In the early hours of this morning 24 May, between the provinces of Cuneo and Asti, the Carabinieri of the Alba Company, with the help of the Mondovì company and the Provincial Command of Asti, executed a precautionary custody order for of six subjects, all Italian, held responsible for complicity in the theft of copper and ferrous material.
They were subjected to house arrest and the obligation to report to the judicial police issued by the GIP of the Court of Asti, at the request of the local Public Prosecutor’s Office
The restrictive measure arises from an investigation activity, called “Copper”, started in October 2023 by the Carabinieri of the Operational Unit of the Carabinieri Company of Alba and of the Santo Stefano Belbo Carabinieri Station and also conducted through the examination of the images of video surveillance of the municipal plant of Santo Stefano Belbo, which made it possible to immediately identify the vehicles used by the gang and to prove the operation of some of them, dedicated to the commission of thefts of copper and steel, stolen from a school complex, a shopping center and private homes.
The group had its operational headquarters in Asti and moved easily between the provinces of Asti and Cuneo, with an uncommon mastery of the territory. The municipalities in which the crimes were committed are Santo Stefano Belbo and some municipalities in the Asti hinterland.
THE INVESTIGATIONS – The investigations, in particular, demonstrated how the suspects, with a precise division of well-defined roles and tasks, reached the place to be plundered on board two cars and with extreme rapidity removed the material of interest both outside and inside. of the building, in the latter case by forcing doors and windows to gain access. The order notified to the suspects alleges the commission of 6 thefts which, it is estimated, yielded a sum of between 50 and 70,000 euros.
THE MODUS OPERANDI At the end of the execution of the measures, which saw around 50 carabinieri employed, 3 of those arrested were subjected to house arrest at their respective homes, while another 3 were subjected to the obligation to report to the PG; two other alleged accomplices were released in a state of freedom.
