Nearly 60,000 liters of red wine worth an estimated €2.5 million were lost at a renowned winery in the Ribera del Duero region of central Spain after an individual be introduced there to open tanks, depending on the operation victim of this act of sabotage.
Video surveillance images provided by this
“bodega”
(cellar), Cepa 21, to AFP show an individual wearing a jacket with a hood going from one tank to another to open them, pouring out the appellation wine of controlled origin that they contain on the ground.
“Do harm for the sake of harm”
The facts occurred on Sunday around 3:30 a.m. in this wine company located in Castrillo de Duero, near Valladolid (north of Madrid), the company said.
In total, 60,000 liters, or 80,000 bottles, of this high-end vintage were lost, said Cepa 21, which filed a complaint.
In addition to the economic loss,
“it is an attack against the workers of Cepa 21, against our wine growers who struggle to obtain the best grapes
,” lamented the company's president, José Moro, on Spanish public television on Tuesday. (TVE).
“It’s doing harm for the sake of doing harm, on the part of someone who must not be very balanced, without common sense and with hatred
,” he judged.
“Everything indicates that this person knew where she was,”
he added, indicating that he had transmitted a list of suspects to the Civil Guard, who confirmed to AFP that they had opened an investigation.