Moment socialite repeatedly runs over mugger after he snatched her handbag

This is the shocking moment an Italian socialite appears to allegedly run over a mugger several times after he snatched her handbag.

Socialite Cinzia Dal Pino, 65, last week appeared to run down a man, later identified as Moroccan national Nourdine Naziki, 52, after he snatched a bag from inside her car. CCTV footage leaked to local media showed Naziki walking past a shop in the coastal city of Viareggio, about 89 miles south east of Genoa, when Dal Pino’s Mercedes SUV slammed into him.

The driver then reversed the car and drove forward four times before a woman, allegedly Dal Pino, was seen calmly exiting the vehicle and picking up her bag before driving away. Paramedics rushed to the scene and Naziki was rushed to hospital, where he later died from his injuries. Dal Pino allegedly admitted having chased Naziki but that she only wanted to get her bag back as it had her house keys, phone and personal documents inside.

“He had threatened to kill me with a knife,” she allegedly told police, according to MailOnline. “I was scared. I didn’t mean 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.”

Police later said Naziki had no knife and held Dal Pino in jail on suspicion of manslaughter before she was freed under house arrest. Her lawyer Enrico Marzaduri dismissed the clip, adding: “I understand from the autopsy that it was certainly the initial impact that proved fatal and there are no tyre marks on the body. She just wanted to stop him and was aiming for his legs. She is suffering for what she did and is feeling remorse for what happened.”

The Mirror has contacted police in Viareggio for comment. Local archbishop Paolo Giulietti said: “Other than self-defence, the video shows astonishing behaviour. How do you drive your car over a person’s body several times? How could we think that a quiet and esteemed lady, a capable entrepreneur, could carry out such an action? Evil wins when it makes us evil: those who rejoice because this episode would be an episode of self-defence demonstrate how evil wins.

“I say, let’s not rejoice, this is not self-defence, and it is not justice. Nothing, absolutely nothing can justify murder. Not just because we live in a state of law. But because every person, in every situation they find themselves in, has the right to live.”

Italy’s deputy prime minister Matteo Salvini responded to the report on Facebook: “This drama is the consequence of a crime. If the man who lost his life hadn’t been a delinquent this wouldn’t have happened. Naziki’s family told Moroccan TV they wanted “justice.” They added: “Not even an animal is killed in the way our brother was. We call for the woman to be sent back to jail.”

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