It was not Francesca Fambrini to steal his colleague’s gun in 2017 at the command of the municipal police of Lucca: the court of first instance in via Galli Tassi had already established it after the investigations that brought the municipal police inspector to trial on the hypothesis of aggravated theft and today the Court of Appeal of Florence reiterated it where the ssecond level of judgment. In fact, the inspector was once again acquitted of the charges by the courthouse with a full acquittal.
The facts date back to 2017, when an automatic pistol supplied to a colleague of Fambrini disappeared at the Lucca municipal police command.
Pistol stolen from the traffic policeman in command of the municipality, the inspector accused of stealing it was acquitted – Luccaindiretta
The weapon was then found 5 days later at the entrance to the headquarters with an intimidating message for the agent from whom it had been stolen. The Lucca Carabinieri took care of the investigation and the investigators’ work immediately took the direction that hypothesized that it was Inspector Fambrini who had pulled this nasty trick on his colleague. So in the end Fambrini found himself on trial risking a heavy sentence and perhaps even his job, while the colleague who had been assigned the Tanfoglio 9×21 pistol object of the theft, was sent to trial for failure to keep safe.
The officer from whom the weapon had been stolen was acquitted of failure to take custody and Fambrini, after the indictment of the public prosecutor Elena Leone, she was acquitted by the court of Lucca on the charge of theft. The sentence was appealed and today the matter that worried the inspector was definitively closed and now, after two acquittals, she can say she was completely unrelated to the facts.
The appeals court wanted to celebrate a new trial not limiting itself to examining the documents emerging from the first hearing, but also hearing one dozens of texts. The attorney general had once again asked for a conviction, but the judges deemed the prosecution system to be non-existent, clearing the inspector from Piazzale San Donato of all charges, assisted by the lawyer. Andrea Da Pratoboth from the hypothesis of having stolen the weapon from his colleague, and of having made it reappear and of being the author of the intimidating message that was found together with the gun, an expert opinion was also carried out on this last crime in the first degree calligraphic and which however confirmed Fambrini’s non-involvement in that note.
