Overview
- The episode unfolded around 7:30 p.m. at the MD market on Via Atellana in Caivano, near Naples.
- Witnesses said the man, appearing intoxicated and with two companions, told a mother “This is not your son, give him to me” before reaching for the 5-year-old.
- A friend of the mother and a cashier intervened to block him inside the store as the family sought safety.
- Carabinieri reviewed surveillance footage and took statements from the owner, staff and shoppers to reconstruct what happened.
- Officers located the 45-year-old loitering near the supermarket, arrested him on attempted sequestro di persona charges and transferred him to prison.