A telephone and repair shop on via Martiri d'Ungheria in Scafati has been targeted three times in September 2026, leaving the owners exasperated and calling for stronger night-time security in the area.
The business involved is iPhix Scafati, a telephone and electronics shop that also handles repairs. According to reports in Metropolis Web, Il Mattino and Il Gazzettino Vesuviano, the owners say surveillance recordings of the episodes are available and can be supplied to investigators or anyone who can help identify those responsible.
Three incursions between 18 and 27 September
The three outlets describe the same sequence of repeated incursions, but with different framing of the timing. The Metropolis headline presents the case as three episodes in three days, while Il Mattino and Il Gazzettino Vesuviano place the three episodes between 18 and 27 September, a span of nine days.
What is consistent across the reports is that the owners describe three attempted thefts or incursions within a short period in September 2026. The available reporting does not establish whether each episode was an attempted theft, a completed theft, or a combination of both, and no confirmed suspect identities, arrests, charges, stolen-value estimate or official investigative outcome has been reported.
During the latest episode, the thieves reportedly took some material but fled after the shop's fog-security system activated.
Cameras, alarms and a fog-security system
The owners say they had already invested in protection before the latest attempt, including surveillance cameras, alarms and other security measures. Il Gazzettino Vesuviano confirms the activation of the fog-security system during the most recent incursion, which filled the premises and caused the intruders to leave.
The footage from the shop's cameras is central to the owners' appeal: they say the recordings are available to help trace those responsible.
Patrol response and the owners' appeal
According to the owners, the Carabinieri station in Scafati attended on one occasion, while patrols from Nocera Inferiore and San Valentino Torio attended the other two episodes. That account of patrol availability and response coverage comes from the shop owners; no independent official statement on deployment was included in the reports reviewed.
The owners' public appeal focuses on night-time territorial security. Their message, as reported by Il Mattino and Il Gazzettino Vesuviano, is that they want to work without living in constant fear of another break-in, and they are asking for more consistent night-time protection for shops in the area.
For readers in Scafati, the practical points from the case are straightforward: the incidents concern the iPhix shop on via Martiri d'Ungheria, the reported window is 18 to 27 September, security footage is said to be available to investigators, and the owners say the key issue now is preventing a fourth episode.
