Luis F. Durán Madrid

Madrid

Updated Wednesday, March 13, 2024-00:51

Agents of the Municipal Police and the National Police arrested a 35-year-old kitchen assistant and a 30-year-old waiter

last Saturday morning in the Madrid district of Chamartín ,

accused of stealing Iberian products, drinks and food from the Volapié Taberna. from Paseo de la Castellana where they worked and from which they had just left.

They claimed that the owner had given them to them.

The events began when the Municipal Police went to Paseo de la Habana 4, in the vicinity of said restaurant, after being required by a call that warned that

an individual had threatened a boy with a knife.

The agents found two employees of the aforementioned nearby restaurant at the scene, one of them Spanish, a kitchen assistant, and the other, Romanian, who worked as a waiter.

Both showed symptoms of having drunk a lot of alcohol.

They were identified and searched in search of the knife with which they threatened a young man and which was not found.

However, when inspecting their backpacks and a garbage bag, a large amount of expensive gourmet-type gastronomic products from the tavern were discovered, such as

cheeses, sausages, Iberian loins, cans, oils, foie, octopus, meatballs, cheeks, lean .

The merchandise was worth more than 500 euros.

Both said they had permission from the business owner to take those products.

The Municipal Police soon located the manager of the Taberna del Volapié restaurant to verify the origin of the food products.

He stated that the item corresponded to the establishment and confirmed that the people carrying it were workers there,

without having authorization to take this perishable material, so it had evidently been stolen from the restaurant.

They were arrested after handing over the keys to the premises they were also carrying.

They were very drunk.

Several of the products stolen by the workers.EM

According to police sources, the knife with which they supposedly threatened the boy after leaving the premises had to be used to cut the Iberian loins, since, otherwise, they

would not fit in the backpack due to their length.

The two had just left the restaurant where they worked, whose closure occurred around 2:00 a.m. on Saturday.

Both confessed that they had a few drinks in the establishment as if it were an "open bar."

The manager of the establishment told the municipal police that he had been

suspicious of their behavior for a long time

.

After drawing up the corresponding minutes, all the material was delivered to the person in charge of the premises who took it to the establishment.

Likewise, he stated that a knife was missing from the restaurant's kitchen.