Palermo, targeted university students to rob them: arrested

PALERMO – He would have targeted university students by robbing them as they returned home in the area of ​​via Ernesto Basile, at the Santa Rosalia Village, in Palermo. The agents of the mobile team managed to trace the perpetrator of some robberies, the last of which was carried out on February 23, 2020, when a student was reached in the entrance hall of the building where she lives by a man who took her money away. A robbery very similar in ways and also in places to the one reported by two students in 2016. The policemen, based on the description provided by the victim, traced back to the 54-year-old man, also recognized as the author of the 2016 robbery. against two other university students and yielded a hundred euros. The man was tracked down in Florence and arrested. He is now under house arrest.