The woman arrested by the Police denounced that her bag was stolen after being threatened with a sharp object but ended up confessing that she has financial problems and made it up
The National Police has arrested a 49-year-old woman in Alicante who reported having been the victim of a robbery with intimidation after withdrawing 300 euros from a bank in Alicante and ended up confessing that she had invented everything to collect the money from the insurance company of her house due to the bad economic situation it is going through.
The woman went to the Alicante Provincial Police Station and reported that he took out 300 euros at a bank branch and as she left, she was approached from behind by a man who placed a sharp object on her back and asked her to give him the bag she was carrying. The complainant added that the alleged assailant he stole her bag and ran away. He further stated that he could not see his face to indicate that he was Spanish because of his voice and accent.
The “stolen” bag contained the 300 euros that he had supposedly withdrawn from the bank, a mobile phone and the keys to his home. The woman, to give more credibility to her complaint, stated that when she was approached from behind she thought it was a joke, but that she changed her mind at the insistence of the alleged perpetrator of the robbery.
The Research Group of the Alicante North District Police Station took charge of carrying out the investigations into the alleged robbery and after numerous steps and viewing of images they verified that the complainant had not circulated through any of the streets reflected in her complaint at the times she had indicated.
Suspecting that it was a false complaint, the agents called the woman to take her statement again and at the appearance she finally acknowledged that the reported facts were false. The woman alleged that she had lost her money after taking it out of the bank and that she reported her theft in order to receive compensation from her home insurance for being in a bad economic situation.
Once she confessed the facts, she was arrested for an alleged crime of simulation of a crime. The detainee, after being heard in a statement at police stations, was released pending appearance before the court to hear the case.
The National Police recalls that in the province many arrests are made for simulation of crime and in most cases they are presented for theft of latest generation mobile phones, when in reality it is theft or loss. The complainants claim to be victims of a robbery with violence to benefit from insurance compensation. Detention for simulation of crime generates police and even criminal records for the perpetrators, which can have serious repercussions on the normal development of their personal life.