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Portuguese football coach Roberto Martínez.
The coach and his wife were not at home during the robbery. Authorities do not rule out the possibility that the robbery has been committed by an international gang specialized in this type of thefts.
The dwelling of the national football coach Roberto Martínez, in Cascais, was the target of a millionaire robbery last Saturday, during the absence of the coach and his wife. According to the interior of the housing, a Collection of 12 luxury clocks and various jewelrywith a total evaluated in more than one million euros.
According to the complaint made to the authorities, the theft will have occurred between 16h00 and 20h00period when the couple was not at home. The robbers will have been breaking into one of the dwelling doors and, once inside, rolled several divisions looking for the highest goods. Police sources believe that the thieves knew beforehand that the house would be unoccupied in that time, according to.
After the complaint, a Cascais PSP criminal investigation team moved to the scene to collect expert traces, including fingerprints and other potential indications left by the intruders.
Police do not rule out the hypothesis that the robbery was committed by an international gang specialized in this type of scams. Several inquiries conducted by the Public Prosecution Service have revealed the presence, in the national territory, of organized groups that They act on small and discreet cellswith extensive criminal registration and strategies that minimize the traces left in the places. In these cases, stolen objects are often the target of “orders” and quickly go to receivers abroad.
Theft of Roberto Martínez’s collection appears in a context in which Luxury clocks have been frequent targets of robberies in Portugal, both in homes and in the middle of public roads. In April this year, the Lisbon Department of Criminal Investigation (DIAP) accused two men of integrating a gang that specializes in violent thefts of this type of pieces. Recently, Daniel Gregório and Liliana Filipa was also robbed at the Algarve, with the thieves leading a clock of 20,000 euros.