Viterbo – Several cars and police officers involved – The robbery costing over 1800 euros yesterday morning on the highway – The two petrol station attendants beaten and shot with a gun in hospital
Viterbo – (bb) – On the run after a robbery with injuries, criminals chased and stopped on Cassia Bis. A moment before they managed to make Rome disappear.
Criminals stopped on Cassia bis
The escape of the two robbers who yesterday morning, around 8.30, carried out a robbery at the petrol station located on the highway, in the direction of Vetralla, immediately after the Bagni road exit, only lasted a few hours. The two, in the car in which they had driven away, were stopped after a long chase on Cassia bis. Just before arriving in the capital. At kilometer 9, near the exit for Formello. Several police cars on site, with officers in uniform and plain clothes.
At the moment it is unclear whether they still had the loot with them or if they had gotten rid of it somehow. What is certain is that, after robbing the petrol station and attacking the two young petrol station attendants on duty, they attempted to cover their tracks.
The police on site
The attack occurred, as mentioned, yesterday morning around 8.30. The two criminals, according to what was reconstructed also thanks to the testimony of the victims, would have waited, hidden behind a gate, for the young employee to come out of the booth with the proceeds and then they would have hit him. With a wooden bar and a gun. Maybe a dog repeller. Weapons which were then both abandoned on the asphalt.
The gun used to attack the petrol stations
The young man ended up in the emergency room due to his injuries. And with him also his colleague, who rushed to his defense, but was unable to do anything. The traffic police officers, the police officers of the flying squad and the flying squad and the scientific section intervened on site yesterday morning for all the findings of the case.
The loot was 1820 euros.
The police on site
– Petrol attendant beaten and hit with the butt of a gun to steal the takings, robbers on the run
Presumption of innocence
In the Italian criminal system the presumption of innocence applies until the final sentence. Presumption of innocence which is based on article 27 of the Italian constitution according to which a person “is not considered guilty until finally convicted”.
June 13, 2024
