The National Police and the Civil Guard were investigating the robbers who allegedly killed a woman who worked in a bingo hall in Tortosa (Tarragona) early Monday morning. She is about two brothers and the girlfriend of one of them, according to police sources. One of the three involved is still free and the police suspect that he has fled to France, according to La Vanguardia and confirmed by this newspaper.
The agents of both police forces were investigating them for violent robberies in Navarra, also at betting houses and bingo halls, according to various police sources consulted. After the shooting in Tortosa was made public, the National Police notified the Mossos d’Esquadra that same Monday morning that it could be the trio they were tracking, they provided them with the license plate of a vehicle and finally they made a joint device that ended with the arrest of five people on Monday afternoon in the center of Tortosa.
The Civil Guard went the same Monday, hours later, to the Mossos d’Esquadra, but with a more reticent attitude, according to those same sources. The agents also had an investigation, in this case judicialized and with telephone interventions, on the same people, who until now had not used that level of violence in their robberies.
The Mossos d’Esquada and the Police annulled three of the five arrests after taking their statements at police headquarters. They are still waiting for one of the arrested brothers, still a minor but about to turn 18, and the woman to come to justice for her alleged involvement in the woman’s death at a bingo hall in Tortosa. They are accused of being part of the group of three hooded men who entered the local Vali Park when they were about to close. Inside there was only one client and the company’s worker. They asked the man for his cell phone and when he refused and tried to leave, they shot him in the back. The client is still recovering in the hospital. The woman was later shot in the head and died.
The first investigations suggest that, despite the excessive violence they used, the thieves were unable to get hold of the money in the box. That made the police think at first that they were inexperienced thieves. The robbery in bingo halls has grown in recent years, although the violence used in the Tortosa robbery is not common in this type of robbery.
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