A bag thief who was run over and killed by an Italian socialite was a known criminal who police had previously tried to deport, it has emerged.
Businesswoman Cinzia Dal Pino, 65, took brutal revenge after the man identified as Moroccan national Nourdine Naziki, 52, grabbed her handbag from the open window of her car.
Shocking CCTV footage leaked to local media shows the moment Dal Pino then chased down Naziki and ran him over four times with her Mercedes SUV.
In a bizarre twist, rather than calling police or paramedics, Dal Pino then calmly returned to the restaurant where she had been dining with friends before the attack to bring back an umbrella she had borrowed, local media reports.
Naziki’s family in Morocco has now spoken of their horror at the incident, saying that justice must be served and slamming Italian authorities for placing Dal Pino under house arrest rather than in jail.
‘Not even an animal is killed in this way,’ his sisters told Moroccan channel Chouf TV, adding: ‘We ask for justice for our brother, Cinzia Dal Pino must remain in prison.’
Dal Pino has been charged with voluntary homicide and is wearing an electronic ankle tag as she remains under house arrest.
Her lawyer Enrico Marzaduri said that his client is agonising over what happened and did not intend to kill Naziki, and had only wanted to stop him making off with her bag and belongings.
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‘She didn’t want to kill,’ he said, adding that what happened ‘went beyond her wishes. She feared that the man could have used her house keys and documents in her bag.’
He added that she worried that her keys and personal information would be used by the robber to carry out more crimes against her.
Police had been monitoring Naziki in the lead up to his death and had wanted to repatriate him, but authorities had not responded to their requests, meaning he had remained at large in Viareggio.
Dal Pino, a well known socialite in the Italian coastal city, was identified through her SUV’s number plate and arrested by police just hours later.
