He had found her number on a dating site. So she started sending her increasingly insistent messages. Until the woman demanded 500 euros for the ‘annoyance’ of those constant messages. She was not satisfied with the first payment, demanding another one of the same amount: “If I don’t see the money
they ‘spit’ you on Facebook and cover the city with your photographs.”
A blackmail, to which the victim decided not to give in, reporting everything: and the victim in this case is a priest, parish priest in a church in Pavia. The woman, a 34-year-old, was arrested on charges of extortion: the judge has already validated her provision, releasing her from prison with the obligation to sign five times a week until the trial, scheduled for October.
The story – told by the Province of Pavia – is one of those that piques curiosity in small towns, but also in cities like Pavia. It all started about a month ago when the parish priest, browsing the Bakeca dating site, found a photo of the woman, Margareta Roxana Bolova, of Romanian origins but resident in the city for some time. In addition to her photo, however, she also finds her telephone number and from there begins the storm of messages to which the woman initially responds until, on May 27th, she writes to him to stop: “You are harassing and annoying me. “. The priest apologizes, but continues to write to her. This is where the request for 500 euros “for the inconvenience” starts.
The priest goes to the ATM, withdraws the money and meets the woman to whom he gives the money. Perhaps, at that point, the man was really scared of what could have happened, but it is the 34-year-old who raises the issue, asking for more money for a friend of hers “who knows everything” and threatening to let the whole city know about those messages. At this point, the priest goes to the police station, tells everything and is convinced by the investigators to set a trap: he pretends to accept the new request for money and shows up for the second appointment with the marked banknotes and with the plainclothes agents following him. his every move. When the money passed from one hand to the other, the handcuffs went off.
