It was not Francesca Fambrini to steal his colleague’s gun in 2017 at the command of municipal police of Lucca: the Court of First Instance of via Galli Tassi has already determined this following the investigations that brought the municipal police inspector to trial on charges of aggravated theft, and today the Court of Appeal of Florence further confirmed it during The second level of judgement. In fact, the inspector was once again acquitted by the courthouse with a complete acquittal.
The events date back to 2017, when an automatic pistol belonging to a colleague of Fambrini disappeared from Lucca’s municipal police headquarters.
Gun stolen from the traffic policeman at the municipal command, the inspector accused of theft was acquitted – Luccaindiretta
The weapon was then found 5 days later at the entrance to the headquarters with an intimidating message for the officer from whom it had been stolen. The investigations were conducted by the Carabinieri of Lucca and the detectives immediately began to suspect that Inspector Fambrini was responsible for the theft. As a result, Fambrini ended up on trial, risking a heavy sentence and perhaps even his job, while the colleague who had been assigned the Tanfoglio 9×21 pistolthe object of the theft, was brought to trial for failure to keep safe.
The officer from whom the weapon had been stolen was acquitted of the charge of failure to take custody and Fambrini, after the prosecutor’s harangue Elena Leone, she was acquitted of theft charges by the court of Lucca. The sentence was appealed and today the story came to a definitive end, reassuring the inspector that now, after two acquittals, she can definitively declare herself extraneous to the facts.
The appeals court chose to celebrate a new trialnot only examining the evidence that emerged from the first hearing, but also hearing one dozens of witnesses. The attorney general again asked for a conviction, but the judges considered the accusatory evidence insufficient, acquitting the inspector of Piazzale San Donato, defended by the lawyer, of all charges. Andrea Da Prato, both for the accusation of having stolen the weapon from his colleague, and of having made it reappear and of being the author of the intimidating message found with the gun. Regarding this last crime, a handwriting analysis was also carried out which however confirmed that Fambrini did not belong to that ticket.
