Pisa, 3 July 2024 – He stalked a very young out-of-town student by also installing a GPS system under her his car. At the beginning of May, a twenty-year-old woman, who temporarily lives in Pisa, turned to the Police Headquarters’ complaints office for the “continuous harassment suffered by an elderly neighbor”. A persecution – the officers reconstructed – that led to a serious state of “anxiety and stress”.
An Italian pensioner with no criminal record 83 years oldwho had helped her several times with small jobs around the house, gradually got closer to the girl and began to be more and more “insistent and annoying”.
The man, a former university research technician now retired, also boasted to her that he knew where the 20-year-old was at a particular time. of the day. “You walked five kilometers from here to there.”
Postal police in a stock photo
And he also told her that he could control it. personal life and his movements, claiming to have placed surveillance systems under his car to reconstruct his love life.
The police, in particular at that point the Flying Squad and its specialized section in dealing with gender-based violence crimes, he carried out several checks also with the help of a mechanic on the car, which was placed on a bridge to be able to investigate better, also because the old man had gone as far as to propose sexual relations to her, saying that he was a more “reliable and discreet” person than his young friends.
A situation considered “serious”. The Flying Squadin addition to psychologically assisting the student, has started several investigations with stakeouts, plainclothes and anonymous observation services and shadowing of the accused.
An operation that allowed the delivery to prosecutor’s office of Pisa a substantial dossier, “a detailed report” that reconstructed “with evident circumstantial gravity the repeated and serious conduct of the elderly man that constituted the crime of stalking”, writes the police themselves.
A framework that allowed to the Judicial Authority to adopt the precautionary measure of the ban on residence in the city of Pisa, a measure carried out in recent days, usually the ban on approaching is adopted.
The girl will no longer meet the old man. During the execution of the precautionary measure, the Pisa mobile detectives carried out a house search, with the help of the Operations Section cyber security of the postal police: the application for electronic tracking was found on the suspect’s smartphone. He was the one who confessed where the GPS tracking device connected to the same application was located: right under the victim’s car.
An. Cas.
