National Police managed to prevent two violent robberiesFour people were arrested and four stolen luxury watches were recovered in two interventions just a few hours apart in Madrid.
The first took place in the early morning hours of Sunday, January 14. Salamanca neighborhood. A Spanish man was walking with a friend. Recoletos Walk when two men approached them and tried to distract them. The technique known as ‘Ronaldinho’Thieves put a leg between the victim’s legs, making him drool, and take the opportunity to rob him.
Their target was clear: The victim was wearing an Omega watch that was worth more than its price. 6,000 eurostrying to defend fighting with attackers. Luckily, two plainclothes police officers, who were doing secret surveillance at the time to prevent precisely such crimes, witnessed the incident and managed to reach the perpetrators, aged 20 and 23, one of Moroccan nationality and the other Algerian, and the loot they planned to take in addition to recovery. Both have a history of violent robbery.
Hidden among the hedges
The second robbery took place at the door of a hotelin the Madrid area Vegetable. Two Moroccan thieves, aged 25 and 26, hid among the fences near the entrance of the building. From there, they surveilled guests entering and exiting the facility and singled out those wearing high-end watches. They then jumped on them and stole their parts.
Both were stunned by the police as they tried to escape after trying to spy on a man whom they attacked and battered with great violence. wrist injuries When I was about to leave the hotel. When they were searched by agents after his arrest, two more expensive watches, Patek Philippe and Philipp Clein, were found as a result of previous thefts. Now they are trying to find its real owners.
These two interventions are the result of the plan initiated by the UN. Madrid National Police Headquarters to combat the rise in luxury watch thefts in the capital. They even created a special group consisting of: 17 agentsto investigate these crimes, managing to solve almost all the robberies in just a few months.