Sentenced to four years in prison those accused of the theft of wine bottles in Atrio

The Chamber sets the joint compensation that the convicted persons will have to pay to the insurer at 753,454 euros

CÁCERES, March 6 (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Provincial Court of Cáceres has sentenced the accused of stealing 45 bottles of wine from the Atrio restaurant in the capital of Cáceres, which has three Michelin stars and three Repsol Suns, to four years in prison to four years and six months in prison. Priscila Lara Guevara, as perpetrators responsible for a particularly serious crime of robbery in an establishment open to the public.

In addition, they must jointly and severally compensate the insurer Reale with 753,454 euros, which reached an agreement with the owners of Atrio, whom it compensated for the value claimed and which also coincides with the price of the expert opinion that was carried out on the wines that disappeared. from the cellar of the famous restaurant from Cáceres.

The Provincial Court considers as proven facts that the two defendants, by mutual agreement and with the purpose of obtaining an illegal benefit, decided that the woman should stay at the Atrio de Cáceres hotel on October 26, 2021, a place they knew for having previously been planning the event on June 1, June 13 and August 12, 2021.

The reservation was made solely by the woman using a false passport carrying only a backpack that, when Priscila was taken carelessly by an employee, observed that it had no weight.

The sentence indicates that later, the man showed up to have dinner and stay, without registering, at the hotel. After dinner in the restaurant located in the same, they had a guided tour of the winery and then went up to the room.

At about 2:10 in the morning, the defendant called reception, asking for a salad and repeatedly asking how long it would take for it to be served to the only employee who was in the hotel-restaurant at the time.

The reception employee, after refusing to carry out the order, stating that he was alone and the kitchen closed and surprised by the request, given that they had dined a 14-course tasting menu, at the insistence of the defendant agreed to the request, indicating that it would take at least 20 minutes to serve what was requested.

The employee went to the kitchen, a moment taken advantage of by the defendant, who went to the reception where he took an electronic key with which he went to the cellar, failing to open it because it was not the right key. The employee, after raising the salad, returned to reception.

The defendant, seeing that the key would not open the cellar door, made a call to the woman in the room from the cellar door to return to entertain the receptionist.

Thus, moments later, the defendant repeated the call to reception, this time to request a dessert, to which the employee once again objected, finally agreeing to bring her some fruit.

The defendant returned to the reception and from a box took the master key number 27, opening the cellar with it, accessing the tasting room where he seized 45 bottles of wine that he kept in a backpack and two large bags with which who immediately went up to the room before the return of the employee to the reception.

The defendants hurriedly left the hotel around 5:00 a.m., the man carrying the backpack on his back and the two bags with the bottles, in which he had inserted four towels from the bathroom of the hotel room to prevent them from rattling among themselves, climbing to a vehicle, conclude the proven facts of the sentence.

The sentence, handed down by the court of the Provincial Court of Cáceres, chaired by magistrate Joaquín González Casso, is not final and an appeal may be filed against it before the Civil and Criminal Chamber of the Superior Court of Justice of Extremadura (TSJEx).

It should be remembered that the trial for this robbery was seen for sentencing last Wednesday after three sessions in which some 16 witnesses passed through and four experts who provided evidence, such as the DNA of biological remains found in the bathroom of the room where they stayed and that they coincided with the defendants, as well as the recordings of the security cameras or the control of the telephones that place them in the hotel the night of the events.