This is the dramatic moment a woman takes fatal revenge by crashing her car into a mugger after he snatched her handbag.
Businesswoman Cinzia Dal Pino, 65, took the law into her own hands after the man identified as Moroccan national Nourdine Naziki, 52, snatched her handbag from the open window of her car.
Dal Pino, a well-known socialite from the Italian coastal town of Viareggio, was identified by the number plate of her Mercedes SUV and arrested by police a few hours later.
In shocking CCTV footage leaked to local media, Naziki is seen walking past a shop when Dal Pino’s vehicle suddenly appears and rams him at full speed.
The car then reverses and drives forward four times before seeing Dal Pino, wearing high heels, calmly get out of her car, pick up her bag and drive away.
Paramedics were called to the scene and Naziki was rushed to hospital but later died from his injuries.
Businesswoman Cinzia Dal Pino, 65 (pictured), took justice into her own hands
Dal Pino, a well-known socialite from the Italian coastal town of Viareggio, was identified through the license plate of her Mercedes SUV.
Dal Pino admitted to police that he had been chased and only wanted to get his bag back, as it contained his house keys, phone and personal documents, and has since been placed under house arrest.
She told police: ‘He had threatened to kill me with a knife. I was scared. I didn’t want 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.’
Officials later revealed that no knife had been found on Naziki and that Dal Pino was initially detained on suspicion of murder before being released under house arrest.
His lawyer, Enrico Marzaduri, dismissed the video, saying: ‘From the autopsy I understand that it was most likely the initial impact that was 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 want to kill him, I just wanted my belongings back.”
In a shocking security camera leaked to local media, Naziki is seen walking past a shop when Dal Pino’s vehicle suddenly appears and rams him at full speed.
“She just wanted to stop him and was aiming for his legs. She is suffering for what she did and feels remorse for what happened.”
But the local archbishop, Monsignor Paolo Giulietti, said: ‘Apart from self-defence, the video shows shocking behaviour.
How can you drive a car over a person’s body several times? How can you think that a quiet, respectable lady, a capable businesswoman, could do such a thing?
‘Evil triumphs when it makes us evil: those who rejoice that this episode would be an episode of self-defense demonstrate how evil triumphs.
“Let’s not rejoice, this is not self-defense, this is not justice. Nothing, absolutely nothing, can justify murder.
“Not only because we live in a state governed by the rule of law, but because every person, in whatever situation they find themselves, has the right to live.”
Dal Pino admitted to police that he had been chasing him and that he only wanted to get his bag back.
Naziki’s family in an interview with Moroccan television demanded ‘justice’
Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini took a different view, writing on Facebook: “This drama is the consequence of a crime. If the man who lost his life had not been a criminal, this would not have happened.”
Naziki’s family, in an interview with Moroccan television, demanded “justice” and said: “Not even an animal has been killed like our brother. We ask that the woman be sent back to prison.”
“He was a good man and we want justice. Anyone who knows him will tell you that. She ran him over four times and then just walked away when he was dying and didn’t even call for help.”
Meanwhile, a banner appeared on a construction site in Viareggio reading: “Whoever has money has power, the law is not equal for everyone.”
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