She, with a crutch in her right hand, walks with difficulty holding her husband. The criminal, at the beginning of the lonely street, takes his seconds until he finds the moment to run cowardly closer. He surprises the elderly couple from behind and snatches the bag that the husband hangs from his left arm. He does it with such force that the octogenarian couple falls to the ground while the thief flees the way he came.
This violent robbery, which occurred last Friday in the Toledan city of La Puebla de Montalbán, was recorded by a security camera and the video is now circulating on WhatsApp accounts.
The attack by the criminal took place in the afternoon, when the couple, much loved in this town of 8,000 inhabitants, were heading towards their house through the Baños alley. “Apart from the scare and the scratches, thank God they are fine.”“Mayor Soledad de Frutos tells ABC.
East a “very endearing” couple who lives in the municipality where Fernando de Rojas, the author of La Celestina, was born. The woman has always taken care of the precious plants around a sculpture of the Sacred Heart of Jesus located in a small square, on Monjas Street.
The thief is known in the citywhere we talk about “another story” about him, “but never as serious as this one” and which could have cost his victims dearly.
