Overview
- The suspect entered a changing room in Osio Sotto on Thursday after practice, claimed to be a father, and was stopped when the 8-year-old told the coach he did not know him.
- Coaches and parents restrained the man and called 112, and Carabinieri arrested him on suspicion of attempted kidnapping of a minor.
- A Bergamo investigating judge validated the arrest and ordered pre-trial custody for a 29-year-old Pakistani resident of Dalmine with no prior convictions.
- During questioning, the suspect gave shifting accounts with no clear motive, and the judge called for a psychiatric evaluation citing a disturbed personality.
- Coach Ivano Pontoglio, a retired Carabinieri vice brigadiere, led the stop, and the club has tightened pick-up routes to keep children within the field until parents arrive, as recent cases in Bergamo, Vinci and Latina have fueled wider concern about child safety.