In April 2022, Charles Leclerc became a participant in an unpleasant story: a luxury Richard Mille watch was stolen from him. The Ferrari driver was having dinner with friends and his coach at a local restaurant when several people recognized him and approached him asking for a photo.
Gradually, a fairly large crowd of people wanting to take a souvenir photo gathered around Leclerc, and at one point an unknown person managed to remove a collector’s watch worth two million euros from the Ferrari driver’s wrist. By the time Charles discovered the loss, the thief had already disappeared.
A few months later, the criminals, who turned out to be four, were arrested and this week a court in the Italian city of Lucca handed down a verdict.
Two Naples residents, aged 30 and 20, were sentenced to 10 years and 8 months in prison. Another participant in the crime, a 30-year-old resident of Naples, received a lesser sentence: 6 years and 5 months in prison. She did not participate in the direct theft, but monitored the situation and had to warn her accomplices when the police showed up. A fourth member of the gang is expected to appear in court early next year.
This is not the first crime for the two convicts. In 2021, they carried out an armed attack on a French tourist, stealing his watch worth 80,000 euros.
Source: F1 News
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