Warranty interrogation, before the investigating judge Raffaele De Florio, for the three criminals who on Tuesday morning attempted to rob the branch of the San Geminiano and San Prospero bank, holding 5 employees and 3 customers hostage, including the Prefecture’s press officer, as explains RiminiToday. The robbers, in addition to the charge of multi-aggravated robbery, were also charged with kidnapping which carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison. The group, made up of a 63-year-old and a 28-year-old from Naples (assisted by the lawyer Andrea Guidi) and a 66-year-old from Turin (assisted by the lawyer Enrico Graziosi) explained to the magistrate that they left Turin that same morning to go to Pescara ” looking for a job for the summer season”. Having arrived in Rimini, a city they were visiting for the first time, they found themselves in front of the credit institution and “without having planned anything” they decided to rob the branch.
A coup, therefore, which would have been staged in a few minutes completely unaware of being in the heart of the historic center and a few steps from the police station and the police station. “We did something stupid”, they candidly admitted before the judge, reiterating however that they never intended to harm the employees and customers held hostage. At the end of the hearing, the lawyers of the suspects asked for house arrest for their clients as the two older ones have health problems while the younger one appears to have a clean criminal record with the investigating judge who reserved the decision.
The arrival of the police
The employees managed to trigger the alarm which within a few minutes brought out all the available patrols of the Army soldiers who surrounded the building. The criminals, looking at the credit institution’s cameras, realized that they were now trapped and, having seen all the escape routes “burnt”, they had no choice but to surrender and hand themselves over to the police.
