They suddenly arrived shortly after dinner time. They climbed over a back wall and then forced the window of the study on the ground floor. And they surprised a family while they were watching TV. Home robbers, this time not in the suburbs, but in Piazza Bologna, in a building that borders a police station. Nothing seems to stop the gangs that have been terrorizing Rome for months between 8pm and 10pm with dozens of home invasions. Shots from «A Clockwork Orange» like the one on Tuesday evening via Antonio Gallonioin an elegant building where at a certain point the condominium residents saw police and carabinieri patrols arrive: an 82-year-old tenant was beaten and injured in the arm with a screwdriver by one of the three bandits who entered the house.
Hospitalized for observation at San Giovanni
Giuseppe LM is still hospitalized at the San Giovanni hospital for observation. He has wounds on his face and cuts inflicted with that tool after reacting to the robbers. She was there with his wife and 56-year-old son in his apartment when the bandits arrived and threatened them. “Take us to where the safe is,” they would have ordered him. Also in this case, as in many of the other episodes that have occurred since the autumn of last year, there is the suspicion that the thugs knew perfectly well what to look for and above all what to find in the victims’ homes. In this circumstance, once again, a huge loot: 300 thousand euros in watches and jewellery, which were kept right in an armored container in the bedroom wall.
“Here they say that those bandits spoke with a Spanish accent”, explain some residents of the area. They too took to the streets on Tuesday evening as soon as the three attacked people raised the alarm. In addition to the carabinieri from the nearby station, officers from the Porta Pia police station also rushed to the scene and are now carrying out the investigations together with the investigators of the Flying Squad. An Ares 118 ambulance immediately transported the 82-year-old to hospital. “It looked like they had broken his arm”, the neighbors confirm again. His wife and son, who were interviewed by those investigating, were also in shock.
The suspect: bandits informed about the safe and loot
Forensics carried out a long inspection in their apartment, as well as on the wall that the robbers probably climbed over to reach the house on the ground floor. The action lasted a few minutes. The three had their faces covered and were armed with screwdrivers, which they may have used to unhinge the study window. A raid that left the tenants breathless. Only the 82-year-old attempted to fight back, but he was soon overwhelmed. He was in the main hall with his wife, while the son was surprised, according to his version, in another room. So the robbers would have fled following the same route they took to arrive. Video footage from some security cameras in the building and also in the nearby streets would have been acquired which may have filmed the criminals as they approached the building and then when they left. In this case, as in others, the complicity of a baseman who could have allowed the three, and South Americans, even if all investigative hypotheses are followed, to go without fail and without too many risks, cannot be ruled out.
