Antonio Anglés

Antonio Anglés Martins (born 25 July 1966 in São Paulo, Brazil) is a Spanish criminal and fugitive. He lived in his birth country for a year before moving to Spain. According to his relatives and friends, Anglés was known as a habitually violent criminal who frequently beat up his mother. With criminal records for mugging, robbery and drug trafficking, he is best known for his triple offense, "Crime of Alcácer", committed in Alcácer, a town in the Valencian region, in which Desirée Hernández, Miriam García, and Antonia Gómez were allegally kidnapped, tortured, raped and killed by Anglés.

Life

Some raised doubts about the July 25, 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. His parents were Enrique Anglés and Neusa Martins, who were married in February 1959. The couple had nine children and Anglés Martins was the fourth. By 1958, the family transferred to Spain where they resided in Valencia town called Catarroja. Sources show that Anglés Martins started living on his own in 1991 when he moved to number 101 Camí Real Street.

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.

The Alcácer crime

Reconstruction of events

On the night of November 13, 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 also with him. While they were driving along the road they saw three girls who were hitchhiking to a party which the Picasent High School was holding in the nightclub Coolor. Anglés asked them if they were going to the nightclub Coolor and so the three girls got into the car.

When they arrived at the nightclub Coolor, Anglés told Ricart to continue driving. The girls started screaming. Right after, Anglés pulled out a 9 mm short caliber Star gun. He hit them with the butt of the gun and then he tied them up. "El Rubio", as people called Ricart, drove the car to Catadau. This was the area where Anglés used to hide when the Guardia Civil were looking for him. He suggested the half fallen in hut of "La Romana" as a place to take the girls. Two of the girls were raped by both Anglés and Ricart. Later, they decided to tie them up and return to the town to look for food. When they came back, they raped the third girl and then they dug the pit and obliged them to go there, where they shot and buried them. They picked up the cartridges of the gun and cleaned the car.

Ensuing days

From that moment on, an intense search to find the girls began. On January 27, 1993, after heavy rains, the soil softened and the bodies appeared. Two beekeepers that were taking care of their beehives (Gabriel Aquino and José Sala Sala, of 69 and 53 years old respectively) came across the pit. In the ensuing investigation the Guardia Civil found in the same pit the following: one of Ricart's gloves, a social security slip in the name of Enrique Anglés Martins, Antonio's brother, and a gun cartridge.

Anglés was not in his house when the "Guardia Civil" went there looking for his brother Enrique. He escaped and he hid for a month in a Valencian town, harassed by the "Guardia Civil" and the police. He was almost captured in Villamarchante, but he managed to escape the extensive police cordon which had been set up. He appeared again in Minglanilla (Cuenca) some days later, the last place in Spain where he was seen before being subsequently spotted in Lisbon in March 1993. From this point on, there are two theories: The first says that he boarded the boat City of Plymouth as a stowaway, before jumping overboard on being discovered near the coast of Ireland. Thereafter, his trail was lost, and he is believed to have died from cold or drowning in those waters. The second theory simply assumes that in Lisbon he boarded a ship for Brazil, his native country, and he managed to get there and enter the country with his Brazilian passport, since he had dual nationality (Spanish and Brazilian), but the reality is that until the present day nothing is known about his whereabouts.

After 21 years in jail, Ricart was released on November 29, 2013 and was reported to have given a series of interviews where he still maintained his innocence, alleging a conspiracy that pinned him as scapegoat.^[2] The convicted perpetrator, however, remains at large. 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".
• S.B. El País. "Catarroja pide perdón".
• M.A./S.V. El País. "Antonio Anglés, retrato de un superviviente".
• 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".
• P. Muñoz (30 November 2013). "Interpol mantiene a Antonio Anglés entre los delincuentes más buscados del mundo". ABC.

External links

• Completed Photo Albums in Picasa of photographies in "La Romana" (2008-2010-2011)
• Forum Alcasser Case
• Geolocated photos "Autopsia en La Romana" (2010) about the assumed crime scene in Panoramio and Google Earth
• Newspaper Library Alcasser Case
• Report on "Autopsia en La Romana" (2008) about the assumed crime scene
• Videos "Autopsia en La Romana" (2010-2011) about the assumed crime scene in Youtube