07/28/2020 - 16:05
- Clarín.com
- Police
The Chilean police finished upsetting in the last hours a gang of criminals led by an Argentine , who was dedicated to robbing companies and private houses with extreme violence. They called themselves "The Country Band" and used names of nations, in the style of the La Casa de Papel series.
Last Friday, detectives from the Robbery Investigating Brigade (BIRO) and the Rancagua Investigative Police arrested "Belgium" , a 24-year-old man who is the ninth and last member of the dangerous gang, according to the newspaper the digital newspaper. Andes Online from Chile.
The band started acting about three months ago, after the health emergency was declared due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Their method was very violent: they entered houses and companies in the O'Higgins region regardless of the presence of their owners and took all kinds of valuables, hitting and tying up the victims .
According to Andes Online, "to commit their crimes they used unusual violence, causing damage to buildings, intimidating their victims with pistols, revolvers, shotguns, knives, and even with the tool called a combo, handcuffing some and even threats of death or death. rape those who made up their families. "
The leader, according to the Chilean authorities, is a person of Argentine nationality , arrested on July 1 in the municipality of San Fernando. The man was considered "one of the intellectual authors of the robberies and would maintain his irregular immigration status, in addition to having a history of similar crimes."
The first recorded robbery of the famous "Country Band" occurred on April 18, and since then there have been 20 more crimes between April and early June. All of them were in the communes of Rancagua, San Fernando, Nancagua, Coinco and San Francisco de Mostazal.
The criminals, in addition to using names and nicknames from the popular Spanish series, also covered their faces and published videos of their robberies on social networks.
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