All of Italy had talked about him: it was September 2021 when Gaetano Scutellaro, a Neapolitan tobacconist, had stolen a half-million-euro scratch card from a customer and fled on a motorbike. The capture then took place in Fiumicino.
Now the man, after the outcome of a psychiatric report according to which at the time of the fact he was "partially incapable of understanding and willing", is released from prison and has been placed under house arrest to receive the appropriate treatment and awaiting the process.
The case occurred in the area of via Materdei. In the tobacconist's made out to relatives of Scutellaro, a 77-year-old bought a coupon and, incredulous, asked the man behind the counter to check the actual winnings of 500 thousand euros. He, with an excuse, had slipped it in his pocket, had gone to the back and had gone away on a scooter. Immediately the hunt for the fugitive had begun, blocked by the police at Fiumicino airport. He had turned to the agents to report that he was actually the victim of a slander, as he believed he was the owner of the coupon himself.
The investigations then ascertained the truth and the woman was able to collect her winnings.
The defender of Scutellaro had immediately advanced the hypothesis of the inability to understand and want, and the report proved him right.
(Unioneonline / ss)
