The Valencia Provincial Prosecutor’s Office will request the provisional detention of all those arrested for theft, theft or looting in the context of the floods suffered by the province due to the DANA.
This Thursday, the National Police announced the arrest of 50 people for allegedly looting businesses in areas of Valencia affected by DANA.
These arrests were carried out as part of a special crime prevention system launched around the commercial areas most affected by the torrential rains which devastated several Valencian municipalities. These people took advantage of the catastrophic situation to theft mainly in the Bonaire shopping centerwhere they destroyed supermarkets and jewelry stores.
In addition to the arrests, police recovered a multitude of stolen items, including watches and other jewelry.
However, as reported by the spokesperson for the Valencia public prosecutor’s office, This reality is “absolutely intolerable morally and criminally”therefore the above-mentioned precautionary measures will be requested. “In these dramatic times when more than 155 people have lost their lives and thousands of people have lost all their belongings in a devastating DANA, thefts and thefts take place in situations of helplessness of the victims, with contempt for them and attempt at impunity,” deplores the public prosecutor.
Torrent judge sends four inmates to prison for looting
The president of the Court of Instruction number 3 of Torrent, decreed the entry into temporary prison, communicated and without bail, of four detained men for allegedly looting businesses in a shopping center in the town of Aldaia last Tuesday night, while the area was being hit by DANA.
The instructor made this decision at the request of the Prosecutor’s Office, after receiving the statements of the arrested persons by videoconference, in telematic connection with the Valencia City Hall of Justice, where they had been transferred by the security forces due to the impossibility of taking them. at the courthouse due to the effects of flooding.
The four people involved were arrested by the Civil Guard after being surprised in the vicinity of the shopping center with items that they had just stolen from several businesses, such as sports equipment, cell phones and a video game console, among others. others.
The judge indirectly attributes to the persons indicted, without prejudice to any other qualification, the aggravated offense of theft with violence in an establishment open to the public for the commission of which an accident was exploited or “the existence of a risk or ‘a general danger’. for the community which has weakened the defense of the offended party or facilitated the unpunished commission of the crime”.
The judge considers that the detainees They were able to take advantage of the impunity afforded to them by the fact that the security forces were handling the emergency situation. generated by DANA for allegedly committing the theft.
