The 'cripple’ which even the pope, to the garden led: Italian occurs twelve years as an invalid

Bizarre Italian (55) has twelve years of being feigned an invalid, and could so successfully, doctors, neighbors, and even the pope, to the garden. Roberto Guglielmi moved on in a wheelchair and received wrongfully for a total of 137.000 euro benefits. Already walking, he is unmasked, writes La Repubblica.

To his many years of fraud is credible to keep went Guglielmi far, very far. Flashback to 2007: the man from Firenze devised a plan to no longer having to work, and henceforth to live of government assistance. A road accident simulation seemed to him the most obvious ‘solution’. But for such a thing had he needed the help of an accomplice. His own tenant turned out to be the perfect figure, because he is a few months behind on the rent. the

If the tenant would help him, went to the landlord Guglielmi, the guilt is enough). The man agreed, and drove as agreed quietly one evening with his car, Guglielmi on the zebra crossing. Probably has the fake-invalid from then on, for the first time, the anesthetic lidocaine and injected in his legs. It also helped to ensure that the limbs are a total of verslapten. A practice that for years he continued. the

The police considered the explanation of the drivers lessee as credible. Also falsified medical records made by the doctors not for suspicion. The plan worked, Guglielmi received from his monthly steuntoelage and did as ‘cripple’ is no longer working. Every time he left the house, he used his wheelchair.

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Fear of being caught, the man did not appear, let alone in the lee life. Once outside Firenze deposit he the wheelchair, and he began just to walk. The man gave himself out for agent, ships, or friend of a famous general in the hope all kinds of favors to obtain. Back as an invalid he wrote in 2014 letter to the Vatican. With success, the letter to pope Francis hit him promptly in 2015 and invited for a personal audience. Guglielmi posted proud some photos of the maintenance on his facebook profile. In the meantime a man in his fifties early last year on social media to provide financial support to the medical treatment for his dog to fund. It is unclear how much money he could binnenrijven.

Airport

To his life as a fake disabled came last week to an abrupt end. Upon returning from a vacation in the African Togo, he was at the airport already stepping away recognized by a nurse. Who informed immediately the police. Guglielmi has already received a standing cuff to. On the luchthavenparking was in his car in a wheelchair found. Justice is judicial prosecution for the many years of fraud that the Italian state at least 137.000 euro has cost. It is not yet known if the man should avoid. If the Italian convicted and a towering obliged to pay the compensation, he can, but better start with the uittikken of his memoirs. Who knows shows Hollywood interested in a film adaptation?