The State Police reported a 46 years old originally from the province of Brindisi because he was allegedly responsible for the crime of causing alarm and simulating a crime.
Last May, the staff of the cManduria office was alerted to a robbery committed against a courier while he was traveling along the state road that connects the Messapian municipality to Francavilla Fontana.
An episode which, due to the way it was told, caused a stir and social alarm.
The victim told investigators he was approached by three armed men and misrepresented by full-face helmets that would robbed, taking away his personal effects and cash collected during the day equal to over 2 thousand euros.
The policemen’s investigations, also supported by the inspection of the places and the viewing of some images of the video surveillance systems scattered throughout that area, they would soon reveal numerous gaps in the courier’s story.
The latter, listened to in the following days and put in front of obvious inconsistencieswould have admitted that he had faked being the victim of the robbery because he had lost the sum of the daily collection.
The presumption of innocence for the suspect remains valid until the sentence becomes final.
