They are all more or less famous in the field of robberies and thefts using the hole technique. Six Roman criminals, old acquaintances of the police in the capital’s underworld circles, were arrested by agents of the Flying Squad and the Cyber Security Operations Center of Lazio, coordinated by the Prosecutor’s Office, on charges of criminal conspiracy to commit armed robberies.
The 75-year-old leader of the gang was acting as a lookout
At the head of the gang was a 75-year-old who acted as a lookout, together with a 70-year-old and a 66-year-old who instead carried out the hits. The stages of the robberies were filmed several times by the internal and external cameras of the targeted branches. Inside the organization each had a specific roleso much so that a 68-year-old convicted felon was in charge of reproduce the back door keys of the postal agencies, while two other 50 53 year olds dug at night and on weekends holes in the walls communicating with other rooms in order to allow the accomplices to surprise the employees who were inside the agencies from behind.
Two failed shots at Tuscolano and Setteville
Mobile investigators accuse the group of a robbery committed on May 3rd in the San Giovanni district which paid off almost 200 thousand euros stolen from the ATM that the employees were loading and others two attempted attacks in Tuscolano and Setteville di Guidoniaboth of which failed thanks to the intervention of the police with the arrest of those responsible in the act.
Among those arrested Italo De Witt «the German»
Among those arrested is Italo De Witt, 70 years old, known as “the German”, already close to Manlio Vitale, known as “er gnappa”, a historic exponent of the Magliana Band, author of the attack 43 years ago at the Credito Italiano agency in Piazza di Spagnawhere he showed up dressed elegantly and at gunpoint, together with some accomplices, took 15 people held hostage after entering the branch with a set of fake keys during his lunch break. An assault remained in the memory of the older policemen, like that to an armored van in Torrice, in the province of Frosinone, again in those years, for which he was accused with six accomplices. In that case the loot it was even of three billion and 265 million lire.
The others are now in prison
Now, among others, they have also been arrested with him Raniero Pula75 years old, at the top of the organization, e Sandro Baruzzo, of 66, both of whom have already ended up at the center of investigations for thefts and robberies. Then with them Antonio Talinucci, of 66, accused by the Carabinieri between 2011 and 2014 of attacks on homes and jewelery shops between Rome and Calabria: within the gang he had the role of replicate keys. The other two were the “bricklayers” Tonino Cornazzani and Luciano Di Luca, 50 and 53 years old.
