Savage moment Italian socialite, 65, wreaks fatal revenge on a Moroccan mugger who ‘snatched her handbag’ – by slamming into him with her car before repeatedly running him over
This is the dramatic moment a woman takes revenge and crashes her car into a mugger after he steals her handbag.
Businesswoman Cinzia Dal Pino, 65, took the law into her own hands after the man, identified as Moroccan national Nourdine Naziki, 52, grabbed the bag from the open window of her car.
Dal Pino, a well-known socialite from the Italian coastal town of Viareggio, was identified by the license plate of her Mercedes SUV and arrested by police a few hours later.
Shocking surveillance footage leaked to local media shows Naziki walking past a shop when Dal Pino’s vehicle suddenly appears and crashes into him at high speed.
The car then drives backwards and forwards four times, after which Dal Pino – in high heels – calmly gets out of the car, picks up her bag and drives away.
Ambulances were called to the scene and Naziki was rushed to hospital, but later died of his injuries.
Businesswoman Cinzia Dal Pino, 65, (pictured) took the law into her own hands
Dal Pino, a well-known socialite in the Italian coastal city of Viareggio, was identified by the license plate of her Mercedes SUV
Dal Pino admitted to the police that she followed him and that she only wanted her bag back because it contained her house keys, phone and personal documents. She has been under house arrest ever since.
She told police: ‘He threatened to kill me with a knife. I was scared. I didn’t want to kill him, I just wanted my stuff back.’
‘There were important documents in my bag and I couldn’t call the police because my phone was in there.’
Officers later revealed that no knife was found on Naziki and that Dal Pino was initially jailed on suspicion of manslaughter, but was then placed under house arrest.
Her lawyer Enrico Marzaduri denied the video, saying: ‘I understand from the autopsy that it was certainly the first impact that was fatal and that there are no tire marks on the body.
She told police: ‘He threatened to kill me with a knife. I was scared. I didn’t want to kill him, I just wanted my stuff back.’
Shocking CCTV footage leaked to local media shows Naziki walking past a shop front when Dal Pino’s vehicle suddenly appears and drives into him at high speed
“She just wanted to stop him and she aimed for his legs. She suffers from what she did and regrets what happened.”
But local Archbishop Monsignor Paolo Giulietti said: ‘Beyond self-defence, the video shows astonishing behaviour.
‘How do you drive your car over a person’s body multiple times? How could we think that a calm and respectable lady, a capable entrepreneur, could perform such an action?
‘Evil wins when it makes us evil: For those who are happy that this episode would be an episode of self-defense, show how evil wins.
“I say, let’s not cheer, this is not self-defense, and it is not justice. Nothing, absolutely nothing can justify murder.
‘Not only because we live in a constitutional state. But because every person, in whatever situation, has the right to live.’
Dal Pino admitted to police that she followed him and only wanted her bag back
Naziki’s family demanded ‘justice’ in an interview with Moroccan television
Italy’s Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini had a different opinion, writing on Facebook: “This tragedy is the result of a crime. If the man who lost his life had not been a criminal, this would not have happened.”
Naziki’s family demanded “justice” in an interview with Moroccan TV, saying: “Not even an animal is killed the way our brother was killed. We call for the woman to be sent back to prison.”
“He was a good man and we want justice. Anyone who knows him will tell you that. She ran him over four times and then just calmly drove away as he was dying and didn’t even ask for help.”
Meanwhile, a banner has appeared on a construction site in Viareggio reading: ‘Whoever has money has power; justice is not equal for everyone.’