Fassino and the first suspect 45 days ago. Pursued by security but disappeared –

Rita Cavallaro and Gianfranco Ferroni

April 28, 2024

The first time he would have mixed with the crowd, the second time they would have stopped him and he would then have to pay, the third time the complaint was filed. These are the adventures of Piero Fassino at the duty free in Terminal 1 of Fiumicino, which began regarding a month and a half ago and culminated on 15 April with the case for the theft of perfume. According to internal sources, the PD deputy therefore already has two precedents. The first time, Fassino would have benefited from the fact that the duty free was full of customers and would have headed for the exit with a perfume in his pocket. Once the anti-shoplifting alert was triggered, the security would have launched in pursuit, but he had already disappeared, blending in with the people. A couple of weeks later, when he entered the shop once more, the security, mindful of the previous episode, kept an eye on him. Fassino would have slipped another perfume into his pocket but, caught, he would have apologized, guaranteeing that he had no intention of stealing. So the duty free closed the matter, with the payment for the eau de toilette. Finally, on April 15th, Fassino returns to perfumery and is in the crosshairs. He pockets the Chanel box and heads for the exit, but security stops him. And the complaint is filed.

Libraries are full of stories dedicated to the (not very noble) art of the “disappearance of objects”: in on 7 December 2021 we talked regarding a person, evidently a kleptomaniac, capable of putting the homes of Roman VIPs and numerous fashion designer shops. It wasn’t Fassino, but a woman, also from the left. We wrote: “No one has ever reported the crimes, also due to the importance of the personality and roles played over the years.” Yes, because she is a lady who is “professionally impeccable in everyday life when she has to solve other people’s problems, but with a particular vice of hers, which is stealing”. When she returned to the same shop for the second time, the security “raised their antennas” avoiding a repeat theft and showing her the video of the previous “visit”: at that point, also thanks to the evident solvency of the subject, everything was sorted out with the payment for the luxury good looted in the past in the same store. A story that is often repeated, because according to what criminologists and security experts in the commercial sector say, «kleptomaniacs love to return several times to the spaces they know and where they have already “successfully” experimented with their attacks. But now almost all shops boast video recording services that identify the culprit and on the second visit the alert is triggered.”