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Last year our country recorded a clear new growth in numbers thefts Of vehicles (+7% vs 2022), which reached 131,679 units in our country. The increase affected practically all categories of vehicles, cars/SUVs, motorcycles/scooters. An even more significant increase specifically concerned motor vehicles (+11%), which returned close to 100 thousand thefts per year, while motor vehicles recorded only a slight increase (+2%). The percentage of vehicles recovered and returned to their rightful owner following the theft. The data confirms the difficulties in combating this crime and how these activities are today the prerogative of real holding companies for the sale and/or disassembly of stolen vehicles, capable of acting very promptly and routing the vehicles or individual disassembled components along the Balkan routes of Eastern Europe or towards North Africa and even in the Middle East.

These and many other data are certified by the usual annual appointment with the “Dossier on Vehicle Thefts 2024”, developed by LoJack Italia, a leading company in telematics solutions for the Automotive and in the recovery of stolen vehicles, which collected and analyzed the data provided by the Ministry of the Interior for 2023 and integrated them with those coming from national and international calculations and reports on the phenomenon.