Sunday 25 February 2024

It Appears That Some People Never Change,

if this bunch of criminals is to be believed, 


photograph La Repubblica, in Rome 6 OAPs, (Old Aged Pensioners), have been arrested, after carrying out several armed burglaries at post offices in Rome, 70-year-old Italo De Witt, nicknamed “the German”, Sandro Baruzzo, 68, and 77-year-old Raniero Pula all apparently led the gang, the three other experts, a key maker (66) to breach the various locks, and two bricklayers (51 and 56 years old) who handled “the hole” through which the gang entered the post offices, Italian authorities began investigating the gang’s activities after a post office robbery in May of last year when three individuals wearing masks, hats, and sunglasses so as not to be recognized, held the staff at gunpoint and managed to make off with 195,000 euros ($211,000), the experienced gang was finally caught on November 6, when they attempted to rob a post office on Via Calpurnio Pisone, oblivious to the fact that they were under police surveillance, as usual, the bricklayers made a hole in the wall and concealed it with plywood. That’s how three of the gang members entered the post office, but as they were getting ready to escape with 152,000 euros ($165,000), they were apprehended by the police, during the investigation, prosecutors learned that the three elderly leaders – De Witt, Pula and Baruzzo – rarely talked on the phone, rightly suspecting that police could be listening. Instead, they often met at an obscure bar to lay down their plans for the next operation, the full story is here, I should mention that all members had criminal records, but the leaders had particularly impressive records that went back all the way back to the 1970s, as I mentioned some people never change.


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