The Mossos d’Esquadra are looking for three individuals, possibly from Eastern Europe, who last Sunday afternoon, hooded and dressed in black, assaulted a couple arriving at their home, on the outskirts of the city of Girona, and tied them up. and violently attacked the couple.
The victims ended up admitted to the Santa Caterina Hospital in Salt due to the injuries they suffered. According to sources close to the case, the events took place around 4 p.m. in an isolated house, located in the area adjacent to the neighboring town of Vilablareix.
The couple, between 60 and 70 years old, had gone out to eat and were returning to their home. Just as they were deactivating the alarm, three individuals, who were apparently waiting for them, jumped on them and asked them to open the safe.
The three assailants, equipped with balaclavas and gloves, searched the entire house and took the woman to the bedroom where they tied her with ropes and belts, hit her on the head and caused open wounds on her hands, and also tied up and attacked her husband. .
While waiting for the victims to update the complaint, the thieves managed to take, among other things, jewelry and a firearm that the man had at home, since he is a hunter. The three assailants, although it is not ruled out that another was waiting for them outside, left the house without anyone seeing them.
A few hours later, the husband managed to untie himself and go out to ask for help, still with plastic handcuffs on his wrists, and bleeding from the wounds caused by the thieves. It was then that a person passing through the Vilablareix industrial estate saw him and immediately alerted the 112 emergency telephone number.
The Mossos went to the house to carry out a visual inspection and collect all possible evidence and clues to identify the perpetrators of the assault. For their part, members of the Medical Emergency System (SEM) performed the first treatments on the couple and took them to the Santa Caterina Hospital in Salt, where they were both admitted, although the woman was able to be discharged on Monday and the husband the same day. following.
The agents of the Criminal Investigation Division (DIC) of Girona who have taken charge of the case, have taken statements from the victims and have begun to analyze the images from the cameras of the companies in the industrial estate near the house in case any of them could having captured the assailants. The Girona guzgado that was on duty on Sunday has taken charge of the investigation of the case.
