Thefts on trains and in stations, three arrests and 11 reports

They raided suitcases and backpacks. Operation of the railway police

Genoa – Taken the band of marauders who raided suitcases and backpacks on trains, stations and railway parking lots. The judicial team of the railway police of Genoa arrested three people, two young men aged 19 and 20, of Moroccan origin, and a 29-year-old Palestinian accused of having carried out over twenty thefts between Genoa and the east. The investigations coordinated by the prosecutor Giovanni Arena were triggered after the theft from a ballistics expert in the Chiavari station of two pistols later recovered by the police.

The modus operandi is definitely consolidated. Two of the thieves got on the train at the previous stop while the third one on arrival at the station knocked forcefully on the victim’s glass to distract him. At that moment the two grab the luggage.

The three struck above all towards commuters and tourists. As part of the investigation the railway police has eleven other people are also being investigated, all of North African origin, who participated in the thefts.