More than 200 individuals have been arrested for looting and looting in public establishments and also in private homes since the DANA devastated a good part of Valencia. Until Wednesday night, the judges of three of the most affected judicial districts – Torrent, Catarroja and Alzira – had received 62 arrests for committing crimes in this context of indiscriminate looting. The head of the Investigative Court number 3 of Torrent, on guard duty these days, has sent around thirty to prison. All the prison orders have been issued by him. These are cases in which it has become clear that the stolen products are not essential: water, food or products essential to survival, known as starving thefts. The profile of these thieves who have taken advantage of the catastrophe and lack of control, especially In the first days, to take away everything they caught was the following: men, 25 to 45 years old, mostly of North African origin and with criminal records, according to police sources consulted by ABC. «Some have up to thirty arrests because they are professionals in this; others have less, they have arrived later,” explain Citizen Security agents. Related News They are 5 and 3 years old standard Yes Batch of police and volunteers to search for Izan and Rubén in Torrent Elena BurésSome of those who have been placed in provisional detention by court order They were stealing luxury items from shopping centers to sell: jewelry, watches, video games. There is even one detainee for stealing gasoline from a truck. The judge of Torrent, Fernado Simo, attributes 15 of those imprisoned to the commission of crimes of aggravated robbery in an establishment open to the public, understanding that they were able to take advantage of the catastrophe caused by the floods to perpetrate the crimes with impunity. The other 15 imprisoned people are investigated for a continued crime of robbery with force both with the previous aggravating circumstance and with that of belonging to a criminal group or, alternatively, a crime of theft with the same two circumstances aggravating factors. The judges of the other two judicial parties have not appreciated these aggravating factors nor have they issued prison measures. What the police portrait of the detainees shows is that these lootings have been committed mostly by criminals and among these criminal professionals they stand out significantly. Algerian citizens with background. There is another subgroup among those arrested of Romanians, supposed scrap metal collectors, but who have also entered establishments to steal or have looted the mountains of cars stacked in the streets. Members of clansAn example on Sunday in the area of the Bonaire shopping center in Aldaia The National Police arrested 16 individuals, fourteen were Algerian and two Moroccan. That figure can be extrapolated in many cases these days, according to the sources consulted. The Civil Guard, which has deployed 500 Citizen Security agents from all over Spain, had detained 107 individuals as of Friday, many of them caught in the middle of their work in industrial estates. In the Catarroja industrial estate, some individuals were arrested stealing mattresses and supplies from a van; to another, in the Alcudia industrial estate when he was preparing to steal an articulated vehicle. He had several signs and a search and arrest warrant was pending against him. Five more were caught in the industrial zone of Picaña with a shipment of industrial batteries, catalysts, hydraulic jacks, tires and drills. They all had a long history. There are five people accused of stealing high-end jewelry and watches worth 500,000 euros in a jewelry store in a shopping center in Alfafar. Among the Spanish arrestees, some clan members appear. One of the most striking cases occurred on Monday. Usecic agents arrested five people at the Ribarroja industrial estate. Four of them were Spanish from the same clan and they were accompanied by a Moroccan. They intended to take a container with 200 tires that had been swept away by the current. Also noteworthy is the arrest of five people accused of stealing high-end jewelry and watches worth 500,000 euros in a jewelry store in a shopping center in Alfafar. According to the complaint filed by the owner of the establishment, the individuals broke the window glass with a sledgehammer. These are four men and a woman, between 29 and 53 years old, some with criminal records, who, thanks to citizen collaboration, were able to be identified by agents of the National Police. During the searches of their homes, in addition to finding the stolen jewelry and watches, mobile phones, video games and appliances were recovered that, it is suspected, they had also stolen from other establishments in the same shopping center, taking advantage of the chaos that DANA left behind. passed. There is another striking case. A 57-year-old man who had rented a van and traveled from Madrid to rob a car dealership in the Horno de Alcedo district of Valencia, A 57-year-old man has even rented a van and traveled from Madrid to rob in a car dealershipAn employee alerted the Citizen Security agents of the National Police who were deployed in the area’s industrial estate carrying out robbery prevention work: there was a suspicious individual entering and leaving the premises, apparently removing effects from inside. They caught him red-handed opening the drawers of a table in the establishment, which he had entered by forcing the entrance door. Inside the van – expressly rented to strike different blows in the most unprotected areas after the storm – cash, a television, a pen drive with the logo of the dealer’s brand, drills, radials, batteries, thermal guns, etc. were found. like other tools. The events occurred last Wednesday. Although the Police and Civil Guard agree that looting has plummeted in recent days, thanks to the deployment of agents. “In the first moments we were trying to rescue and help people, not arrest, we couldn’t cope,” say some of these officials.
#Male #years #North #African #origin
