More than 200 individuals have been arrested for looting and looting in public establishments and also in private homes since DANA devastated much of Valencia. Until Wednesday evening, judges in 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 president of Torrent’s Court of Instruction number 3, on duty these days, sent around thirty people to prison. All prison orders were issued by him. These are cases in which it has become clear that the products stolen are not essential: water, food or essential products for survival, known as starvation thefts. The profile of these thieves who took advantage of the disaster and the lack of control, particularly in India. The first days, to take away everything they caught, they were men, aged 25 to 45, 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 field; others have less, they arrived later”, explain the Citizen Security agents. 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The judges of the two other judicial parties did not appreciate these aggravating circumstances and did not impose prison measures. What the police portrait of the detainees shows is that these lootings were mainly committed by criminals and among these criminal professionals, they stand out significantly. citizens with a history. Among those arrested, there is another subgroup of Romanians, supposed collectors of scrap metal, but who also entered establishments to steal or looted mountains of cars piled up in the streets. An example on Sunday in the shopping district of Bonaire. center of Aldaia The National Police arrested 16 individuals, fourteen Algerians and two Moroccans. This figure can be extrapolated in many cases these days, depending on the sources consulted. The Civil Guard, which deployed 500 Citizen Security agents throughout Spain, arrested 107 people on Friday, many of whom were caught fleeing. work in industrial areas. In the Catarroja industrial zone, individuals were arrested stealing mattresses and supplies from a van; at another, in the industrial area of Alcudia, as he was preparing to steal an articulated vehicle. He had several signs and a search and arrest warrant was pending against him. Five others were arrested in the Picaña industrial zone with a cargo of industrial batteries, catalysts, hydraulic cylinders, tires and drills. They all have a long history. Among the Spaniards arrested are five people accused of stealing high-end jewelry and watches worth 500,000 euros from a jewelry store in a shopping center in Alfafar. One of the most notable cases occurred on Monday. Usecic agents arrested five people in the Ribarroja industrial zone. Four of them were Spaniards from the same clan and they were accompanied by a Moroccan. They intended to recover a container containing 200 tires carried away by the current. Also note the arrest of five people accused of stealing high-end jewelry and watches worth 500,000 euros from 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, aged 29 to 53, 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 home, in addition to finding the stolen jewelry and watches, cell phones, video games and household appliances were recovered which, on suspicion, had also been stolen from other establishments in the same shopping center, taking advantage of the chaos. that DANA left behind. There is another striking case. A 57-year-old man who rented a van and traveled from Madrid to rob a car dealership in the Horno de Alcedo neighborhood of Valencia. A 57-year-old man even rented a van and traveled from Madrid to rob a car dealership. An employee alerted Citizen Security agents of the National Police who were deployed in the industrial zone of the area to carry out theft prevention work : There was a suspicious individual entering and leaving the premises, apparently removing belongings from inside. They caught him in the act of opening the drawers of a table in the establishment, which he had entered by forcing the front door. Inside the van – expressly rented to strike different blows in the less protected areas after the storm – were found cash, a television, a USB stick with the dealer’s brand logo, drills, radials, batteries, heat guns, etc. other tools. The events occurred last Wednesday. Even if the police and the Civil Guard agree that looting has fallen in recent days, thanks to the deployment of agents. “In the first moments, we were trying to rescue and help people, not to arrest them, we could not do it,” say some of these officials.
