For four months, a 24-year-old man from Friuli-Venezia Giulia traveled by train to Milan to carry out a series of robberies at cosmetics, household products and clothing stores. After each heist, he would return home, pulled by an impulse he could not control. Then came the decisive step with confession. On Tuesday, February 11, the young man showed up at the Lambrate Police station, on the eastern outskirts of Milan, and told everything to the officers. "I am unemployed. I started with robberies because it was the quickest way to make a living," he allegedly said, explaining that he was worn down by guilt and the fear of not being able to stop. His method was always the same: he would enter stores, take some products, approach the cashier pretending to pay, and, with a leap over the counter, push the cashier, sometimes threatening him with a knife, to take possession of the money. Police verified the details provided by the young man and cross-referenced the complaints in the database. Store managers, when contacted, also recognized him as the perpetrator of the robberies. The 24-year-old had previously spent 6 months in prison for a robbery committed in January 2024 near Milan Rogoredo station. When he got out of prison, he had been living as unemployed at his mother's house until he started delinquency again. Now, after self-reporting, he has been transferred to San Vittore prison.