Florence, August 5, 2023 – The alleged gang that managed the abusive rentals all’ex Astor he used baseball bats to threaten non-payers. Poor people looking for a roof in the occupied hotel were asked for rents that could go up to 700 euro for a room or so. Room in which people slept, ate, piled up their clothes.
Missing child, uncle arrested
The investigation by the District Anti-Mafia Directorate of Firenze which led to four arrests, including the uncle of little Kata, the missing child, lifts the veil on the hell of the former Astor even further, where oppression, threats, were daily bread.
The story is strongly intertwined with the disappearance of the little girl, which took place last June 10th. Someone may have kidnapped the little girl in the context of the battle between the gangs who wanted to have control of the former Astor. Four measures catuelari in prison. Among these are the arrests of Carlos Martin De La Colina Palomino, 37 years old, Peruvian. He would have an important role as “head” in the management of abusive rents of the structure.
But also, and this could also be important for the investigation into Kataleya’s disappearance, Abel Alvarez Vasquez, 29 years old, uncle of the girl, brother of Kata’s mother. He was the last to see the baby before her disappearance. He, according to the investigation into the rents of the former Astor, would have had a role in the collection and management of the rooms.
Among the charges for all four are those of extortion, attempted extortion and robbery, committed between November 2022 and on May 28, 2023as well as attempted homicide of grievous bodily harm, committed on the same day, against the occupants of the facility squatted in September 2022 by Peruvian and Romanian nationals.
“Base crimes extortionate and robbery, from what has been reconstructed, were committed with the use of threats”, reads a statement from the Florence prosecutor’s office.
2023-08-05 18:30:00
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