Mérida (EFE).- The Provincial Court of Cáceres has sentenced Constantin Dumitru to four years and six months in prison and Priscila Guevara to four years, both accused of stealing 45 bottles of wine from the Atrio hotel-restaurant in the capital of Cáceres.
To those convicted, as perpetrators responsible for a particularly serious crime of robbery in an establishment open to the public, it also imposes joint and several compensation of 753,454 euros, the Extremadura Superior Court of Justice reported in a statement on Monday.
The Court considers as proven facts that the two defendants, by mutual agreement and in order to obtain an illegal benefit, decided that the woman should stay at the Atrio de Cáceres hotel on October 26, 2021, a place they knew from having been previously planning the robbery.
The reservation was made solely by the woman using a false Swiss passport, which she carried in a backpack, which, when taken by an employee, through an oversight on her part, observed that it had no weight.
The sentence indicates that the man later showed up to have dinner and stay at the hotel without registering.
After dinner at the hotel restaurant, they took a guided tour of the winery and then went up to their room.
At around 2:10 in the morning, the defendant called reception to ask for a salad and in the conversation with the only employee who was in the hotel-restaurant at the time, she repeatedly asked how long it would take to be served.
The employee stated that he was alone and the kitchen closed and, surprised by the request, since they had dined a 14-course tasting menu, at the insistence of the defendant he agreed to the request, although he indicated that it would take at least 20 minutes to serve the salad.
At the time he went to the kitchen, the defendant took the opportunity to go to the reception, where he took an electronic key with which he went to the cellar, but was unsuccessful in opening it because it was not the right key.
From the door of the cellar, the defendant made a call to the woman to return to entertain the receptionist, who had already returned to his job after bringing the salad to the woman.
The defendant then repeated the call to reception, this time to request a dessert, to which the employee once again objected, but finally agreed to bring her some fruit.
The defendant returned to the reception and from a box took the master key number 27, with which he opened the cellar and accessed the tasting room, where he seized the 45 bottles of wine that he kept in a backpack and two large bags. size, and immediately went up to the room before the return of the employee to the reception.
The defendants hurriedly left the hotel, around 5:00 am, according to the sentence; the man with 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 clinking between them.
The sentence is not final and against it it is possible to file an appeal before the Civil and Criminal Chamber of the Superior Court of Justice of Extremadura.