Civil guards chasing him all over Spain They called him ‘Usain Bolt’ because every time they went to catch him he would run away. The researchers conducted these studies for a year. Hunt down Europe’s best library thiefThe Hungarian citizen, who used many fake identities and was christened as the fastest man in history, is a Jamaican athlete, Olympic athletics champion and world record holder in the 100 meters.
Zsalt Come on, That’s really what it’s called bolt thief was arrested in Pamplona in 2009, accused of at least theft 67 maps of great historical value In libraries throughout the country, from Pamplona to the monastery of El Escorial, passing through Toledo, Soria, Salamanca, Valladolid and Logroño.
After some time, when the time came, the thief did not appear for trial and his current whereabouts are unknown, but as OPEN CASE learned, he spent some time in Spain. its last Trace lost in Torremolinos. He has at least one home in his native Hungary and a home in the Dominican Republic, the origin of his last known girlfriend and with whom he was arrested 14 years ago. That was the last time they saw him.
His couple The Dominican beauty was his weakness, Based on summaries and case reports. When the Security Guards came to Pamplona and asked about the thief, the hotel receptionist had forgotten her face, but she remembered well the woman who had booked room 608 on behalf of her friend Evelyn. She said she and the man went to the pharmacy. When they went to collect their luggage, they had to wait for the agents to return to the hotel to stop them.
Four countries, four names
In just over a yearHuseyin Bolt He had stolen maps of half of Spain (investigators would later confirm that he also did this in Portugal and Germany, among other places). He used false documents to travel in rented cars and registered under false names in libraries that he would plunder.
It is said that Slovak, Czech, Finnish and Lithuanian. Presented as Anton Ziska (in the General Archive of Navarra and the National Library of Portugal), but also Gyula Stpocz, Gabor Jozsef Cservenka And Romualdas Darginavicius.
The way it worked was almost perfect. “The way to extract leaves from volumes mainly consists of: tearing apart books “To bypass security checks, he used a sharp object, which had to be small, to extract the pages he wanted,” echo reports from the Civil Guard. two small knivesOne is in the glasses case, the other is in the wallet where he carries his credit cards.
Within a year, he stole historical maps worth more than 300,000 euros and caused half a million in losses. The Civil Guard followed his footsteps in Hungary, his country, and the Dominican Republic, where his girlfriend was born.
Bolt for cutting pages of books sometimes used inside hard collars shirts that double as plastic knives. He cut the sheet he wanted to steal, went to specific maps, a shot made. Many of the documents he stole were prepared to order, especially Ptolemy’s maps.
The total value of the damage caused to Spanish heritage by the cutting of historical books was estimated at 528,500 euros. The value of the maps he stole exceeded 350 thousandAccording to Civil Guard reports. Ziska acquired the plates of cartography and mapping pioneers of the 16th century: Ptolemy, Petrus Apianus, Abraham Ortelius and Jerome Giravaamong others.
Zsolt Vamos also had an agenda as he was arrested along with his partner. From analysis of these documents, researchers discovered that the man was quite methodical in his theft and loot. Stolen maps of America As reflected in the summary of the Biblion operation, he sent to the Dominican Republic what he stole from Europe, for example, what he sent from France to Hungary.
Representatives from Heritage Group traveled to both countries. at his home in Hungary Next to Lake Balaton and with a private pierHe had plans, maps and books, including those he stole during a visit to the University of Valladolid library. was there documents stolen from under the bed, According to the research.
colorful notes
The maps he had stolen before, the dates he went to libraries and the title of the work were on the agenda with red and black explanations. Also a ampersandSimilar to “seen” or “received” reports from any office or ministry report.
Along with these notes there were others without a date or a “seen” mark. Civil Guard investigators suspected that he had mentioned “libraries he planned to visit” before his arrest.
According to the Civil Guard report, other places Usain Bolt will “visit” include libraries in 28 provinces: From Asturias (general library and ancient collection of Oviedo)Gijón library) through Catalonia (three libraries in Barcelona, one in Girona and the other in Tarragona) that of Loyola Temple (in Azpeitia, Guipúzcoa), the Royal Academy and the Madrid Historical Archive, and even “study” visits to libraries in the Balearic Islands (Palma de Mallorca) and the Canary Islands (University of La Laguna).
Huseyin Bolt He did not give a statement after being detained. Yes, his partner, a young and attractive Dominican woman, did that. She claimed that she made her living as a trader and that her husband “buyed and sold cars” to make a living. She also said that they have been married for three years and have been to Spain four times. But she admitted that at least “three old maps” were “framed” in her home in the Dominican Republic, the origins of which she said she did not know.
“Train Robbery”
Civil Guards collected 67 maps and handed them over to their owners. Zsolt Vamos and his partner were released. He was charged but did not go to trial for his robberies. It has since disappeared, but traces of it have emerged in Torremolinos and other parts of Spain. Someone – he was an electrician, after all – stole the Codex Calixtinus Usain Bolt in Santiago de Compostela Cathedral, Hungary was the first suspect. However, police confirmed that he was resting on the beaches of Malaga province during those days in 2011.
What happened to the other Bolt, Ziska Vamos, during these years is a mystery. Researchers doubt that a professional of his talent and dedication has retired. He lived almost devotedly to robberies. This was his world. The thief, who settled in Toledo in those days in 2009, wrote a note about several cinemas in the area in one of the diary notes seized by the Civil Guard. Next to it he wrote the address, times and movie he chose: it was the leading role. Denzel Washington and John Travolta. It was called “Train Robbery”..