He pretends kidnapping to extort 1,500 euros from his parents: "I wanted to do like Lapo in New York"
The 35-year-old was denounced along with his two accomplices, this is how it was discovered
He faked a kidnapping to collect the ransom money from his parents, 1,500 euros he needed to pay off a drug debt.
A 35-year-old man from Seregno (Monza) was denounced by the carabinieri for simulating a crime, together with two friends. "Mom, dad, help me, two Calabrians took me hostage, they want the money", so the man terrified his 60-year-old parents, who immediately turned to the carabinieri thinking that their son, a drug addict, had an unsettled debt with dangerous criminals.
"If you want to see your whole child again, you have to pay," one of the accomplices said in one of the phony ransom calls. With the help of the military, the 60-year-old couple arranged the exchange of money and, last night, the operation took place.
Following mum and dad in civilian clothes, the military, however, met the 35-year-old on the street, while he was walking peacefully alone, and stopped him, asking where his captors were, a question that he was unable to answer.
Shortly after they stopped a car, carrying a 38-year-old of Neapolitan origins and a 49-year-old from Brianza, with a police background, where they recovered the cell phone of the alleged kidnapped. Discovered the scam, all three were reported.
"I wanted to do like Lapo in New York," the man told the police.
(Unioneonline / L)
