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March 10, 2021 Sixty-four people under investigation, 29 arrested in the act of crime for theft, 54 minors arrested, between 11 and 17 years old, not attributable and entrusted to their parents, 6 minors reported for false attestation of personal identity and the balance sheet of an activity carried out by the Carabinieri of the Compagnia Centro in the central areas of the capital on the pick-pocketing front.

All this resulted in an investigation, coordinated by the Rome Public Prosecutor's Office and by the Prosecutor's Office at the Rome Juvenile Court, launched in 2017, which led to another 4 arrests in the last hours.



The investigative activities, conducted by the Carabinieri of the San Lorenzo in Lucina Station with the help of the Romanian Police, which arrived in Italy at the request of the International Police Cooperation Service, resulted from the analysis of numerous thefts, especially of wallets and cell phones in boutiques. in the center or on the subway, scored by real gangs of children of Romanian nationality, mostly minors under the age of 14, therefore not attributable to the crimes committed. 



The investigations have ascertained that it was precisely the parents and closest relatives who sent them every day between Piazza di Spagna, Piazza del Popolo and the Colosseum to 'clean up' the pockets of the numerous victims, also removing them from school attendance.

The roles of the various suspects have been reconstructed, from recruiters to those who collected the money, a channel for receiving stolen objects and the methods of dividing the proceeds have been discovered.

According to what has been disclosed, light has been shed on a real criminal group, composed of families of Romanian nationality of Roma ethnicity, all linked by kinship, settled on the Roman coast mainly in the Municipality of Anzio from where every morning the various "batteries" of pickpockets.



The people traced in Italy were arrested and subjected to the precautionary measures of house arrest, the obligation of residence and presentation at the offices of the judicial police.

Some members of the association, who in the meantime have moved to Romania, are being captured by the Romanian Police and the International Police Cooperation Service.