A criminal group that traveled from Poland to commit robberies in homes in the provinces of Malaga and Alicante has been dismantled by the Civil Guard in an action in which four people have been arrested, who have been placed in provisional prison without bail by court order. .
The operation began last May, when the analysis of the evidence collected in a robbery with force in a home in the Malaga town of Benahavís allowed the agents to identify four men of Polish origin as the alleged perpetrators of the crime, as reported by this Wednesday the armed institute in a statement.
After spending several days in the province of Malaga, they all returned to Poland on a flight that they had not previously booked. The agents found out that these men were the alleged perpetrators of another robbery in another home that occurred days before in the Malaga municipality of Casares.
In both, an exhaustive study of the homes had been carried out, which suggests that the thieves knew the movements of the residents, the existence of valuable objects and data on the security devices. During the investigations, the agents learned of five other robberies committed in the aforementioned towns, although they did not follow the pattern of those carried out by this group.
Last September, investigators arrested two men as alleged perpetrators of these five robberies, two in homes, two thefts from vehicles and one theft inside a building under construction, and were able to recover effects for an amount exceeding 47,000 euros.
These arrests could have been decisive, according to the Civil Guard, for them to choose to change the area where they would commit their next crimes, since the four members of the group had traveled by plane to Alicante on September 21 to commit their next robbery.
The Civil Guard found out on the day that they planned to return to their country from the Levantine coast and detained them at the boarding gate of Alicante airport where they were waiting to take the flight back to Poland.
In their hand luggage they carried 4,480 euros in cash and 52 pieces of jewelry, some of them from robberies committed in Pilar de la Horadada and Torrevieja (Alicante), whose value exceeded 30,000 euros.
One of the detainees was subject to a European arrest and surrender warrant issued by the Netherlands for the commission of nine crimes of burglary in homes, which shows that this group used roaming to commit crimes in European countries.
Those arrested in this operation were placed at the disposal of the judicial authority, which ordered all of them to be placed in provisional detention without bail.