It was five in the morning on Saturday morning. Two hooded men entered a house with a gun and a knife in the Tabac urbanization, on the outskirts of Alguaire (Lleida), where a couple in their eighties lived. They beat the man, he believes that, with the gun, they tied up the woman, took them down to the basement and left them locked up while they robbed. They took money and jewelry.
The victims have told the mayor of Alguaire, Imma Roca, that the thieves took them down to the storage room, gave them two chairs to sit on, and locked them up. For two hours they heard noises and did not move. “When they no longer heard noises, the man, with a knife that he found in the storage room, cut the grill of a ventilation outlet and was able to leave the house. After freeing the woman, she called her daughter, she notified her neighbors so they could come and help them,” the mayor explained.
The man and the woman were sleeping, the man woke up, saw some lights and asked who was there. The robbers hit him in the face. He has a bruise. They tied the lady up. The thieves told them to give them the money, as they knew they were a very rich family. They insisted that they couldn’t be rich because they had been workers all their lives and were retired.
The elders also explained that they believed that in addition to the two hooded people, who spoke in Spanish with a foreign accent and among themselves in a language that they did not identify, there were other people outside, because the assailants at times spoke very loudly so that they could be heard. someone from outside the house.
According to Imma Roca, the victims do not rule out that the robbery is related to what happened on Friday afternoon, when the woman was giving food to the cats in front of the house and a gray car stopped. The occupants asked him many questions. They wanted to know if any houses were rented in the area and if there was surveillance.
Several patrols and ambulances from the Medical Emergency System attended the scene and the Mossos d’Esquadra deployed a device on roads such as the A-14 and the N-230 to try to locate the criminals, according to Segre.
