"Operation Danube": GNR captured Romanian gang who have "acted" in Beja and Vidigueira.
Six individuals were arrested, on Friday, on suspicion of dozens of robberies establishments, petrol stations, farms, houses and jewelers, from north to south of the country, with the county of Beja and the Vidigueira been "swept" by the Romanian gang.
In a statement, GNR revealed that the six individuals, aged 21 and 41 year old, were arrested in Ferreira do Alentejo zones, Sines and Elvas as part of an investigation conducted by the Criminal Investigation Section of the Operations Intervention Group of the Special Intervention Unit (UI),
Research, coordinated by the Department of Investigation and Penal Action (DIAP) Lisbon, going on for four months, and detainees, "All the same foreign nationality", the Lidador News (LD) was found to be of Romanian citizenship, "They were part of an organization that is dedicated to theft in shops and industrial, farms, houses and jewelers, during the night ".
Source close to the investigation told the LD that the group made assaults on "Mombeja establishments and Matthias", still possible to ensure that have been responsible for "various assault" at a gas station in Vidigueira.
The operation, designated as "Danube" concluded "with the arrest of the assailants and recetador", having the military Guard complied to six house search warrants and four search and seizure in vehicles.
The GNR seized "various jewelry in silver, 720 euro cash, 32 kilograms of tobacco and 147 smartphones”, according to the statement referred to in.
Fonte da Guarda, He advanced that "most of the detainees have a criminal record by the practice of criminal association crimes, theft and armed robbery, and one had been expelled from the country in 2011 ", concluded
In operation, They were committed 50 Military, belonging to the actual UI, the Directorate of Criminal Investigation of the GNR and Territorial Command Setúbal and Portalegre.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
