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ClioMakeUp Says Her Handbag Was Stolen at a Milan Restaurant

Her public plea to find the bag shows how victims now turn to social media for help.

Overview

  • Clio Zammatteo, known as ClioMakeUp, said a thief took her brown handbag as she sat in a restaurant in Milan’s Pagano area during a lunch break after a photo shoot.
  • She posted a video on Instagram asking people to look for the brown bag and to help her recover at least her identity documents.
  • After her post, she went to the carabinieri, Italy’s national police, to file a report and retrace the sequence of events.
  • She said the bag held her car and house keys, her ID card and health card, and wallet photos of her daughters, Grace and Joy, and her grandfather.
  • She noted it was the second such theft in five years, and no recovery had been reported, a case one newspaper used to claim these thefts are common in Milan.