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A couple of dangerous Portuguese fugitives have starred in a hectic summer of robberies at gas stations in

Spain

and

Portugal

that has ended with their arrest by agents of the National Police and the Municipal Police of Zamora in the hamburger restaurant of a Zamora shopping center.

The detainees,

SAP

, a

42-year

-old man , and

NCA

, a

40

-year-old woman , who have already been baptized by some media as

the Portuguese "Bonnie & Clyde"

, are scheduled to go to court this Tuesday after their arrest on Saturday night when they had a hamburger for dinner at

McDonald's

in the

Valderaduey shopping center

in

Zamora

, sources from the investigation have reported.

Another of the clients of the fast food establishment recognized them and called the State security forces, who days before had spread their photograph on social networks after the chain of

robberies

that they encased, many of them with

violence and intimidation

, wielding the couple

a firearm and a knife

to take the day's collection.

Triple crime in Braganza

The peculiar criminal vacation trip of that Portuguese couple began at the end of July, just after the

crimes of three members of a family

committed in

Braganza

(

Portugal

), in an investigation that is under summary secrecy and in which the now detainees could be implicated.

The chain of

vehicle thefts and robberies

began in the

Algarve

, in the south of

Portugal

, where the Portuguese authorities have reported four robberies, the last of them on July 28 at a

Faro

gas station where they intimidated employees with his most usual

modus operandi

, using him a short weapon and she a knife, to flee with the money in a stolen car.

In that robbery the flight took them to the

Ayamonte

border , through which they crossed into

Spain

and there they began a robbery route with a first stop in the province of

Seville

.

Then they chose a service station in the city of

Badajoz

, which they docked on August 4 and two days later another in

Talavera la Real

(Badajoz).

The trail of robberies with violence and intimidation continued last Monday the 8th at the

Cazalegas

service station (Toledo) and on the run they caused a traffic accident.

From there they moved to

Madrid

, where last Wednesday they stole a car under threat in the

Moncloa

district .

The National Police activated the search for the vehicle and it was found that it was used in a robbery, this time without violence and intimidation, at a gas station on the A-5 motorway in

Torrefresneda

(Badajoz).

From there, it is speculated that they may have either gone up the

Ruta de la Plata

or crossed the border and moved north through Portuguese roads, with their possible involvement in another robbery on Friday in

Fundao

, before arriving this Saturday in

Zamora

.

most wanted

By then, the chain of robberies had generated social alarm and the

Civil Guard

itself had issued a notice with the faces of the two criminals to request citizen collaboration.

This is how one of the customers of the hamburger restaurant recognized the couple, called the Civil Guard and they notified the

National Police

with a description of the clothing they were wearing and the place where they were.

The arrest was carried out without resistance and the man and woman were transferred to the National Police station in

Zamora

, from where it is initially planned that this Tuesday the 16th they will go to court.

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