A Palma Campania a man was sued for having set on fire one ATM. A woman wanted to prevent her husband from using the family’s money to gamble and drained her checking account. When the man noticed the shortage, she set fire to the ATM. The 36-year-old was denounced on charges of damage by the carabinieri.
Palma Campania, account in red and set the ATM on fire
In order to prevent him from squandering his savings, the woman had started withdrawing money from the ATM to put it aside, preventing it from ending up in the slot machines, her husband’s true passion. But the man understood everything and, when he found himself broke, he spent the last euros he had to buy gasoline. In a moment he set fire to the ATM, the one of the branch from which he took his wife. The surveillance images betrayed him and the carabinieri of Palma Campania station have easily identified it. For the 36-year-old, with a clean record, a complaint for damage followed by fire.
