Efe Barcelona
Barcelona
Updated Friday, April 5, 2024-18:52
The
Mossos d'Esquadra
have arrested three people, two 18-year-old men and a minor, accused of having stolen a bicycle from cyclist
Miguel Induráin
valued at 6,500 euros, which they recovered and returned to him this Friday.
As reported this Friday by the Generalitat Police, in the early hours of March 18 in La Pineda, in Vila-seca (Tarragona), there were two robberies with force inside a vehicle and damage to two other parked cars. in the same area.
The detainees were looking for valuable objects and inside the van they found Induráin's bicycle who was in La Pineda with his team to prepare for the
Titan Desert Morocco 2024 race,
which will be held between April 28 and May 3.
The police efforts and the collection of information by the Mossos allowed the identification of the alleged perpetrators, one of them, with a history of similar events. Once the perpetrators were identified, agents from the Urban Crime Group at the Salou police station (Tarragona) arrested them during a prevention device in the
La Pineda beach area
.
Around 10:30 p.m. on March 27, the plainclothes officers saw two men carrying a bicycle, so they identified themselves as police officers and, although both individuals tried to flee and showed resistance, they intercepted them, detained them and a knife intervened. The Catalan police were able to verify that the bicycle they had with them was the one that had been stolen days before. The next day, the agents carried out the third arrest, in this case of a minor, who also participated in the abductions.
The two adult detainees were handed over to the Tarragona investigative court on March 28, while the minor was brought before the Juvenile Prosecutor's Office.