Valentina Vignali joins the long list of victims of thefts and pickpockets in the Milan subway: after the basketball player and the model lost her wallet, she appealed to the robbers to demand at least the return of her driver’s license and some personal effects, that were very close to her heart, including a photo of his grandfather. However, the news sparked laughter and satisfaction from numerous social media users and caused disbelief and dismay for the 32-year-old.
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Vignali was robbed while she was there Loreto train station to board the train of the green line M2 that would take her to Milan Centrale: from here she would continue her journey to Verona.
It is the basketball player herself who tells via her Instagram profile what happened to her yesterday, Saturday November 11th. “I was on the phone,” the girl tells her followers, “I’m on the subway because today it’s a mess with taxis and everything else, practically at the Loreto stop a guy pushes me.” “Then the doors close and it comes out,” he explains, “of course I already knew, I said to myself, ‘Okay, he stole mine wallet‘. In fact, I opened the bag and the wallet was no longer there.” As is often the case, a moment of distraction was enough for the robbery to be successful: a situation that is becoming more and more common in the Milan subway.
“Okay… these guys, keep your wallet, keep your money, keep everything,” the model says, turning to the robber, “but I need my license, doing it again is a pain in the ass. So.” Please, come on, you will have realized that it was me, somehow get me my driver’s license again: keep everything, money and wallet, but this driving licence I need”.
Memories
However, after the first outburst, the 32-year-old returns to Instagram to make a new appeal to the criminal who is targeting her: there is something even more important than the document that has disappeared and that is particularly close to her heart . “I don’t care about money, the value of my wallet or all the credit cards, and in fact I don’t care about my driver’s license (the most important document for me is the passport, because without it I can’t travel),” Vignali writes in a corresponding message about a picture of her in tears. “But there was a photo of me in there Grandpa that is no longer there,” he specifies, “a pearl bracelet with the name of a friend from my school days that we made by the sea, my old piercing and other small things whose value cannot be estimated. . .Fuck you.”
The attacks
Under the post with the basketball player’s story, many flocked to express their hatred for her. “They told me the story on a site that talks about Milan,” says the model. “I read the comments and I’m afraid of how mean people are. But do they pay you to be so mean? How scary. There are people who are happy.” Vignali says she was shocked by the unnecessary seizures she suffered in just a few hours. “A thousand different nuances that wouldn’t even occur to me: If something bad happens to someone I don’t even know, I’m sorry. The others enjoy it as if I had stolen their friend: “I am shocked,” sums up the 32-year-old.