The Carabinieri of the Monserrato station reported a 47-year-old unemployed man known to the police for theft by snatching.

Thanks to testimonies and images recorded by the municipal video surveillance system, the carabinieri were able to reconstruct two episodes in which the man encounters quite mature women on the street, evaluates them as easy targets, goes back and gets behind them, tears off the their purse and runs away.

One of the muggings occurred in Via del Redentore on October 2nd against a sixty-five-year-old pensioner from Monserrato. The other the previous day in via Sorgono: the victim was a 61-year-old, also local.

(Unioneonline/D)