We receive and publish a press release from the Public Prosecutor:
“In the past few days this Public Prosecutor’s Office has delegated the State Police – Flying Squad of Potenza to execute a precautionary custody order (issued by the Judge for Preliminary Investigations of Potenza) against the suspect of a young man resident in the Province of Naples.
He himself is seriously suspected of being the author of one aggravated fraud, which occurred in the center of Potenza in recent months, to the detriment of an elderly woman over 90 years old.
Specifically, according to the reconstruction of the investigators endorsed by the investigating judge but to be verified during the trial, the young man, pretending to be the victim’s son, he induced her to hand over to a fake courier everything the lady managed to scrape together at home, i.e. 1,700 euros in cash and various gold jewellery, including her wedding ring.
The identification of the young man was possible thanks to the investigation carried out by personnel from the Potenza Flying Squad who carried out analyzes on telephone traffic and video surveillance images present in the surroundings of the victim’s home.
It is about theyet another predatory episode committed in a serial manner to the detriment of elderly people which now occur almost daily in this district.
This circumstance requires not only maximum vigilance on the part of the state bodies responsible for guaranteeing the safety of citizens, but also particular attention on the part of all citizens and all families, who, for their part, can contribute to the prevention of these episodes by making their elderly aware of the risks they run and of the absolute necessity of not following up on requests for money from alleged relatives or alleged friends justified by the most varied emergency reasons.
The proceeding is currently pending in the preliminary investigation phase so the presumption of innocence applies until a final conviction is reached.”
