03-07-2025
Socialite charged with murder after video allegedly shows her running down bag thief with SUV
An Italian socialite has been charged with murder after she was allegedly caught on camera repeatedly running over a mugger for snatching her bags.
Cinzia Dal Pino, 65, is accused of killing Nourdine Mezgoui, a 52-year-old Moroccan national, in the Italian seaside resort of Viareggio after he stole her bag, L'Unione Sarda reported.
Shocking security footage shows Dal Pino allegedly mowing down the suspected bag thief with her SUV on Sept. 8 of last year.
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Video shows Mezgoui walking along the sidewalk when a vehicle suddenly appears to deliberately veer into him.
4 Italian socialite Cinzia Dal Pino is accused of repeatedly running down a suspected bag thief.
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The SUV then reverses and runs over Mezgoui three times as he laid on the sidewalk.
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The driver, who prosecutors say is Dal Pino, then gets out of the car and goes over to retrieve the bag Mezgoui allegedly stole from her before driving off.
4 Shocking footage reportedly shows Dal Pino repeatedly running over the alleged thief, Nourdine Mezgoui.
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4 She then gets out of the car to retrieve her bag before driving off.
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Dal Pino, a successful entrepreneur and socialite, now faces charges of voluntary homicide and could be handed a life sentence.
4 Mezgoui's relative holds up a photo of the Moroccan national.
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Her defense argued unsuccessfully that the crime should be requalified as an act of self-defense.
She has remained under house arrest with an electronic tag since her arrest.
A preliminary hearing was held in a nearby court in Lucca on Thursday, and Dal Pino is due to appear in court again on Sept. 24.
