The most hateful face of the natural disasters They are the criminals who seek to take advantage of this circumstance. The National Police has established in Valencia a special device dedicated to preventing looting in stores and homes that have been affected by the effects of DANA, according to police sources. They got up. This Wednesday they made their first arrests. 50 people have been arrested, several minors, in interventions that have also included the participation of the Civil Guard.
The police sources consulted by Vozpópuli explain that the surveillance device will have a high impact in the areas affected by DANA. Wednesday night caused numerous criminals to take to the streets to appropriate other people’s property. Both destroyed cars and open houses, and they also broke store windows taking advantage of the fact that the alarms do not work due to power outages.
A surveillance device
The balance of the first night of robberies was 50 detainees, including several minors. The National Police carried out 39 and another 11 the Civil Guard. These surveillance will continue until Monday, when the situation will be reconsidered again, depending on how the next few days go. It is hoped that this operation will curb the desire for crime of undesirables who try to take advantage of the tragic situation.
The first assaults occurred in towns such as Aldaia (Valencia). In this municipality, the National Police arrested five men who stole more than 80 jewels for an amount greater than 30,000 euros. To obtain these items they broke the glass of a store in a shopping center in the municipality.
The location was Bonaire Shopping Center and the authors moved by motorcycle. In the end, officials from the Crime Response Group (GRIC) managed to arrest them and they are accused of a crime of robbery with force and another against authority.
This surveillance device is made up of Judicial Police and Citizen Security agents. The objective is to protect the assets that have been left, worth the abundance, unprotected by the brutal effects of DANA.
The Prosecutor’s Office will request prison for the looters
The Civil Guard has also reinforced controls in different parts of Valencia to prevent these criminal acts. The TSJCV decreed provisional prison for four of those arrested for the looting. They have been accused of aggravating the situation that caused the passage of the DANA. They will face three years in prison.
In this sense, the key, according to legal sources, is that the Provincial Prosecutor’s Office will request prison for all those detained for these events. This means a ‘warning for sailors’ and that no one tries to take advantage of the tragedy caused by the storm.
The Ante-Mortem Office
On the other hand, on the first floor of the National Police Headquarters the Ante-Mortem Workshop intended for reports of missing persons and appearances of patrols that locate deceased. A dozen agents work there to expedite the procedures for a tragedy that will have hundreds of victims.
The final death toll will not be known until a few days later when all the rural areas are combed and it is possible to find out what happened to all the missing people. For the process of identifying the victims, the national protocol for medical-forensic and Scientific Police action in events with multiple victims is being followed, according to police sources.
The Scientific Police agents, fought in a thousand battles and with the tragedy of the fire still in their retinas, will not have complicated identification tasks. In this type of case, the National Police transfers a team of IVD specialists to the scene. (Identification of Victims in Disasters). In addition, the victims are centralized in a corpse treatment center, in this case at the Institute of Legal Medicine of Valencia.
For identification, lists of missing persons are prepared to be able to compare the necro reports with official documents that have a fingerprint. The process with Spanish citizens when having a fingerprint on their DNI is quick. In the case of the victims of the DANA storm, being recent and complete corpsesthe majority will be able to be identified in a short time, according to these police sources.
Source: www.vozpopuli.com
