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An alleged armed robbery gang, one of which threw gold pieces worth half a million euros, was dismantled by the Braga Judicial Police, which arrested six suspects, charging them with, among other crimes, an attempted murder .
The Braga Judicial Police operation took place during the morning of this Tuesday, in several areas, mainly in Guimarães and Valongo, with several house raids, which resulted in the seizure of weapons and other items related to armed robbery.
The main robbery was against a gold merchant in Santo Emilião, in the municipality of Póvoa de Lanhoso, who was ambushed and attacked.
The six men, all street vendors, are suspected of committing crimes of qualified theft with the use of firearms, attempted murder and qualified theft, having been seized during the morning of this Tuesday firearms, ammunition, gold objects , money. , in addition to communications equipment, as revealed this afternoon by the PJ de Braga.
Several domiciliary and non-domiciliary search warrants were carried out. On February 17, in a parish in the municipality of Póvoa de Lanhoso, Santo Emilião, a goldsmith was “violently approached on the public highway, while driving his car, where he was transporting various pieces and objects in gold, at an estimated value of about 500 thousand euros “.
The same police source says that a construction worker saw the robbery and that “a firearm was fired in his direction, but he was not hit by chance.”
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