and hide in the bathroom with the hostage. To the obviously terrified hostage, Cavallo only explains to be calm: “I need to hold the hostage. Don’t play pranks or I’ll scare you.
It was a saleswoman at a nearby store to see the lights off, look for the jewelry saleswoman on her cell phone (no response) then took a copy of the keys and opened the main door of the jewelry store, just like a Flying patrol Squad: the saleswoman ran after her and stopped her. Meanwhile, the Uopi anti-terrorist units also arrived: The negotiation began with three policemen from Volanti and Uopi in front of the closed bathroom door and the woman locked in the small service room with the hostage. At least 15 minutes of tension, questions, breaks. When the kidnapped shop assistant was about to pass out, Laura Cavallo gave up and opened the door, throwing the cutter on the ground and being arrested. The saleswoman was in shock, but unharmed. Yesterday under the arcades of Corso Nizza the police isolated the entire area, coordinated by curator Luigi Chilla. Deputy Attorney General Gabriella Viglione coordinated the subsequent investigations and interrogations of the kidnapper and victim. The woman, in addition to being arrested for kidnapping. She is also accused of threats, injuries, and illegal possession of an offending object.
