The next few hours will be decisive for Gueter, the sixty-year-old German torn between life and death in hospital after escape the double crime of two masons committed by two Polish squatters in Elche last Monday.
The alleged criminals had already been arrested up to three times. The last one, a few days ago, for entering the same chalet in the La Marina district of Elche, where the German workers were fatally beaten.
The perpetrators were arrested yesterday after 8 p.m. cut off at home and a deployment of more than 80 members of the Civil Guard and Local Police.

Gretuel, a retired biker who lived in an urbanization also called La Marina, but located in the municipality of San Fulgencio, is in critical condition in Elche hospital and could be the third victim after receiving violent blows to the head.
“They hit him on the head with a stick. They told us that the next few hours will be decisive in knowing if he survives,” explains a friend of the victim in a small German bar that the man frequented.
The chalet where the brutal attack took place was rented by a Dutch girl who wanted to spend the Christmas holidays in this luxurious house and stay there until February.

Officers with balaclavas and bulletproof vests at the scene of the double crime.
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As EL ESPAÑOL learned, the woman went shopping last week and when she returned she found the two men without a shirt and shorts inside.
A friend of the woman points out that “She was very scared and called the police.”
As research sources confirm, the men were “arrested three more times for these events”. However, when they were released the next day, they returned, taking advantage of the fact that the owners were in Germany.
During your stay They damaged gates and fences, So the owners called a mason, who came with an associate, and Gueter to go repair it and take a look.

Officers arrest one of the suspected murderers.
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They were the in charge of house surveillance during the prolonged absences of the owners, who had already suffered several thefts and wanted to put an end to illegal entries.
“They came to scare them away”
This newspaper was able to contact the owners through an intermediary. The owners are very affected by the double crime and they specify that “the thieves had destroyed all the metal bars”.
“Of the two people who were supposed to watch the house, we are in the hospital in danger of death,” they regret
“One of the deceased, an acquaintance of a friend of mine here in Germany, who also owns a house in La Marina, had recommended the mason to us. He was supposed to install new doors in our house“continues the owner.

One of the alleged murderers entered the Civil Guard car.
They entered the house probably with the idea of being able to scare away the thieves. “It cost them both their lives. They would have been better off waiting for the police.”. “We don’t know why everything became so violent.”he adds.
The shock caused by the news means that they cannot “Don’t even think about traveling to Spain”writing.
Repeat offenders
In La Marina, no one knew the alleged murderers. In an area full of independent chalets and where foreign residents predominate, notably Germans, Dutch, Russians and Belgians, Polish They went unnoticed by the neighbors.
But not for the authorities. They had been handcuffed three times recently, then release them after a few hours.
The mayor of Elche, Pablo Ruz, showed his indignation and deep concern due to the illegal occupation of housing and the response of the justice system.
Ruz described “very serious” and “scandal”“that these people returned to the streets after the previous arrests.
According to him, this recurrence “it cost the lives of two people”which shows that “laws make water”.