“I arrived in Spain in 2017 with a tourist visa; I was denied asylum about two years ago; these days of November 2018, I came to Cordoba “To see a Colombian friend that I hadn’t seen for a long time, he offered me to participate and I went that day, but I was only involved in one of the flights, the one with my fingerprint.”
This is how strongly a young 30-year-old Colombian faces nine years prison for his participation in a dozen robberies in apartments in the west of the capital.
Next to this card, two other members of this group should be sitting on the bench. band criminal accused of the same crimes, but are in absentia and sought and captured.
The Córdoba public prosecutor’s office, in its provisional classification of events, to which ABC had access, indicates that the three accused, together, went to the city of Córdoba, where they remained in order to collect information on the most favorable places to carry out the activity to which they are dedicated, which consists of committing theft with force in an inhabited house.
To commit these thefts, “the accused took advantage of the hours when they at home in the morning They are empty and choose places that, with their easy access to highways out of the city, would allow them to escape easily,” such as houses near the northern ring road, next to the Hipercor.
To do this, according to the prosecution, the three accused went to the different places where they were going to carry out their criminal purposethat they had coordinated in such a way that any member of the group intervened indiscriminately, almost always in this group of three.
In this way and in the city of Cordoba, the Prosecutor’s Office accuses them of being behind thefts in 12 houses in the west of the city, with the same method of getting inside by breaking the locks, the prosecutor recalled during the trial.
For his part, the only defendant who attended the trial defended himself against the eleven robberies, claiming in court that he had only participated in one and that he was under the influence of drugs. narcotic substances and that during the identification session in which he participated, he heard how they said that he looked similar but that these witnesses were not sure that it was him.
Theft of 60,000 euros of jewelry and 40,000 euros of cash
The Public Prosecutor’s Office considers these facts to constitute a continuing crime of forceful theft from an inhabited house of particular seriousness, due to the damage caused. The representative of the Public Prosecutor’s Office reminded the accused during his statement that only in the theft in which he admits in court to having participated, jewelry worth more than 60,000 euros was stolen, an envelope of 40,000 euros and in another place in the house, other jewelry of daily use worth 6,000 euros.
The accused replied that he did not know the amounts, but he admitted that they stole money But he was not responsible for counting or distributing it, he only collaborated in this theft on November 8, 2018, even though on another floor of this same building there was one with similar characteristics that morning even.
