Five men were arrested Thursday evening as suspects in the Aug. 18 robbery of singer Miguel Bosé's home in Mexico City's Rancho San Francisco neighborhood. The Minister of Citizen Security, Pablo Vázquez Camacho, has reported that after carefully monitoring the group's criminal activities, investigators arrested them while they were driving in Periférico Sur, not far from where the robbery of the singer took place. “They attacked us, they tied up my children, the household staff and me for more than two hours,” Bosé wrote on his social networks the day after the robbery. The singer said that a group of ten people entered his home in a luxury urbanization in the mayor's office of Álvaro Obregón and stole jewelry, cash and a truck.
Authorities' hypothesis suggests that it was a group dedicated to stealing homes in high-end neighborhoods. Vázquez Camacho has assured that the suspects could be linked to other robberies in the states of Veracruz, Puebla, Guanajuato, the State of Mexico and Nuevo León. The suspected thieves were identified as Rolando N., Joel Steven N., Edward Jadir N., Fernando N. and Manuel Antonio N. At least one of them, the secretary assured, was of Colombian nationality. The group carried weapons, cocaine and tools such as ropes, mallets and shovels.
The arrest of suspects must not stop now. Vázquez Camacho assured that in the images from the neighborhood's surveillance cameras they observed the entry of at least eight people dressed in black and wearing face masks to hide their identities. According to the official report, the thieves entered the residential area at 9:16 p.m. and over the next two hours took out two suitcases containing the stolen items, which they moved to other vehicles. The thieves entered the urbanization, where the properties are worth 60 million pesos (about 3.3 million euros), through a side door, so they were not discovered by security personnel.
Bosé, 67, said in El Hormiguero in September that the attack was led by a woman and that the armed group had threatened to collect any valuable items. In the house were the singer, his two 12-year-old children, a friend of theirs, the domestic worker and a security guard. Bosé reported that the minors were separated and that he tried to mediate with the criminals to lead them to the lockers. This earned him the sympathy of the thieves, so much so that one of them confessed his admiration. “He took off his mask and said to me: 'I'm your fan,'” Bosé told host Pablo Motos.
Miguel Bosé moved to Mexico in 2018 after being on the Spanish Finance Ministry's blacklist of defaulters. She has since relocated to the Mexican capital and sent her two children, Diego and Tadeo, to a private school in the city. The singer argued that his move to Mexico was to protect his and his family's privacy. The urbanization where he suffered the attack was classified as a high-security settlement, so authorities no longer had access to it after an initial call for help. Bosé assures that he will not leave the Latin American country despite the bitter experience. “And to those who are speculating so much that I will leave Mexico: I am very sorry to disappoint you. “Here I am and here I will stay, in the most hospitable country in the world,” Amante Bandido’s interpreter wrote on his social networks.
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