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8 arrested from different groups for robbing and stealing watches of 500,000 euros


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Dozens of agents of the
National Police
of police stations, the UDEV, the Udyco and the UIP of Madrid, among other units, have arrested eight individuals who, alone or in pairs, have perpetrated at least 19 thefts of luxury watches, valued at nearly half a million euros.

It is actually four different operations, also in time, in which there are involved Moroccans, Romanians, Italians and Venezuelans. By the way, of the eight defendants, seven have entered prison (one of the Latinos, who had no criminal record, is still on the street).

A Neapolitan mobster

Operation Philipp features a member of the neapolitan mafia who was dedicated to traveling around Europe and different areas of Spain, such as Madrid, Barcelona, ​​Ibiza and the Costa del Sol, to rob luxury watch carriers.

He bought his own motorcycles, kept them in a parking lot and changed the plates there.

This was the arm of one of the victims
This was the arm of one of the victims

The Judicial Police Brigade had been looking for him for some time, but he was finally arrested by riot police on March 4 after stealing a Philipp Patec to a driver at the intersection of Pradillo with Príncipe de Vergara. At the time of his arrest he was carrying the loot, valued at 80,000 euros.

Although he is accused of four other robberies, which he normally committed on a motorcycle (sometimes, with a consort who acted as a ‘package’ on the motorcycle). His main ‘modus operandi’ was to take advantage of a traffic jam early in the morning or at rush hour after work to stand next to a high-end car, break the driver’s rear-view mirror or some similar trick, make the victim take out arm out the window and take the opportunity to rip the watch off with extreme violence.

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to butts in the head

The second operation, baptized three guys operation, has ended with the arrest of a 24-year-old Moroccan who already had 13 records, most for crimes against property. Now he is charged with six robberies of young people at the exit of nightclubs in the Salamanca, Chamberí and Chamartín neighborhoods, whom he first tried to cajole and then received a beating, until he took their watches.

In the cuckoo operationor four Venezuelans were sought, who acted in binomials (couples). The youngest is 22 years old and the oldest is 31. In their country, this type of thief is known as the ‘moto clock’, although they preferred to approach the terraces of exclusive bars and, directly, hit the butt with a pistol. the victim’s head and steal their watches. There are seven proven facts. Two were arrested in early April and the others on May 17, sources in the case tell ABC.

Precisely, on the morning of May 15 to 16, around one in the morning, patrols from Salamanca and Retiro detained two Romanians aged 25 and 22 (this second, with three priors), who approached a man from behind. They threatened him with an object that he could not identify and, after struggling with them by demanding his watch, they snatched it from him. They got into a car and fled from the intersection of Ayala with Hermosilla, Alcalá, Plaza de la Independencia, to be hunted in Cibeles.

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