Extorts money and threatens a priest, a 49-year-old arrested

He attempted to extort money from a priest of Castellammare di Stabia - municipality of Metropolitan City of Naples - first threatening him and then squeezing his hands around his neck.

Consequently, the carabinieri of the company of Torre Annunziata have arrested a 49-year-old man, of which no other details have been provided, already known to the police, in execution of an application order of house arrest issued by the investigating judge of the local court at the request of the Torrese prosecutor.

The investigations, carried out by the Arma soldiers of the Castellammare di Stabia station, made it possible to collect serious evidence of guilt against the suspect regarding the commission of an attempted extortion against the priest.

According to what was ascertained by the investigators, the 49-year-old would have tried to extort money from the parish priest while he was in church, uttering threatening sentences against him and subsequently shaking his hands around the neck of the priest, who had tried to calm him and bring him back to reason.