FLORENCE – In a few hours, 4 shoplifting was foiled in the same shopping center in Novoli
Yesterday, during the day, the State Police intervened several times in the same shopping center in Novoli, where private security surprised 4 people who, in different ways, had passed the checkouts with stolen goods.
The first episode, in chronological order, took place in the morning: shortly after 10.00 a security officer, during the monitoring of the video surveillance system of the exercise, would have noticed some a suspicious individual who was wandering among the shelves, taking and putting objects (including selfie auctions for almost 90 euros in value) in an envelope.
The vigilante waited for him at the exit to check his intentions: once he arrived at the “fast cash desks” the man would have climbed over the gate, naturally without the one he had grabbed just before.
Once stopped, the attacker would have managed to escape in the first place, striking in the face and taking a bite on the guard’s arm.
The fugitive should then try in every way to get away, even ending up walking on some shopping carts.
In the end he was re-grabbed: the police officers immediately intervened and the protagonist of the story, a 23-year-old Moroccan, ended up in handcuffs on charges of attempted improper robbery.
In the afternoon, around 4.00 pm, the private security of the same establishment surprised another Moroccan citizen, this time 27 years old, after he passed the checkouts paying only for a bottle of beer, while in his pocket he had a energy accumulator just stolen inside.
After more than an hour it was the turn of a 29-year-old from Cameroon, stopped at the exit of the same shopping center: the uneven man had a bottle of water, while in the backpack he carries on his shoulder he hid 4 bottles of Whiskey water.
The chain of thefts, discovered and thwarted yesterday in the same shopping center, was finally interrupted around 18.30, when a 26-year-old Tunisian citizen would queue up with another customer and, with a full basket of goods, had to leave without pay by waiting for the opening of the gate of the anti-theft barrier with the receipt of the latter’s expense.
However, the gesture did not escape private security: the young man was reached and stopped in the street near the bus stop with the booty of the shot in his hand.
In all these cases (with the exception of the one that led to the arrest), the police officers identified, detained for identification and reported the protagonists of the three episodes.