The National Police has uncovered one of the most medial robberies of recent years in Cáceres. After the arrest of the two perpetrators, 45 bottles of wine, one worth 310 thousand euros, were found at the Atrio restaurant, although no loot was found..
these two people A man and a woman were arrested at the Croatian Karasovici Sutorina border post from MontenegroThanks to the investigation and coordination work carried out by the National Police in cooperation with EUROPOL and INTERPOL, the Croatian Border Police and the Spanish Interior Attaché in Romania and the Netherlands.
Prior to the arrest of these two individuals, extensive work was carried out to identify them, both in Spain and elsewhere, police sources reported in a press release.
The events took place on October 27, 2021, at the Atrio de Cáceres hotel, when those currently detained were having dinner in the restaurant of this establishment.After the woman was there, she handed over a fake Swiss document.
After dinner, both visited the restaurant’s cellar, invited by the staff, a common practice by this establishment with customers.. They then went into the room, according to the same sources, and minutes later the man left the room to go to the basement where the cellar was located.
After entering the restaurant with a previously stolen master key, he left minutes later with three large backpacks, one in his hand and one on his back, carrying 45 bottles of wine.with a value of 1,648,500 euros. Only one, one of a kind in the world, is worth 310,000 euros.
For the protection of bottles they used a few towels from the room they were staying.
“They acted with great professionalism, expertise and perfect planning in the robbery”
In response, the woman went down to the reception to distract the employee, on the pretext that she was preparing something to eat for him, even though the kitchen was already closed.
The theft was discovered the next morning and it was confirmed that the alleged perpetrators had left the hotel around 5:30 am.. In the opinion of the National Police, those who are now arrested they acted with “great professionalism, expertise and flawless planning in the heist”..
The investigation also revealed that before both committing the robbery, he visited the restaurant up to three times to do a preliminary study of the place.
The managers of the Atrio hotel, José Polo and Toño Perez, have always argued that the robbery was “to order.”. Of the 45 bottles stolen, 38 were the “Romanée Conti” and the winery’s “great hero” was the “Chateau d’Yquem” from 1806 worth 310,000 euros.
More than two decades ago, Polo and Pérez managed to seize this historic bottle, which “sees – they said – the evolution of the last 215 years in European history, at an auction held at Christie’s in 2000.