Kidnapping and mistreatment. These are the charges that a seasonal cook originally from Bari, but resident in Bellaria Igea Marina, must answer for, accused of having kept his roommate chained to the radiator for two days.
The 50-year-old, as reported by the Rimini newspapers, tied the 43-year-old, who had rented him a room in his apartment two years ago, to the radiator in the living room with a metal chain and two ankle locks . The man was freed only when he managed to throw a notebook out of the window with the words "help, he tied me up, call the police" written on it.
On Wednesday, the military intervened and arrested the jailer, who appeared before the investigating judge yesterday. According to what was reconstructed before, he had taken the upper hand on his guest by stopping to pay the rent, sleeping in the master bedroom and relegating the 43-year-old to the sofa. Then he had started to keep him subjugated with threats and insults that often and willingly had resulted in physical aggression .
Once he even took a red-hot iron from the fireplace and branded his hand, then tied him up with electric wires and beat him while he was sleeping. He forced him to play a sadistic game with a bricklayer's mallet, making him put his hand on a marble slab while he tried to hit it. "I'll call the Albanians to kill you," he told him to prevent him from asking for help or rent money. The diary was found by a cousin who lives next door. That's how the police were reported.
(Unioneonline/D)
