Jose F. Sanchez |
Madrid (EFE).- El Goyito, El Niño Juan or El Piojo are some of the pseudonyms of famous aluniceros that appear on the list of “trophies” -in the form of multiple arrests- of the Group XXI of the National Police in Madrid, a team of about twenty agents who are the brake on the most experienced criminals in the Spanish cradle of the moon landing.
Among those policemen whose work requires “exclusive dedication” are Borja and Moisés, who also highlighted in an interview with EFE the “comradeship” that exists in a group that is so demanding due to the “pressure” of insecurity generated by the crimes that try to clarify.
Availability to this type of crime
“The type of crime – organized robbery in establishments, in transport vehicles or assaults with explosives in ATMs – forces you to have an availability that is not so necessary in other investigation groups,” says Borja from his private center of operations, in whose corners are still piled up some of the effects seized from the Child Juan, recently detained.
As an example, they give one of their colleagues who has been on paternity leave for several weeks, but who followed the news of the group through his WhatsApp chat and appeared at a check-in and search without receiving any order or request.
They face the most specialized crime, that of several generations of moonlighters and robbers who in recent decades have made the Community of Madrid, especially the southern neighborhoods of the capital, the cradle of robberies carried out by drivers behind the wheel of high-end cars.
Veterans like Niño Juan himself, arrested for the umpteenth time last June after stealing with his gang more than 1.3 million euros in mobile phones in a logistics warehouse, continue on the streets while the young people who follow in his footsteps debut with their first “sticks” (robbery).
In disadvantaged neighborhoods with luxury clothes
“They live in the most disadvantaged neighborhoods of Madrid, but they go to Serrano street to buy at Gucci or Louis Vuitton.” This is how Moisés, one of the most experienced members of Grupo XXI, defines the lifestyle of the most famous aluniceros.
These police officers know them closely and mark a profile: “young, born into broken families, ostentatious, with no appreciation for money and supported by their closest environment.”
In the “world” everyone knows each other, either because of the family relationships that exist between some of them or because of the bonds they forged in reserved areas of discotheques and in prison, where most of them have spent at some point in their lives dedicated to crime. .
However, “it is increasingly difficult to obtain convictions,” laments Borja, since, as he explains, the criminals are “sophisticating” their security measures, although the agents of Grupo XXI try to “keep up or, at least , just a little step behind.
idealized delinquents
One of the particularities of these moonlighters and robbers is their media coverage, something that some, especially young people, “attracts”.
The most inexperienced also “dream”, according to Borja and Moisés, of giving “sticks” hand in hand with the most famous criminals, but both agents agree in concluding that they are “idealized”.
“The best are here (in Madrid), but we know their routines and we know where they are most vulnerable,” adds Moisés.
Some of the most veteran aluniceros continue in that “loop” of assaults, investigations and arrests against which this group from the Madrid Police Headquarters is fighting, since “it is profitable for them”, although “there are nights when they go out on duty”, that is, they spend more than the value of what they have stolen, slips one of the agents.
On the opposite side of that crime wheel will always be Grupo XXI, a special team that, thanks to the success of its operations, more policemen want to join.