ANCONA A kiss on the cheek, as a sign of thanks for the information received. False like that of Judas. In an instant, the 5,000 euro Rolex disappeared from the victim’s wrist. «I don’t understand how this could have happened: in the evening I myself struggle to unfasten it because sometimes the strap gets stuck. It took her a few seconds to remove the watch.” Vladimiro Muti, a well-known engineer from Ancona, cannot rest. «She seemed honest – he says, incredulous -. She even made fun of me, thanking me before leaving. I was wrong to be kind to her.”
Regret
An irrepressible regret, which he also expressed to the police at the Brecce Bianche station, where he immediately went to file a report for the theft suffered yesterday morning in via Marsala. And now he is hunting for the young thief, foreign accent (“I think she was Romanian”), dark bob hair, elegantly dressed. «She said her name was Jasmine, but she is certainly a fictional name», recalls the professional, mocked while he was going to the notary for an appraisal. «I had just left the car park in Piazza Pertini – he says – when I was stopped by that girl, in her twenties, while she was examining the names on the license plates at the entrance of a building in Via Marsala. She asked me if I knew a certain lawyer, but her name meant nothing to me. She was looking for a lawyer because she had problems with her husband.” She looked really worried. And sincere. «I offered to help her: I should never have done it», Muti regrets.
The reconstruction
The engineer took out his cell phone to contact his trusted lawyer. “But she immediately interrupted me, suggesting that I leave her number because she would contact him later,” adds the professional. And so he did. «I took my diary out of my bag to note down the lawyer’s number – he explains – and perhaps it was at that moment that she robbed me. I remember that she offered to hold the diary while I wrote. Then, having received the piece of paper, she greeted me, thanking me with a kiss on the cheek.” The crafty thief immediately slipped away. A few minutes later, while the engineer was in Corso Mazzini, he noticed that his expensive watch was no longer on his wrist. He went back, but by then the girl had disappeared. It was 11 yesterday morning. The police, having received the complaint, are taking action to collect the videos from the public and private cameras located in the centre, in the hope of tracing the perpetrator of the attack. «I don’t understand how she could take the watch away from me without me realizing it – Muti despairs -. You must be a professional criminal.”
