The investigation to find out the fate of the 45 bottles is still open. At least one part would have already been sold | One of the authors had been arrested three times between 2019 and 2020 for very similar events
The National Police followed the two alleged perpetrators of the robbery in Atrio through half of Europe for six months until their arrest last Monday in Gruda, Croatia. The investigation is still open to find out the whereabouts of the 45 bottles that were stolen from the cellar of the Cáceres restaurant. The hypothesis handled by the police is that at least part of them would have already been sold. The two detainees did not carry any of them at the time of their arrest. Both are still being held in Croatia. And it is estimated that in about ten days they will have already been transferred to Spain, where one of them has three open court cases: the one in Cáceres and two others in Madrid courts.
The alleged perpetrators of the robbery committed in October in Atrio are a 47-year-old man who has dual nationality, from the Netherlands and Romania, and a 27-year-old woman of Mexican nationality.. The man was arrested up to three times between 2019 and 2020 for similar robberies, although none of them were as mediatic as the one committed in Cáceres.
Until at least two months after the robbery they could not be identified. Since then it is known that they traveled through several European countries, by road and using false documentation. It was not until last week that they could be located in Slovenia and across the border with Croatia. At that time, the court that is conducting the judicial process for the robbery in Cáceres issued the arrest warrants. The couple moved to Montenegro, but it was last Monday, when they re-entered the territory of the European Union, when they could finally be arrested.
After committing the robbery last October in Atrio, the couple continued for a few days in Spain, they have their residence in Madrid. But then they went to Romania. They returned to Spain in February, due to the death of one of the man’s daughters, and for the rest of the time they have been moving through different countries in Europe: France, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and Eastern European nations. “We have been seeing how they moved around different countries in Europe, we knew that they spent a lot of time in the Netherlands, but also that they were not in the same place for a long time,” explained Luis Carlos Caballero, head of the Judicial Police brigade of Cáceres, during the public appearance this Wednesday of police charges to give details of an investigation that “has been complex because a good part of European territory has had to be covered,” explained Alfredo Garrido, superior chief of the National Police in Extremadura.
The investigation will remain open until the reception channels for the goods stolen from the Cáceres restaurant are clarified. In the appearance, no further details were given about the possible destination of the 45 bottles, it was only insisted that it is “in the investigation phase” and it was indicated that the alleged perpetrators may have been moving from one place to another with the benefits obtained. with the sale of the stolen wines. When they were arrested in Croatia, they were traveling in a car with German license plates.