Ten ertzainas were injured this Sunday, four of whom were hospitalized – including one in the intensive care unit -, as part of the operation to arrest five individuals in Vitoria after robbing a shopping center in San Sebastián and fleeing to high speed in two vehicles.
The arrests took place this Sunday morning in Vitoria, while the five suspects were fleeing in two vehicles from a theft committed in the Garbera shopping center. These individuals, who resisted their arrest, are accused of the crimes of theft with force, attack on officers, theft and offense against road safetyas reported by the Basque Security Department.
This Sunday, a few minutes before seven in the morning, the Ertzaintza learned a forceful theft committed in an establishment of the shopping center and several police resources were sent to the site.
The agents verified that the criminals had gone to the company in two vehicles – one of which was stolen – in which they had placed license plates stolen the day before to other cars parked in Vitoria.
Since that time, the Ertzaintza has established a monitoring device which made it possible to locate the people involved an hour later while they were traveling at high speed near Vitoria, on the A-1.
The alleged perpetrators of the theft attempted to flee Ertzaintza in the opposite direction, via the A-1 and the N-622. The agents managed to intercept them near the Abetxuko neighborhood, in Vitoria, but the thieves They attacked police vehicles with great violence.
The detainees were transferred to police stations continue the relevant procedures, once completed they will be brought to judicial disposal.
The investigation remains open to try to determine the involvement of those arrested in a theft with similar characteristics suffered by the same establishment at the start of the year.
