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Grandma Gina, 80 years old, is one of the Cremona victims of the South American gang defeated by the Cremona police who identified i main perpetrators of 35 thefts committed not only in Cremona and its province, but also in other cities in Lombardy and in other regions such as Emilia and Piedmont. A 30-year-old Peruvian, for whom the Flying Squad carried out precautionary detention in prison, would be the leader.
He was there too, on May 26 last yearwhen the elderly woman from Cremona, on her way back to the city, stopped to do some shopping at Famila Superstore supermarket in Manerbio. She had been in the parking lot robbed of the bag she had placed on the car seat. The technique used for all shots is that of coinswhich consists of throwing coins on the ground inviting the victims to pick them up to distract them and steal the bags left in the car or hanging from the shopping trolley.
“I heard a knock on the window,” said the old woman. “I didn’t even see the person. A voice told me that I had dropped some coins, and it was plausible, because my purse was not completely closed. Then I heard the door slam and at that point I thought about it and became suspicious. But I was in a tailspin, it was as if time had stopped. Then suddenly it was approached a man on a powerful motorcycle. She told me not to worry because she would chase them. He was a policemanand those words gave me confidence.”
“I heard the motorbike running,” the old woman continued to say, “and I heard something like a warm embrace from the people who had gathered around me. I told myself that I had to have the strength to face that moment“. The police, after a long and dangerous chase, managed to catch the criminals. During the hunt between the guard and the robbers, two policemen were injured, fortunately slightly. “When they took me to the police station,” said grandmother Gina, “I suffered, I felt sorry for those officers. They told me they had taken them, but it was a tough fight. I often called to find out how they were and I even stopped by the police station because I felt grateful towards these special people. The police replied that the important thing was that I hadn’t been hurt. I also wrote a letter of thanks to Dr. Marco Masiahead of the Flying Squad (the manager currently runs Mobile in Rimini, ed), for having carried out, together with his men, his duty with high professional ability“.
For a while, Grandma Gina no longer went shopping. “Then I thought,” she explained, “and I told myself I had to get back to normal“.
From that moment on, precisely to demonstrate his genuine gratitude, the pensioner from Cremona brings cakes, pastries, chocolates, ice cream cakes, biscuits and local bread and salami to the police station. “Simple gestures to express my thanks to these agents, my special people.”
Sara Pizzorni
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