Provisional prison and without bail for the couple arrested for the millionaire robbery in the cellar of the Atrio restaurant

• Events A man with two arrest warrants and a miss, alleged perpetrators of the theft of 45 exclusive bottles from the cellar of the Atrio restaurant

• The facts A movie robbery and millionaire dismantles the luxury cellar of the Atrio de Cáceres restaurant

Constantine Gabriel Dumitru

(47 years old) and

(28), arrested at the Croatian border on July 18 accused of stealing 45 bottles of wine from the famous cellar of the

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restaurant , will today spend their first night in the prison of the capital of Cáceres.

This has been decided at around 3:00 p.m. this Thursday by the

of Cáceres, which has decreed the communicated provisional prison and without bail for the two alleged perpetrators of stealing the select bottles valued at 1,648,500 euros on last October 27.

The judge, after an oral hearing that lasted just over an hour and in which the defendants did not answer the questions from the

's Office , ordered provisional detention based "on the seriousness of the penalties that could be imposed, the high risk of escape and the criminal reiteration, existing, in the case of the man", an injunction from a

for a robbery perpetrated in an establishment in the Spanish capital, according to sources from the Cáceres court.

Constantine Gabriel Dumitru, alleged perpetrator of the robbery.INTERIOR

The two investigated - the Romanian-Dutch citizen and the former Miss Mexico - are charged with the crime of robbery with force in an establishment open to the public with the possible concurrence of two specific aggravating factors: the high economic value and the cultural and artistic value of what was stolen, collected, according to the prison order, in articles 235.1, 235.5, 237, 238, 239, 241.1 and 241.4 of

.

The alleged perpetrators were arrested in Croatia during an international police operation after issuing the

the Court of First Instance and Investigation number 4 of Cáceres, which is investigating the case, which is still ongoing.

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The bottles still don't show up

The proposal for provisional detention and without bail had been requested from the Prosecutor's Office, which considered that there was an obvious risk of flight, an issue that the defense denied, represented by the lawyer

.

The lawyer has defended the innocence of her clients and has argued during the oral hearing held in the statement room No. 3, that the accused couple has nothing to do with the theft of the bottles -which still do not appear-.

In addition, she has explained to the media that at the time of her arrest they were preparing to spend "a vacation", but that at no time was it her intention to flee from Justice.

"They have been here (in Spain) for many years, they have a localized address and there is no risk of flight," said Sylvia Córdoba, who has taken charge of the defense of the Romanian-Dutch citizen and the former Mexican miss as soon as they stepped on both Spanish territory on Thursday afternoon on a flight from Dubrovnik to be transferred immediately to the Cáceres Police Station, as EL MUNDO reported.

They spent the first night in Spain in the dungeons of this police station before being transferred to the Palace of Justice in Cáceres, where they entered in a police van at 10:48 in the morning.

Then, in the oral hearing, as expected, they have accepted their right not to testify and have only answered some questions related to their situation in Spain that the defense lawyer has formulated.

"We are talking about an accusation of robbery with force whose maximum sentence is six years", Sylvia Córdoba pointed out to journalists, who has also based herself on this type of "not so serious" accusation as a reason for not entering the jail.

She also asks about the couple's constant trips to various European countries for nine months to avoid being located by the Police, the lawyer pointed out that "that is what is said, but it must be proven."

It must be remembered that as soon as they were identified by the security images of the Atrio cameras, in January of this year -three months after the robbery, which occurred in October-, the Police went to the apartment where Constantine Gabriel Dumitru lived, but they could not be located because they had already fled from Spain.

black market

The Madrid lawyer considers that her clients have already spent two weeks in the Croatian prison before being extradited in "very unfortunate" situations, for which she has also reported that she will request that they be transferred as soon as possible from the Cáceres prison to Madrid to be closer to their usual place of residence.

"Right now they are being the big losers because they haven't had a trial, they haven't been convicted."

Before the statement, since their arrival at the Cáceres courts, both defendants, like last night at the Police Station, have been located in separate cells.

While the legal case continues, the police investigation follows the trail of the bottles, for the moment without a favorable result, and that they could have been sold by order on the black market as one of the hypotheses being considered.

In any case, police sources consider -according to what they have pointed out to EL MUNDO- that they are not surprised that today, due to their defense strategy and at this procedural moment, they have refused to testify, but they do hope that, above all, Priscila Lara Guevera could end up "collapsing" and confessing the whereabouts of the bottles, especially thinking about the risk that her family in Mexico could run if it is suspected that she has been able to seize important economic loot.

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