Rome: pickpockets unleashed on the subway, 12 arrests in a few hours

Twelve people were arrested during the checks that the Carabinieri intensified in the historic center of Rome. These are largely pickpockets identified and stopped on the A and B Metro lines, the ones most frequented by tourists. A phenomenon that seems unstoppable and continues to claim victims among tourists. And in fact, in via IV Novembre, the carabinieri of the Rome San Lorenzo in Lucina station arrested three women of Romanian origin, aged between 19 and 23, caught red-handed immediately after having taken possession of the wallet, in concert with each other. of a Lithuanian tourist. In Via del Monte Oppio, however, the Carabinieri of the Piazza Venezia command arrested a 33-year-old Algerian man, without a fixed address, already known to the police, who was surprised by the military after having removed the bag from an American woman. The soldiers of the Rome Vittorio Veneto station, during a targeted service on the Metro A line, at the Barberini stop, arrested a man and a woman, South Americans, already known to the police, blocked red-handed in an attempt to remove a wallets from a Polish tourist’s bag.

The anti-pickpocketing activities organized to combat the sadly known phenomenon on the A and B metro lines by the Rome Parioli carabinieri company allowed the soldiers of the Rome Salaria, Rome Viale Eritrea, Rome Viale Libia and Rome Piazza Bologna stations to arrest, in a few hours, 6 people, including 2 women, caught red-handed, in separate operations, while they lured and subsequently took possession of the personal effects of some tourists on board the trains. All the victims of committed or attempted theft filed a regular complaint and the arrests were all validated.

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