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 where he was staying. trying to take , after having "secured" the ticket in a credit institution.
