Scratch and win stolen, the 57-year-old goes to trial: "He was capable of understanding and wanting"
An appraisal had found Gaetano Scutellaro not to be prosecuted. But the investigating judge has requested new investigations that have overturned everything. The incredible story last September 3rd
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Gaetano Scutellaro , the 57-year-old accused of having stolen a winning scratch card worth 500 thousand euros from a 69-year-old tobacconist in via Materdei in Naples , will go to trial.
At first the man, who after the theft had escaped on a moped and had gone to the airport in Fiumicino with destination Canary Islands , was considered by an expert to be incapable of understanding and willing and therefore not prosecutable.
The judge for the preliminary hearing, however, requested a second psychiatric evaluation which led to diametrically opposite conclusions: the man is capable of understanding and willing and for this he will be judged by the competent court .
The fact dates back to last September 3 when a woman went to the betting shop in via Materdei buying the Scratch and Win which turned out to be a winner. Incredulous, she went back to the tobacconist's to ask for confirmation of her winnings . And it was at that moment that the unthinkable happened: when Scutellaro, husband of the tobacconist, realized he had the winning ticket in his hand, he grabbed it and ran away on a scooter, losing track before being tracked down to the Fiumicino airport where he was staying. trying to take a plane to Fuerteventura , after having "secured" the ticket in a credit institution.
"The computer systems we have developed have worked perfectly - Marcello Minenna, director general of the Customs and Monopoly Agency remembers in a press release from Agimeg -. We knew what the coupon was thanks to the fact that the tobacconist's husband, license holder, he used his cell phone to check the lucky coupon. Going back to his cell phone, he was traced to Fiumicino thanks to the collaboration with the Carabinieri and the Border Police ". The disbursement of the prize was initially blocked for security reasons but a few weeks later it was released from the Naples prosecutor's office .
The ticket was validated as a winner and Stefano Saracchi, the director of the Games of the Customs and Monopolies Agency, took care of the bureaucratic process and officially handed the ticket to the lady for the collection of the winnings .
(Unioneonline / D)
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