He was alone in a small municipality of Ávila with barely a hundred neighbors who did not hear the cries for help coming from his rural property when heThe hooded men entered. They had chosen their victim. “They knew” he had money at home and for more than an hour they tied him up and tortured him. They took jewelry and 700 euros and he was seriously injured during their escape. After months of investigation, the suspected thieves were arrested and are in temporary prison and are being investigated for attempted murder.
The events occurred last June in the city of Santa Cruz de Pinares (Avila). From the start, the attackers clearly indicated their objective: the safe. However, they did not find the money they “expected” inside and began attacking the resident of the house and demanding more money from him while “threatening to kill” him. First with a stick, then “they tried to strangle him” with a cable. The 53-year-old man managed to escape, but during the confrontation he received further blows from them, who were allegedly brandishing a katana, according to a statement from the Civil Guard.
After receiving a lot of 700 euros in cash and seven watches worth 3000 quickly fled the scene. The victim had to remain hospitalized due to fractures of the facial bones and ribs and various contusions, in addition to injuries to one eye, in which he lost partial vision.
The investigation identified five people, three residing in the province of Valencia and the other two in Ávila, who could be linked to the events. It was a group of friends, of whom the Civil Guard emphasizes that “He carefully planned how to rob this victim when we learned he had money at home.”.
With numerous criminal records for similar acts, they organized themselves, each in their role. One would have been the initiator, another the collaborator, a third the guide and two the authors of the material. The five men were arrested in September and brought to court, ordering their entry into the country. provisional arrest of the attackers and release with charges of the others.
