German Woman Posing as Empress Arrested in Italy

In Italy, 49-year-old German citizen Sandra Nicole Martinez, who pretended to be the empress and was part of Rome's high society, was detained. This was reported by the Italian newspaper La Repubblica.

She was exposed because she constantly violated traffic rules: for this, she was arrested by the Italian traffic police. Martinez was charged with fraud and forgery of documents. She faces a fine of up to 100 thousand euros. Martinez called herself an empress and moved in the highest circles of Roman society, she even founded her own "imperial house of Glodeni" and proclaimed herself its head. However, Glodeni is a city in Moldova.

According to her social media, she attended ceremonies in the Vatican, and she also posted coats of arms of various aristocratic houses with the caption "The Royal House does not need a title, but internal dignity."

The police found out that the "empress" had accumulated 600 fines totaling 2.6 thousand euros. It also turned out that she owned a Bentley Continental Cabrio and a Ferrari California with German and Austrian license plates that were issued to other cars: a truck was registered to one of them in Germany.