The Mossos d’Esquadra have arrested three members, between 31 and 44 years of age, of a legal group in Barcelona, through which they might have carried out a minimum of 22 robberies with drive at faculties, sports activities facilities and different industrial institutions.
The brokers intercepted them on November 30, after they have been making ready to flee Catalonia by taxi to Perpignan, with a loot of 19,000 euros. In their escape plan, as soon as within the French metropolis they might have taken a bus to the middle of Europe.
Those investigated had specialised in committing robberies with drive utilizing the butrón technique, through which they made holes in partitions or ceilings, burst workplace doorways and fractured glass. His legal exercise developed, in a really intense manner, in two phases: one in spring and one other in autumn.
The legal group targeted on leisure facilities of the identical franchise. Between May 19 and July 2, they carried out 4 robberies in facilities positioned in Sant Fruitós de Bages, Tarragona, Girona and Lleida. During this identical interval, they carried out 4 extra robberies in opposition to 4 different corporations. All of them with the identical technique.
During the second part, the detainees would have dedicated 14 extra robberies, between October 16 and November 26. At this stage, they primarily targeted on faculties and coaching facilities. They would even have participated in robberies at three sports activities facilities and one other at an organization. This time they targeted on areas within the Barcelona metropolitan space, primarily within the Vallès Occidental and Barcelona, and in Reus.
The Criminal Investigation Division (DIC) estimates that the worth of the money and stolen objects quantities to 31,000 euros. On the opposite hand, an financial evaluation of the harm produced in all of the facilities and firms that suffered the robberies shouldn’t be but accessible.
The detainees, who add as much as 88 police data by the Mossos d’Esquadra, have been handed over to the Manresa Investigating Court quantity 4, which ordered provisional detention for the three.
The investigation stays open and it’s not dominated out that extra legal acts will be attributed to the legal group, in addition to the making of extra arrests of the members of the group.