David Vigario

Updated Friday, February 2, 2024-21:31

  • Trial The accused of the robbery in Atrio: "Where are the bottles I wonder, if I am the thief?"

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There was no miracle. Since they were detained by Interpol on July 18, 2022

at the Karasovici Sutorina border crossing

, when they were trying to access Croatia from Montenegro in their vehicle, it became clear that it was an impossible case to defend. The case of the million-dollar theft of the 45 luxurious bottles from the famous Atrio restaurant, in Cáceres, has since gone around the world, a

film

theft that contained all the ingredients to become a successful series. As the Netflix platform is trying, and not only it, but also some other Dutch production company. Although

both José Polo and Toño Pérez

, the exquisite and always hospitable owners of the hotel-restaurant (three Michelin stars), have always refused to participate.

Since its creation in December 1986, this gastronomic Olympus has been

a suggestive event and a constant pilgrimage

for great international lovers of wine and select food, having 4,100 references and 37,000 bottles from 21 countries. Among the looted ones - whose total listed value

exceeded 1.6 million euros

- was the owners' right eye: the legendary Chateay Dyquem 1806, valued at 350,000 euros.

The two convicts, during the trialJero MoralesEFE

The British media

Daily Mail

and

Daily Mirror

and

The Guardian

were accredited to follow the trial of the robbery in the Provincial Court of Cáceres, which

was held between February and March 2023

. The main protagonists - Constantin Gabriel Dimitru (48) and Priscila Lara Guevara (29) - had fled with the loot - kept in two bags among

hotel

bath towels -

at 05:00 in the morning on October 27, 2021. Nothing is known. He didn't know about her until the following summer. When they were arrested, and digging into their resumes, it turned out that the pair of lovers had a more than surprising past. The Romanian citizen with a Dutch passport, the ideologist of the plan (he received

five more months in prison

than his girlfriend, 4.5 years for him, and 4 for her), had a record of theft crimes (up to four times and also related to bottles).

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The TSJ of Extremadura confirms the prison sentence for the two accused of the theft of the Atrio bottles

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The TSJ of Extremadura confirms the prison sentence for the two accused of the theft of the Atrio bottles

He also had another conviction for a crime of injuries in the area of ​​domestic violence. She,

without a criminal record

, had been a presenter on Mexican television, after winning the

Miss Earth beauty contest of the State of Mexico

in 2016. Then she made the leap to Spain (Marbella) and became an erotic model with a page contacts included.

To complete the media circle,

Sylvia Córdoba

, a doctor in Criminal Law and a lawyer specializing in matters of immigration and political asylum, appeared in the corridors of the Cáceres courts in August 2022 to defend them, although her fame in the pink magazines came from having She was,

almost to the altar, the girlfriend of Judge Santiago Pedraz

, a relationship that ended like the rosary of dawn.

"You don't always win, but we have done everything possible," Sylvia Córdoba confesses to LOC this week. She fought first to have them not found

guilty, despite the evidence,

and then to reduce the sentences. She also tried unsuccessfully to have them tried for theft and not for "serious robbery of a public establishment." The ruling considers that the evidence for the prosecution is "

overwhelming

, that there is direct and indicative evidence and that it is solid and plural."

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Sylvia Córdoba, the stellar return of Judge Pedraz's previous partner to defend the Atrio thieves: "I am not his ex, he is my ex"

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Sylvia Córdoba, the stellar return of Judge Pedraz's previous partner to defend the Atrio thieves: "I am not his ex, he is my ex"

The images from the establishment's cameras, where Constantin (with a mask) and Priscila (this one

with a wig and a fake Swiss passport

) appear; telephone monitoring of their cell phones; the statement in the trial of the only worker who was at the hotel at dawn; also the testimony of the police agent who ended up discovering Constantine's face in the recordings and who was later in Barajas after his arrest in Croatia, plus the DNA evidence found of the two in the toilet in room 107 of the hotel, next to the traffic cameras at km 218.75 of the A-5 highway, which

detected the Mercedes A-180 vehicle with which they fled

from Cáceres, were in the judgment of the sentence irrefutable evidence that the super lawyer came across, who recommended to her clients who did not testify at trial.

together

A source from the investigation confirms to LOC that the search for investigations is stopped and "at a standstill." Constantin declared as soon as he landed in Spain when he was deported that

he had been trying to sell the bottles

on the Russian black market. He wouldn't talk anymore. Then, the sentence ensures that in the tapped telephone communications the brain speaks of a possible sale to the US, but there is no trace of them right now. "She, the weakest,

has ended up holding up well in prison

, she has not collapsed and the two have remained strong and united." That is to say, she has not

sung

, probably because her release on parole (this summer marks two years since her entry into prison) is already close. "It's not worth it to them."