Light and stenographers surrounded this Wednesday, how could it be otherwise, a new day of disclosure in the media atrium vault 4 in the Magistrate’s Court caceres. Relais&chateaux owners got out of a black Mercedes that left them at the courthouse door in the morning. Jose Polo and Tono Perezafter being summoned to testify as a witness at the request of the judge Tower Cross Aida Maria, and after the lawyer for those arrested for the millionaire robbery at the restaurant, Sylvia Cordoba MorenoHe begged his master.
One in a shirt, the other in a sports polo shirt, Jose and Toño they appeared in the courthouse with calm faces. Followed by a cloud of photographers and reporters, Atrio’s owners did not comment to the media and initially went straight to the third floor of the building, where the court summoned them to testify at 10:00. The insurer located in Zafra, together with the restaurant’s managers, are located clockwise.
The statements were made behind closed doors in Trial Hall No. 3, where two people accused of theft were interrogated on 4 August. Mexican models Priscila Lara Guevara and Constantin Gabriel DumitruHe has other history of wine theft and will be tried and sentenced to prison for the theft of a bottle of whiskey worth 6,000 euros from a liquor store in Madrid’s Salamanca district on October 18. .
What punishment are the defendants sentenced to?
Two persons charged with Atrio robbery are charged with forcible robbery in things set out in Article 241 of the Penal Code. In this case, there are cases covered in section 4 of this article. According to this article, “if the acts mentioned in the previous sections are particularly serious, depending on the way the crime was committed or the damage caused, and in any case, a prison sentence of two to six years is imposed. , when any of the conditions specified in article 235 are met». However, it remains to determine the legal liability that the defendants will face, namely the amount of compensation that the insurer will claim for the value of the wines.
Regarding the parties, it is the public ministry that makes the request for conviction. At this time, it is not known how much the insurer’s claim, which was questioned this Wednesday and was presented as a private charge. For its part, the defense of the accused always defends their innocence.
From a black Mercedes that left them at the doorstep of the courts, atrium owners, Jose Polo and Tono PerezAfter being summoned to testify as witnesses at the request of judge Aida María de la Cruz de la Torre and the lawyer of those arrested for millionaire robbery in Relais & Chateaux, judge of the investigating court number 4, Sylvia Cordoba MorenoHe begged his master.
Jose and Toño, one in a shirt and the other in a polo shirt, appeared in the courthouse with calm faces. Followed by a cloud of photographers and reporters, Atrio’s owners urged them to testify by going directly to the third floor of the building where the court was located in the first place. At 10:00, with the people in charge of the restaurant’s insurer in Zafra.
The statements were made behind closed doors in Trial Hall 3 on August 4, where the two defendants charged with theft, Mexican model Priscila Lara Guevara and the suspect, were interrogated. Constantine Gabriel DumitruHe has other history of wine theft and will be tried and sentenced to prison for the theft of a bottle of whiskey worth 6,000 euros from a liquor store in Madrid’s Salamanca district on October 18. .
“Forgive me, I’m so fair”
The lawyer of the defendants, Sylvia Córdoba Moreno, arrived at the Palace of Justice from Madrid at 10 am. “Forgive me, I am very fair”, He told reporters that he would make a statement at the end of his statement.
Inside the room were the defense attorney and representatives of the Zafra insurance company, which presented themselves as private prosecutions. The judge first summoned Toño Pérez, an internationally renowned chef, to testify and spent an hour answering questions from the parties. He left the court at 11:00 without making any statement to the press.. He did so from the door of the Police Court on the San Francisco ring road, where he got in the same Mercedes that drove him there an hour earlier.
The defense attorney claims that the witnesses were unable to identify the accused as the perpetrators.
Then, Aida María de la Cruz called Jose Polo waiting in an adjacent room. He testified for an hour. After leaving, he only commented: “The process is clear and nothing can be said.” The statements ended with the statement of one of the employees at the hotel reception on the day of the robbery. He did it for 45 minutes.
But what happened in that statement room? Everything that was inside was revealed by the defense attorney. Sylvia Córdoba pointed out that Jose Polo and Toño Pérez base their statements on the value of the bottles, especially the unique copy. Chateau D’YquemThe most unique of the collection and the highest valued (more than 300,000 Euros). The value of the 45 stolen bottles was set at 1,600,000 euros.
“They defend their history. The history they have created and poetized. And it looks respectable to me”, pointed to the lawyer. After three hours of questioning, he emphasized that one of the points that caught his attention the most was “the love the owners have for that bottle.” “Everything is important and should be valued, it must have done them very serious harm,” he said.
“They are very nice”
The lawyer always appreciated the speed of the instruction and the “friendly” tone both Toño and Jose gave to the parties’ questions, noting that the three witnesses provided “a lot of data” on the case. , about the winery and wines. “They said a lot because we’ve been there a long time. They gave all the details they could”.
It also affected one of the aspects on which his defense was based, that neither witness was able to determine that the two suspects were the perpetrators of the robbery. “No one knew them.” At this point, he added, an identity parade could not be held due to the excessive media exposure the two defendants had been exposed to in recent weeks. “it would be silly”came to the conclusion.
The case thus continues its investigation. More hotel workers are expected to testify this Thursday. Eight more people are called to testify. Sylvia Córdoba will continue her statement by making a video call from Madrid. In parallel, the judge, at the defense’s request, asked Atrio’s owners to provide the wine list, and the detainees have been in prison since their interrogation, awaiting the resolution of their lawyer’s appeal for their release. Free.