Antonio Anglés
Antonio Anglés | |
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Born | Antonio Anglés Martins 25 July 1966 Alcasser Girls |
Imprisoned at | 1990 |
Antonio Anglés Martins (born 25 July 1966) is a Brazilian-
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Some raised doubts about the 25 July 1966 date of Anglés Martins' birth at São Paulo because the reports of the Spanish Civil Guards and the Police show different dates.[1] Aside from this discrepancy, however, his early life has been documented. He was the fourth of nine children of Enrique Anglés and Neusa Martins, who were married in February 1959. By 1968, the family moved to Spain where they resided in a Valencia town called Catarroja. Sources show that Anglés Martins started living on his own in 1991 when he moved to 101 Camí Real in Catarroja.[citation needed]
He spent two years in prison for kidnapping, chaining and hitting 20-year-old Nuria Pera Mateu in January 1990, apparently for stealing some grams of heroin from him. The woman's life was saved thanks to the intervention of one of Anglés' brothers. Given a chance for social reintegration, he received penitentiary leave of six days in 1992, and he took advantage of it to escape, with the result that he didn't finish his sentence and he was from that point on arrest warrant.[citation needed]
The Alcàsser crime
On the night of 13 November 1992 Antonio Anglés, well known as Asukiki or "Sugar", went for a drive in the Opel Corsa of his friend Miguel Ricart Tárrega (Catarroja, 1969) who was with him. While they were driving along the road they saw three girls who were hitchhiking to a party which the Picassent High School was holding in the Coolor nightclub. Anglés asked them if they were going to Coolor and so the three girls got into the car.
When they arrived at Coolor, Anglés told Ricart to continue driving. The girls started screaming. Right after, Anglés pulled out a
An intense search to find the girls began. On 27 January 1993, after heavy rains, the soil softened and the bodies appeared. Two
Fugitive from Police
Anglés was not in his house when the Civil Guard went there looking for his brother Enrique. He escaped and hid for a month in a Valencian town, pursued by the Guardia Civil and the police. He was almost captured in
In February 2021, the Court of Valencia reactivated the search for Anglés, ordering the ship's captain and a worker from a Lisbon transport company (with whom the fugitive allegedly had a telephone conversation) to be interrogated again.[3]According to the official account, a British sailor named Jo Hannegan caught a stowaway (possibly Anglés) on the City of Plymouth container ship, which was sailing from Lisbon to Liverpool, at around 2.45am on 23 March 1993 (five days after the ship had left Lisbon). The sailor then locked him in a cabin, but when he checked on him at 7.30am the next morning, he found the detainee had escaped through the window. The stowaway was later spotted by a French reconnaissance aircraft drifting on a raft off the coast of Ireland, and the ship circled back to pick him up. He was again locked into a cabin until the ship docked in Dublin later that day, however when the Irish police came aboard to arrest the man he was missing again, this time having used a rope to reach the docks from the cabin window. [4]
After 21 years in prison, Ricart was released on 29 November 2013, and gave a series of interviews in which he still maintained his innocence, alleging a conspiracy that pinned him as scapegoat.[5] According to Interpol's records, Antonio Anglés Martins is still included in its most wanted criminals list. He is described in its database as 1.75 meters tall and has blue eyes. He is charged with kidnapping, rape, murder, unlawful burial, and illegal possession of weapons.
See also
- The Alcasser Girls
- List of fugitives from justice who disappeared
References
- Pérez Abellán, Francisco (2002). Alcácer, punto final: toda la verdad diez años después. Barcelona: Martínez Roca. ISBN 84-270-2913-6.
- F.P.A. Libertad digital suplementos. "El asesinato de las niñas de Alcàsser, violación y más hechos". [1]
- S.B. El País. "Catarroja pide perdón". [2]
- M.A./S.V. El País. "Antonio Anglés, retrato de un superviviente". [3]
- Martínez Laínez, Fernando (1993). Sin piedad. Barcelona: Ediciones B. ISBN 84-406-4178-8.
- R.B.C. ABC. "Los delitos de Anglés no prescribirán hasta 2029". [4]
- P. Muñoz (30 November 2013). "Interpol mantiene a Antonio Anglés entre los delincuentes más buscados del mundo". ABC.
- ^ "Antonio Anglés Martins". El crimen de Alcàsser (in European Spanish). 4 December 2014. Retrieved 5 June 2018.
- ^ López Frías, David (November 2017). "El caserón de Alcàsser 25 años después: aquí asesinaron a las niñas". El Español.
- ^ "La Audiencia de Valencia ordena reactivar la investigación sobre la fuga de Antonio Anglés". Las Provincias (in Spanish). 26 February 2021. Retrieved 1 May 2021.
- ^ "New info emerges on notorious killer Antonio Anglés who may have fled to Ireland". sundayworld. Retrieved 24 October 2021.
- ^ "Miguel Ricart, dos años en el anonimato". Las Provincias (in European Spanish). 10 December 2015. Retrieved 5 June 2018.