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The minor has been investigated that allegedly made some graffiti in the Cultural Interest
The Benemérita has had the collaboration of the local police of Alcantarilla and Murcia
The Civil Guard of the Region of Murcia, under the 'Plan for the Defense of Spanish Historical Heritage', has developed the operation 'QANTARA', an investigation that has resulted in the clarification of a crime of damages in the Aqueduct Las Sewers of Alcantarilla and the instruction of the corresponding proceedings to a minor of the type investigated for crime of damages against the Historical Patrimony.
Last June, the Civil Guard began the operation following a complaint filed by the Cultural Historical Association of Alcantarilla "Legacy," in which reported the completion of a total of eight paintings graffiti type in the Aqueduct of the Zorreras , Located in the municipality of Alcantarilla.
The aqueduct is dated in the high medieval period and, since 2010, has enjoyed the protection granted by its declaration as a Property of Cultural Interest (BIC), with cataloging of Monument.
Its owner, the Board of Ranchers of the Orchard of Murcia, to have knowledge of the facts, as a legal person harms, also adhered to the complaint filed.
In order to clarify the crime and due to the difficulty of reaching the authors of the graffiti, the Civil Guard requested the collaboration of the Local Sewer Police and the Anti-graffiti Equipment of the Local Police of Murcia.
From that moment a fluid collaboration between the two bodies was established, which allowed to narrow the siege on the possible authors and to obtain a positive result thanks to the detailed study and analysis of graffiti as well as of the databases and files.
The line of investigation was based on graffiti painted on the canvases of the Aqueduct.
It was an identity icon of the author: his tag or signature.
In this case he signed with the word "BUCK".
Parallel to the development of the operation a minor was surprised in the vicinity of a company from the Murcian village of Espinardo when he made mural paintings, whose theme was the name of BUCK.
At that time he was involved in a dozen or so paint spray cans, as well as a folder in which he compiled a series of sketches or models, which showed different possibilities of making murals, always with the same name as an example.
At that moment he told the agents that he was the one who signed the graffitis made in the capital and surroundings with the tag of BUCK.
Fruit of the close collaboration, the Local Police of Murcia informed the Guardia Civil of the identity of the young person who supposedly signed with the same tag that the graffiti of the aqueduct.
At that moment, the investigators of the Benemérita initiated a series of actions, whose final results have taken to gather sufficient indications to instruct diligences to the minor like presumed author of crime of damages against Historical Patrimony.
In most cases, the realization of a painting graffiti type on a property is typified as a mere thinning of the property in question, being sanctioned by it at the administrative level.
In this case, when carried out on a monument, the damage could be irreparable and even carrying out a thorough restoration process carried out by experts, the internal structure of the cultural property would be damaged, a circumstance places these facts within the criminal sphere, being Cataloged as a crime of damages against the goods that make up the Spanish Historical Heritage.
The investigated and the investigations have been made available to the Prosecutor's Office of Minors of Murcia.
The operation is framed in the 'Plan for the Defense of the Spanish Historical Heritage', launched by the Civil Guard and which involves carrying out specific service devices in order to increase the security of the Spanish Historical Heritage and reduce criminal activity In this sector.
Source: Ministerio del Interior
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