Beja: Four registered individuals, arrested after screening in A2. Stolen car, later they fueled and fled.
Four registered individuals, aged 25 and 30 year old, residents in Laranjeiro (Almada), They were arrested on Thursday afternoon after a screening in South Freeway (A2), accused of the theft of a vehicle by carjaking in Fine, Lisbon and later leakage of a gas station without paying, in Service area AlmodĂ´var.
The accident occurred at about 17,15 hours, at km 167 A2, with the Aljustrel node, when they were chased by the authorities, eventually being taken to the Beja Hospital, in a state considered serious.
Already yesterday morning (Friday) one of the individuals was transferred to the Hospital de São José, in Lisbon, two others to the Garcia de Orta Hospital, Almada, all under arrest and handcuffed, with the ambulances to be escorted by soldiers of the Detachment of Traffic and Intervention of the GNR of Beja. The fourth individual was transported, custody, for the Beja Territorial Command.
It started around 09,30 hours of Thursday, in Belas (Lisbon), when the four men, three of african descent, stole an Audi A6 van, by carjacking method, having violently assaulted the driver of the car and removed a baby from 6 months, that they left on the floor, abandoning another previously stolen vehicle.
Individuals are suspected of being involved in a gun theft last week, in the Lisbon area and will have traveled to the Algarve to negotiate the sale of a caliber Beretta semi-automatic shotgun 12 mm, that would be apprehended after the screening.
Returning to Lisbon, fueled in the service area of ​​Almodôvar, running away without paying, and the persecution of GNR, resulted in the detection of the stolen van, that was completely destroyed.
The four men were transported to the Beja Hospital Emergency Department, where about a dozen military personnel from the GNR Criminal Investigation Nucleus were expected, that as the wounded were removed from the ambulances of the Aljustrel Firefighters, Castro Verde and Ourique, were handcuffed to stretchers, to avoid escape.
Lidador News on site (LN) learned from a Guarda source that three of the individuals had been serving prison sentences from where they left during November last year "for armed robberies".
After being contacted by GNR, the owner of the stolen vehicle showed up at Beja Hospital and LN, revealing a great revolt, said that “for what they did to my family, these individuals do not deserve forgiveness. If I could do justice it was here already ”, while seeing "helpless", men leave handcuffed to be transported to other hospitals.
Transporting the wounded to the Lisbon units, three ambulances of the Beja Firefighters were involved and several motorcycles and cars of the Detachment Transit and Intervention of GNR.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
