The Civil Guard has arrested a woman in her 50s, a neighbor of Tui (Pontevedra), as allegedly responsible for the burning of dozens of cars at dawn this Monday in the same Galician town.
As sources from the armed institute have confirmed to Efe, the woman was arrested early in the afternoon and is in the Civil Guard facilities in Tui, where she is being questioned before going to court, which will probably happen between now and tomorrow.
The images from the cameras at the scene, the old part of the city, have been fundamental in the investigations of the Civil Guard, which is trying to clarify the motivation of the woman behind this procedure that has shocked all of Tui.
According to information from the Civil Guard, “family disagreements” underlie the behavior of the woman. The arrested woman is being investigated for a “continued crime of damage”, the Armed Institute has limited itself to communicating.
The alarm went off at 3:45 in the morning, when the emergency services began to receive calls because several vehicles were on fire in the historic center of the city.
The first call that 112 received was to warn that three cars were on fire in the Plaza de la Armada, but the calls began to come in from different parts of the old town describing similar scenarios.
Finally, the affected cars were located in five different parts of the city, specifically in the areas set aside for parking in Plaza de la Armada and on Tide, Ordoñez, Calvo Sotelo and Piñeiro streets.
Of the affected cars, 21 were completely burned, and another five show significant damage.
In addition, the facade of a house hit by a car still on fire was also affected.
The situation, according to 112, required a reinforced response, for which means and resources were mobilized both on one side and on the other of the “line”, the border, with Portugal.
Thus, from Portugal, the Firefighters from Valença came, while from Galicia, the Firefighters from Baixo Miño and Ponteareas, the members of the GES from Mos and the Civil Protection volunteers from Tui, Salceda and Tomiño were mobilized.
The mayor of the town, Enrique Cabaleiro, has described this Monday as a “very serious criminal action” what happened this morning in Tui.
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