BOLZANO. On Sunday afternoon, the Carabinieri of the Bolzano mobile radio section intervened in a well-known clothing store in the historic center for a reported attempted theft.
Immediately on site, two “Gazelles” carried out an investigation to reconstruct the dynamics of what happened: a 29-year-old customer of the shop was caught, by the special security guard of the business, hiding some items of clothing under his clothes .
Once past the cash register and the related anti-shoplifting barriers, the security guard attempted to stop the person in possession of the stolen goods but, at that moment, he was punched in the face. When the soldiers arrived, the robber, still present inside the shop, became agitated and, in an attempt to avoid police checks, first threw himself on the ground, then exercised active resistance by trying to free himself from the soldiers and tried to escape from the shop.
Promptly blocked and arrested, during the verbalization phase at the offices of the Radiomobile Section, the man verbally threatened the soldiers. At the end of the formalities, the Carabinieri took the young man to the prison, awaiting the validation judgement, held responsible for the crimes of improper robbery, personal injury, resistance and threat to a public official.