A few minutes before nine at night, creation and her husband, a couple Texas stay at the Acta Atrium in Barcelona’s Eixample to have fun Spring Soundchatted with his friends staying at the same hotel as it was time to go to the festival. But they began to hear screams of “pain” a man who claims loudly that he is kidnapped and i need someone ambulance. Genesis understands Spanish but couldn’t believe what he was hearing.
Moments later, the screams of despair from the man who said he had been abducted gave way to the slamming of doors and the stressed sound of footsteps coming from the apartment. Mossos d’Esquadra qthey had just arrived Atrium Minuteswarned by the hotel itself.
Four Mossos patrols, two local and two citizen security, first responded to the aid initiated by the hotel. Eight agents entered the building located in the center of Gran Via de Les Corts Catalanes and came across one of them. armed kidnappers. They managed to reduce it. And soon they found the man they had kidnapped. gagged in one of the rooms. Two other people were missing, perhaps hiding in one of the rooms, who might still be in the hotel, according to agents. Other reinforcements and riot police arrived. Mobile Brigade (Brimo) To take control of the hotel. Start an extensive search room by room. The loud order from the police is that everyone stay inside their cameras. The problem was that for Génesis and her husband, these orders went too far and were confused by the hostage’s cries for help. as citizens United States of AmericaThey believed that they could experience a massacre similar to the ones in the news recently in their country.
waiting for the police
“we passed so panic“, Genesis said in a broken voice as she left the hotel. “Our friends said we should be locked in WhatsApp, the police will come into our room to check if everything is okay,” he said at 1:00 pm, when the nightmare was over.
As frustrated as the couple waiting for the police to arrive, they dared to pull out their cell phones and record the agents’ arrival. This is successful, as seen in images that have been transferred to EL PERIÓDICO, a newspaper belonging to the same group. gun point because the police don’t know they can do it in Genesis’ room – or anywhere else. meet face to face They’re probably searching with one of the two men with guns.
When Mossos realizes that there is no kidnapper in that room, he recognizes Genesis and her husband as customers, asks them to introduce themselves, stay in a corner while searching the room and wait locked. Permission to go out came an hour later.
open inquiry
After searching the entire hotel, Mossos dispersed the operation and left the case in the hands of the officer. Security and Extortion Unit between Criminal Investigation Unit. From now on, they will be the ones trying to explain why they abducted this uninjured man and where the two missing people from the equation went.