Struck against the elderly: Family found guilty in a wide range of hjemmerøverier

the COURT IN NYKØBING FALSTER, denmark (Ekstra Bladet): Four out of five members of a Croatian family is exactly known culprit in the so far most comprehensive case about the hjemmerøverier in Denmark.

The Croatian family was with a family friend accused of a total of 26 cases of hjemmerøverier committed on Zealand and in Jutland from 2016 until autumn 2017.

The defendants have the matter denied the guilty, but it is the police theory, that the parents were to plan and prepare hjemmerøverierne, while the family's sons took care of the 'dirty work'.

It is a unanimous jury as of Wednesday morning has reached to skyldkendelsen against four of the members of the family in 24 of the cases, while the 37-year-old family friend is found guilty in three cases.

at the same time, selected the court to acquit the family's youngest son at the age of 18 years.

- Røverierne has most often been directed against the elderly or sick people, who lived alone, and they are the issue on the night of the in rule two persons, said the president Jesper Stage Thusholt, as during the reading of the skyldkendelsen had to take several breaks.

the List of atrocities in the 27-page indictment against the Croatian family from the island of Lolland-Falster is also long.

A place describes how a married couple of 80 and 76 years in four and a half hour lay bound in their home in the Site at Nykøbing Falster with duct tape and cable-strips on the hands and feet.

the Pair were gagged with rags in the mouth and duct tape was wrapped around the head and mouth. First, at eight o'clock in the morning, it was helpless married couple found a home helper.

Since the Croatian family once again struck against a married couple in 69 and 58 in Herlev, denmark, was the man threatened to get the testes cut off and was beaten in the head with a eight kilograms heavy stone and a lamp and was stepped on the foot, so he got multiple injuries. Subsequently, the couple tied the hands and feet and around the mouth with wires and torn sheets.

Proceeds of the røverierne has been very variable, but runs according to the police up in the several million dkk.

- Røverierne are often committed close to a highway and teleoplysninger and ANPG-data (Automatic nummerpladegenkendelse red.) indicates that there is often found a reconnaissance takes place prior to the røverierne, said the court's ruling.

The Croatian family were arrested in november 2017. When the police struck their house crammed with costs, which can be traced back to hjemmerøverierne and 11 burglaries.

the Court is expected to decide the punishment in the case later in the day.