Couple of robbers arrested in Spain suspected in three investigations in Portugal
The couple of robbers arrested in Spain are the subject of three investigations in Portugal, being suspected of the triple murder of Bragança and armed robbery in Fundão and Algarve, armed robbery in Fundão and Algarve, this Thursday a Portuguese source to the process.
According to a source, Nélida Guerreiro and Sidney Martins, known as Portuguese Bonnie & Clyde, are suspects in three homicides in Bragança, which took place on July 9 and July 20.
According to Jornal de Notícias, Sidney Martins took advantage of the absence of Nélida Guerreiro and a mutual friend of the couple, Carlos Pires, to rob the house of the latter’s parents, killing his mother and assaulting his father, who was transported to the hospital. .
After 11 days, Sidney Martins and Nélida Guer, allegedly drug addicts, will have a defined strategy to re-enter the burglarized house, this time to steal drugs from Carlos Pires and money from his father, culminating in murder, murders with a both facade.
The bodies were discovered in the house, after an alert given by neighbors regarding a house fire, caused by the alleged murderers to cover up the crime.
Sidney Martins and Nélida Guerreiro, still indicted for the assault on a service station on the A23, in Fundão, Castelo Branco district, confirmed the same source to Lusa, confirming that in both investigations no defendants have yet been constituted.
Questioned by Lusa, the Public Prosecutor’s Office replied in writing that “there were inquiries within the scope of which facts established in Bragança and Fundão are investigated, with a view to determining only the authorship of the same”.
The Portuguese duo are also suspected of several armed robberies in petrol stations in the Algarve, from where they went to Spain and committed several other robberies, namely in Seville, Toledo and Badajoz, using the same modus operandi of intimidation with a firearm and a knife. .
Following arrest warrants, not disclosed by the Public Prosecutor’s Office, scope of investigation to be carried out in the DIAP [Departamento de Investigação e Ação Penal] de Faro”, the two suspects were arrested on Saturday, August 13, in Zamora, Spain.
The suspects were recognized by a popular person as they ate one inside the car they had stolen in Madrid and not which they had already placed a false Portuguese license plate.
After being presented for questioning at the Audiencia Nacional in Madrid, the Portuguese duo was in preventive detention, by order of judge Gadea, there will be a decision on the request for extradition to Portugal.
According to the file, to which Lusa had access, Nélida Alves Guerreiro, 40, declared her opposition to the surrender to the Portuguese authorities, under the arrest warrant and presented by Portugal through Interpol. On the other hand, Sidney Pereira Martins, 42, did not contest the extradition.
The arrest warrants released by the Court of Faro do not cover the suspected connection of a triple investigation in Bragança — still by the Portuguese authorities —, being limited only to crimes linked to robberies in Portugal and Spain.
In this context, the order referring to Nélida Alves Guerreiro cites more crimes in the European arrest and surrender warrant, such as “theft, aggravated duress, forgery of documents, possession of a prohibited weapon and dangerous driving”. The document on Sidney Pereira Martins only makes reference to “theft with intimidation”.
In common, the Madrid magistrate underlined in the orders “the absence of reliable and valid justification regarding the roots in Spain” of the two Portuguese citizens, considering that this situation represents “a certain risk of evasion of the action of justice (which must be avoided, in order to guarantee the purpose of the execution of the European.” In this sense, it is understood that all the conditions to justify the preventive detention order are met.
Source of the National Audience explained even today recourse to preventive detention for a period of five preventive measures for an eventual decree by the investigating judge of five Brazilian citizens now. Joaquin Gadea also decided to communicate his decision to the Portuguese consulate in the Spanish capital.