Moment Italian socialite, 65, wreaks deadly revenge on Moroccan mugger
This is the dramatic moment a woman wreaks fatal revenge as she slams her car into a mugger after he snatched her handbag.
Businesswoman Cinzia Del 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.
Del Pino, a well known socialite in the Italian coastal city of Viareggio, was identified through her Mercedes SUV’s number plate and immediately arrested by police just hours later.
In shocking CCTV leaked to local media, Naziki is seen walking past a shop front when Del Pino’s vehicle suddenly appears and rams into him at speed.
The car then reverses back and forwards four times before Del Pino – in high heeled shoes – is seen calmly getting out of her car, picking up her bag and driving away.
Paramedics were called to the scene and Naziki was rushed to hospital but he later died from his injuries.
Businesswoman Cinzia Del Pino, 65, (pictured) took the law into her own hands
Del Pino, a well known socialite in the Italian coastal city of Viareggio, was identified through her Mercedes SUV’s number plate
Del Pino admitted to police she had chased after him and had only wanted to get her bag back as it contained her house keys, phone and personal documents and has since been given house arrest.
She told police: ‘He had threatened to kill me with a knife. I was scared. I didn’t mean to kill him I just wanted my belongings back.
‘There were important documents in my bag and I couldn’t call the police because my phone was in there.’
Officers later revealed no knife had been found on Naziki and Del Pino was initially held in jail on suspicion of manslaughter before being freed under house arrest.
Her lawyer Enrico Marzaduri dismissed the video and said: ‘I understand from the autopsy that it was certainly the initial impact that proved fatal and there are no tyre marks on the body.
She told police: ‘He had threatened to kill me with a knife. I was scared. I didn’t mean to kill him I just wanted my belongings back’
In shocking CCTV leaked to local media, Naziki is seen walking past a shop front when Del Pino’s vehicle suddenly appears and rams into him at speed
‘She just wanted to stop him and was aiming for his legs. She is suffering for what she did and is feeling remorse for what happened.’
But the local archbishop monsignor Paolo Giulietti said: ‘Other than self-defence, the video shows astonishing behaviour.
‘How do you drive your car over a person’s body several times? How could we think that a quiet and esteemed lady, a capable entrepreneur, could carry out such an action?
‘Evil wins when it makes us evil: those who rejoice because this episode would be an episode of self-defence demonstrate how evil wins.
‘I say, let’s not rejoice, this is not self-defence, and it is not justice. Nothing, absolutely nothing can justify murder.
‘Not just because we live in a state of law. But because every person, in every situation they find themselves in, has the right to live.’
Del Pino admitted to police she had chased after him and had only wanted to get her bag back
Naziki’s family in an interview with Moroccan TV demanded ‘justice’
Italy’s deputy prime minister Matteo Salvini took a different view and wrote on Facebook: ‘This drama is the consequence of a crime. If the man who lost his life hadn’t been a delinquent this wouldn’t have happened.’
Naziki’s family in an interview with Moroccan TV demanded ‘justice’ and said: ‘Not even an animal is killed in the way our brother was. We call for the woman to be sent back to jail.
‘He was a good man and we want justice. Everyone who knows him will tell you that. She ran over him four times and then just calmly drove off when he was dying and didn’t even ask for help.’
Meanwhile a banner has appeared on a building site in Viareggio that read: ‘Who has money has power, the law is not equal for everyone.’
