Cáceres (EFE) the two defendants, Constantin Dumitru and Priscila Guevara, are subjected to questions from the parties.
After the interrogation, it will be the turn of the testimony of the witnesses. According to the lawyer for the defendants, Sylvia Córdoba, around a dozen national police officers and judicial experts have been summoned, as well as many other employees of the Atrio restaurant.
Both the Prosecutor’s Office and the private prosecution consider that Dumitru, 48 years old and with Romanian and Dutch nationality, and Guevara, 28 years old and a native of Mexico, arrested at the end of July 2022 at the Karasovici Sutorina border post, coming from Montenegro , are the authors of a crime of robbery with force, aggravated by the high value of the wines.
The Public Ministry requests a sentence of four years and six months in prison for each of the defendants and demands compensation for the injured of 1,648,500 euros. The private prosecution, represented by the insurer of the bottles, raises the sentence to five years and one month in prison, and requests compensation of 700,000 euros, according to lawyer Rafael Montes.
Expert evidence will play an important role in assessing and evaluating this economic difference. The first amount responds to the amount that was noted by the owners of Atrio, Toño Pérez and José Polo, days after the robbery, while the second is adjusted to the compensation that they have been able to collect through the insurer.
