2023-10-04 10:04:37
“I am very sad about everything and feel very helpless”. It was the first thing she managed to say. José Brasa Sanjurjo as soon as he responded to the phone call from FARO, from the Prensa Ibérica group. The former field hockey coach of the women’s national team in Barcelona ’92, a gold medalist in those Olympic Games, not only said goodbye to his mother, who died last Friday in Vigo. Some thieves took advantage of the family trip to the olive city from Pozuelo de Alarcónwhere they reside, to raid their house and take loot that contained the replicas of the two Olympic gold medals –his and that of his wife, Virginia Ramírez, player of the award-winning national team.
Descendants of the famous Antonio Sanjurjo BadíaBrasa’s mother was the last living granddaughter of the engineer and inventor of the submarine preserved in the Museo do Mar. Her dream was to reach the age of one hundred, but María Jesús Sanjurjo He was three months away from fulfilling that wish. Upon hearing the news, his son took the first flight from Brussels – where he coaches a men’s hockey team – to travel, via Madrid, to Vigo with Virginia Ramirez and say goodbye to his mother.
“She was very old and very weak, but fortunately she was never sick and died asleep in her bed.”says his 72-year-old son, whose family residence is in Madrid, relatively relieved. “I was born in Vigo, I lived in Canceleiro street until 5 years old, when my father passed away. Then my mother wanted to leave that house and we moved to number 123 García Barbón Street,” Brasa remembers with nostalgia.
The hockey coach was staying in the Olympic city until Tuesday, but his wife decided to return to the capital last Sunday on the last flight. from Peinador, to return to his job Spanish Olympic Committee. When she arrived at her house Pozuelo de Alarcón He found the steel mesh of the fences broken, the entrance to the house and its windows open, all the drawers jumbled and the property completely dilapidated. Their home had been robbed. It had remained without its inhabitants for just over 24 hours, since the son of the coach and the former player, Guillermo, had traveled to Galicia by train on Saturday afternoon.
“They stole things that are very sad to lose and that are not of much use to thieves either. They want to destroy and annoy for no reason”
“They took the replicas of the gold medals that they gave to Virginia and me, in addition to a lot of badges and medals of merit that they awarded me throughout my career in Galicia, Andalusia, in my first hockey club, in the Federation… In short, things that are very sad to lose and that are not of much use to the thieves either. The thing is that they only went for the gold, they did not take laptops or large objects. “It’s the desire to destroy and annoy for no reason.”José laments.
“It hurts us because of the sentimental value”
He clarifies that everything was insured, “but the economic value in this case is unimportant; It hurts us because of the sentimental value.” The Scientific Police were at the assaulted residence this Tuesday and concluded that it would be professional thieveswho have worn gloves at all times, and they have left no traces. They went straight for the valuable things they could sell or merge. The fence cables were cut with pliers, and they forced their way into the window of Guillermo’s room, the couple’s son.
Virginia’s original medal, safe
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The only good news of these last bitter hours that the Brasa Ramirez is that the friends of others They couldn’t take the medal that Virginia won in that delivery ceremony when the entire national team climbed to the top of the podium. “That is the original one, which they only give to the players, and we had it anchored to the wall with a security that was very difficult to defeat, protected with glass and some keys for its anchoring system.”
The lgolden marriage They already consider their medals lost, exact gold replicas of the originals, which also have the central part of 100% pure gold.
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