They pretend to be deaf and dumb and pocket 1200 euros in alms. On Wednesday morning, Flying Squad personnel reported four foreign citizens, two men and two women aged between 19 and 24, originally from Romania, for the alleged crime of fraud in competition with each other. GlThe agents intervened at the “I Fenicotteri” shopping center after a report about the presence of two women who, pretending to be deaf and dumb, were asking for money from customers who entered the centre.
The police, recalling very recent similar events committed by citizens of Eastern Europe, in particular on the evening of June 10th in the central Piazza Yenne, identified a car with Romanian license plate in the parking area of the shopping center and proceeded to identify the occupants . DDuring the search of the vehicle the officers found an envelope with the fake fundraising forms plus a crumpled one which showed signatures, postal codes and city names and also the sums received as a donation by unsuspecting citizens. The sum of the amounts indicated in the form amounted to 270 euros. Furthermore, a payment receipt was also found, for an amount of 450 euros, made by one of the people arrested in favor of his father. La personal search carried out on the two couples led to the discovery of a further 347 euros, while in the subsequent search of some campers in use by them the sum of 560 euros was found, divided into banknotes of various denominations. Overall, the sum of approximately 1200 euros was found and seized, believed to be the proceeds of the scam. TOAt the end of the investigations, the four were reported in a state of freedom for the alleged crime of fraud in collaboration with each other.
