The thieves’ batteries are unleashed: 5 hits in a few hours between Salerno, Nocera, Pontecagnano and Baronissi

Five shots in a few hours – three at bars and tobacconists and the others at a supermarket and therapy center – occurred within a 20 kilometer radius with the “epicentre” of Salerno. The capital and its province are now prey to gangs of thieves who cut the shutters of the premises with portable flex, take away scratch cigarettes, stamps, cash registers, safes and everything of value inside of activities. And there was proof that there are multiple gangs at work last night in Salerno: at the same time, in fact, two different groups went into action.
The escalation of thefts. The first episode of the latest raids on Monday night, in Baronissi: the tobacco shop in via Trinità was targeted by criminals. In the middle of the night, the thieves went into action taking away scratch cards, money and of course cigarettes. On Wednesday night, however, another episode in the Agro with the theft from the tobacconist bar in the central Via Garibaldi (corner of Corso Vittorio Emanuele) in Nocera Inferiore, just over 300 meters away from the A3 junction. Then the episodes in the capital. The script is the usual: at 2.30, a dark-coloured car with four people on board stopped in front of the Coscia tobacco bar, in Pastena, not far from the entrance to the ring road: four hooded people and with the usual miner on the forehead they cut the shutter of the place in via Medaglie d’Oro and took away money, the cash register, stamps, scratch cards and cigarettes. Action time: between four and five minutes.
«Initially they hit the window with hammers because, probably not being local, they thought they were going in and that this was the entrance – stated the owner of the bar -. Instead, they then realized the shutter which they opened with a flex and entered by cutting it in two.” All just before the fish shop opened at three in the morning.
At 2.37am yesterday, evidently another gang, with two different cars, this time made up of eight thieves, used their portable flex to cut through the barrier on the road which leads to the Conad supermarket in Via Delle Calabrie, still very close to freeway roads. fast: in record time, they opened a side door of the room with a crowbar, entered the office area, took away a safe and then ran away. Total operation time just over two minutes. Yesterday afternoon, then, the news arrived of a new theft inside the “Nonno Emilio” center in Pontecagnano Faiano: in fact, the saddles just purchased after a previous robbery were taken away to allow the users of the structure to carry out the hippotherapy.

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