The Carabinieri of the mobile radio unit of Viareggio (Lucca), supported by soldiers of the provincial command of Naples, Caserta and Milan, arrested 4 people , three men and a woman, recipients of a restrictive precautionary measure requested by the Lucca prosecutor's office and issued by the investigating judge: the four are under investigation for various reasons for the robbery of a precious watch carried out in Viareggio , on April 18 of a year ago, against the Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc .
Leclerc was robbed in the Darsena in Viareggio, on Easter Monday evening 2022, of a rare Swiss watch of great value . According to what emerged from the inventory of the investigations, it was a Richard Mille Rm 67-02, a luxury chronograph for which it is impracticable to give a real price. The only comparison available with one of its prototypes sold in 2021 at auction for around 2 million Swiss francs, almost 2 million euros today.
To snatch it from Leclerc's wrist a person who would have approached him with the excuse of taking a photo.
According to the investigations by the carabinieri of Viareggio, the four arrested, all originating from the historic center of Naples, already known to the forces of order, would be responsible for both the conception and the material execution of the robbery.
The military officers traced the suspects both by acquiring the many video surveillance images - both public and private - and testimonies with contextual photographic identifications .
Two material perpetrators of the coup , who would have moved with a large-engined scooter registered to a figurehead while two other accomplices , a 39-year-old and a 29-year-old, would have traveled on a SUV rented in Naples. In particular, the couple aboard the car, the investigators hypothesize, would have provided support to the accomplices traveling on the scooter, first dealing with the victim's shadow, from Forte dei Marmi to Viareggio, and then facilitating their escape.
The group would then leave for Naples.
In relation to two of those arrested, the investigators explained, they also collected elements for the attempted robbery of a 40 thousand euro watch which took place in Forte dei Marmi again on 18 April last, to the detriment of a young resident of Lucca who was also beaten: the the blow failed due to the resistance of the victim and the intervention of some passers-by.
Two of the arrested were also charged with a robbery that took place at Forte dei Marmi in August 2021 against a French tourist: the victim was threatened with a pistol with which blank shots were also fired and an 80,000 euro watch was taken away from her .
During the execution of the pre-trial detention measure, the military seized 23 thousand euros in cash from one of the suspects and two valuable watches whose provenance, currently unjustified, will be investigated.
(Unioneonline/vl)
