The robbery of Carlos Sainz and security in Milan: a problem for all Italian cities?

From the podium to the robbery. This was Sunday of Carlos Sainza Ferrari driver who, after his third place at the Monza Grand Prix, returned to Milan and was approached by three men in front of his hotel in the city center who stole his watch, a Richard Mille model «Alexander Zverev» worth 500,000 euros. The pilot with the manager, others from his entourage and some passers-by chased and blocked them, between via Verri and via della Spiga, until the police intervened. The three will have to answer for robbery in competition.

Carlos Sainz’s is not the first case in Milan and beyond. One year ago, in Viareggio, Charles Leclerc, Sainz’s teammate saw a unique Richard Mille model disappear from his wrist. Also in the Lombard capital, a few days ago, Christian Vieri and Costanza Caracciolo they recounted the attempted theft of the phone with the trick of the sheet placed on top of the smartphone left on the table. The former footballer and his partner recognized the gesture and thwarted the theft.

Episodes, not the only ones, which make the mayor of Milan Sala say that there is work to be done on safety. «After that, everything that happens in Milan is overemphasized. Nonetheless, there is work to be done.” According to the mayor, today there is «a less safe world than in the past, just look at what is happening in all the cities of the world. But if you don’t understand the reasons why all this happens, you’re making a mistake. I don’t believe in repression alone, it is certainly necessary to control and repress, but it is not enough”. The mayor is also asking for help from the government, complaining about the reductions in police forces.

Is Milan really more dangerous than other cities? Are there more crimes in the Lombard capital? THE data of classify that The sun 24 hours makes every year on the crime indexreleased in October 2022, they say that Milan it is first in the absolute standings ahead of Rimini and Rome. However, the ranking is made on the basis of the complaints presented, therefore it does not count the crimes that remain undeclared.

Different positions for individual crimes. Milan is first for thefts (2943 reports per 100 thousand inhabitants) ahead of Rimini and Rome, then Bologna, Turin, Florence and Naples, and second for robberies (103 reports per 100 thousand inhabitants), between Rimini and Naples followed by Rome, Turin, Bologna, Genoa, Prato, Florence and Piacenza. Both theft and robbery are crimes against property, in the latter there is also a form of violence, an attack on a person to steal the property. In general, metropolitan areas are at the top, therefore large cities.

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We went to see him on Lake Como. We talked (with him and those close to him) about his very poor childhood, the crimes he committed and the search for redemption through music. “Now I’m changing. This is my example. I had a drinking problem, not anymore. I used to do robberies, now I make money with songs ».

The general data, those that the Ministry of the Interior published every August 15, tell of a general increase in Italy of these crimes. There were 14,979 robberies between 1 January 2022 and 31 July 2022, 15,486 in the same period of 2023. As regards thefts in the same months, they went from 539,920 to 554,975.