Thieves who used a tow rope and automotive to steal three statues price EUR 300,000 from a fountain in Spain have been seized by police.
The sculptures, created by one in all Spain’s most celebrated artists Manuel Boix, had been taken in two raids on a contemporary fountain in Albalat de la Ribera, in Valencia.
Streetcam CCTV exhibits the gang as one in all them ties a tow rope round one of many figures with the opposite finish lashed to a automotive.
However because the automotive strikes off, the statue stays put whereas the tow rope snaps.
Inside moments one of many crooks has lashed one other rope to the sculpture and tries once more because the footage ends.
Police say in a single raid on fifth August the gang received away with two of the artworks and returned for the third two days later, on seventh August.
Then, in accordance with native media, they got here again once more on twelfth August to attempt to steal extra statues.
Police say they tracked down the gang the identical day after discovering the automotive they’d used at a scrap metallic yard.
Two suspects aged 50 and 55 had been arrested together with a lady who’s suspected of maintaining look ahead to them.
It isn’t recognized what they deliberate to do with the statues as they’d have been immediately recognisable to any artwork vendor.
A Civil Guard assertion on 14th August obtained by Newsflash mentioned: “Three folks arrested for the theft of three statues valued at EUR 300,000.
“The stolen statues had been designed by the artist Manuel Boix and are valued between EUR 80,000 and EUR 95,000.”
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