The Central Specialized and Violent Delinquency Unit of the National Police Corps in Madrid, a specific and professional group that handles matters of great robberies, will participate and collaborate with the Provincial Police Station of Caceres of the National Police Corps in the investigation of the robbery that occurred in the cellar of the Atrio hotel restaurant in Caceres, run by chef Tono Perez , and which has two Michelin stars.
It will be “clarified as soon as possible”, promises the Government delegate in Extremadura, Yolanda Garcia Seco. The theft of Atrio has been made up of the theft of 45 bottles of wine, 38 from Romanee Conti and 7 from Chateau d’Yquem, one of them from 1806bought in London in the year 2000 and valued at around 350,000 euros, according to the restaurant’s wine list.
The robbery occurred inside the premises, without the use of violence, in the early hours of October 26-27. Two subjects would have intervened in the assault.
The wine cellar of the Atrio hotel restaurant, run by Jose Polo and Tono Perez, is considered the best in Spain and one of the best in Europe, since its shelves contain 3,400 references in wines from all over the world.
For the delegate “it has been a very unfortunate event” before which she has shown her “encouragement” to the owners of Atrio for the loss they have suffered in their facilities, at the same time that she has hoped that the “professionalism” of the National Corps of Police in charge of this investigation “allow the culprits to be arrested and, if possible, to recover the stolen merchandise.”
This was the robbery in Atrio
Jose Polo, one of the owners of Atrio along with Tono Perez, has reported an “extremely friendly” lady who was staying at the hotel and had dinner with a man on the night of Tuesday the 26th and around one o’clock In the middle of the morning they asked for something to eat and the person in charge of reception, with the aim of serving them,
The purpose of the request was to separate the receptionist from the viewing of the cameras, a moment they took advantage of to go down to the warehouse and perpetrate the robbery.They accessed it without forcing the two doors with electronic locks, took the bottles and left the hotel around five in the morning.
According to Polo, they realized the robbery around one in the afternoon when the restaurant team was preparing to prepare the food service but, by then, “these people would already be out of Spain,” he lamented.
“It has been like a movie and an extraordinary cleaning”, Polo has stressed, who believes that it is a robbery “by order” because they have gone directly to the crown jewels of the Atrio winery, including the 1806 Bordeaux bottle, which has survived wars and numerous ups and downs . “Part of our history has been stolen from us,” lamented the man who is also responsible for the winery.
“If they take money it is very sad but getting these bottles is an arduous task,” stressed Polo, who has insisted that the bottles are part of the history not only of the restaurant, but of the city of Caceres itself. “We are the custodians of that winery but it was not something of ours, it belonged to the whole city”, Polo stressed,
