Six of the detainees, four men and two women, were present at the Court of Beja after the deadline for 48 hours for presentation to the Criminal Investigation Judge. were identified and released. In Aljustrel two defendants for receipt.
The six detainees present at court are citizens of East, residents of Badajoz and due to the submission outside the legal deadline, have been notified to appear in court next Friday, after being released.
In the Aljustrel operation, the GNR detained the seven individuals in flagrante delicto selling olives to two recipients, of 22 and 23 year old, who were made defendants. According to Lidador NotĂcias, they will have delivered 1.000 kilos of olives, for which they received 50 euros, the olive was not seized due to lack of evidence of having been stolen.
Beja's GNR stopped 15 people and seized 1760 kilos of olives that had been stolen in that municipality and in Aljustrel, as well as vehicles and machines used to harvest that fruit.
The first operation took place, Sunday, Criminal Investigation through the core Aljustrel, and allowed the detention of six men and three women, aged 21 and 44 year old, who were detected picking the olive, without being authorized to do so by the owner.
Following police investigations, They were seized 500 kilos of olives, 50 euros in cash, two vehicles and various material related to the harvesting and collection of olives from the ground. The nine detainees were made defendants and the facts communicated to the Judicial Court of Aljustrel.
In Beja, soldiers from the Territorial Post of Moura, arrested, Saturday, six men aged between 16 and 42 year old, they too caught stealing olives.
They were seized 1 260 kilos of olives, four manual machines for picking olives from the ground (commonly known as hedgehog) and two vehicles.
Since the start of the Olive Campaign 2022/2023, whose picking started the day before 15 October, have already been stolen 40.177 pounds, in 14 thefts in several olive groves in the municipalities of Beja, Moura and Aljustrel, arrested 62 people, including nine women, aged between 16 and 61 years, seized 19 Car, including a top-of-the-range BMW and 11 manual machines for harvesting olives from the ground. Nine men and two defendants were also identified., these by receipt and seized 50 euros from the “transaction” of the olive stolen and received by the two individuals.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
