LIVORNO. She was caught stealing food and other products from the shelves of Esselunga. A cleaner who worked inside the Viale Petrarca supermarket, closed to the public at the time, was reported for attempted theft. The episode occurred on the evening of Thursday 9 May, after the store had lowered its shutters (at 9pm, like every day in this period). The woman, an employee of a third-party company and not of the large-scale retail chain, was caught red-handed by the security guards on duty in the shop, who saw her steal basic necessities (but not only, according to what has been ascertained ) through the video surveillance systems installed in various points of the shopping centre, whose cameras cover practically all the aisles and also the spaces outside the checkouts.
For the Limito di Pioltello company, the relationship of trust with the related worker has broken down, and for this reason, on the afternoon of Friday 10 May, she was reported to the police station by the store manager for the crime of attempted theft. On the same evening, after the security guards had caught the woman stealing the products, the agents of the Flying Squad of the General Prevention and Public Rescue Office of the State Police intervened inside the supermarket, directed by the Chief Commissioner. Alessio Del Gigiawho had identified both the employee of the third-party company and the security guards themselves who, with camera images in hand, accused her of having stolen goods for sale from the shelves.
When the police arrived, the related employee was still on site and the goods, recovered by the store’s security staff who had witnessed the disputed episode and not found to be damaged, were then returned to the store manager of the company. Lombard chain. The manager of the store, having arrived at the Vittorio Labate barracks in Viale Boccaccio to file a complaint, brought the investigators the videos recorded by the supermarket cameras, tapes which in the past were also decisive for other episodes of theft which occurred in Viale Petrarca.
