Posted on 08/22/2023 4:40:42 PM PDT by nickcarraway
THIEVES escaped with thousands of litres of olive oil from a factory in the Teba municipality of Malaga province on Wednesday, August 16.
Operating under the cover of darkness, the criminals took advantage of the factory’s remote location and managed to disable the facility’s security cameras and alarms before gaining entry during the early hours.
As reported this Tuesday 22 by malagahoy.es, some of the stolen oil was already packaged while the rest of it was bottled up by the crooks. The theft went unnoticed until the workers started arriving at around 7 am the same day.
In addition to making off with bottles of oil that had already been bottled previously by the workers, the alleged thieves also reportedly filled more containers themselves and even left the taps running when they made their getaway.
Around 6,000 litres of oil were lost
According to sources from the affected company, between the litres of oil stolen and wasted, the total amount of oil the company lost came to approximately 6,000 litres.
‘Part of the product was scattered around the factory and logically that oil can no longer be used for consumption’, lamented one of the company’s partners.
They also revealed that the alleged perpetrators stole various items of furniture that were inside the mill. These included utensils that had been bought just a day before the incident to do a wine tasting for a group of about 50 Lithuanian citizens. ‘They have also done a lot of damage to the packaging machinery. It was all upside down’, explained the partner.
The robbery was ‘something totally exceptional’ Teba Council assured that the presence of the security forces has been intensified in the area due to the fact that this factory is located: ‘on rustic land, totally isolated’.
They emphasised however that this incident was ‘something totally exceptional. In the little more than five years that the mill has been open, the only thing that has happened is a fire that did not affect the factory’, they recalled.
Meanwhile, the ROCA group of the Antequera Guardia Civil has launched a full investigation into the event in order to determine the circumstances surrounding the theft.
A part of the stolen product was located in Sevilla province just 24 hours after the robbery. However, it was not revealed if any arrests were made in connection with the discovery.
The price of olive oil is rising in Spanish supermarkets Olive oil is currently an expensive product to purchase in Spain as can be seen by comparing the prices on supermarket shelves.
According to a statement from the ASAJA Alicante on Friday, August 3, the production of olive groves is down. This is being blamed by the producers on the inclement weather which is negatively affecting the crops.
‘This, together with the fact that we came from a disastrous campaign, means that there is no stock, and therefore the prices of olive oil are skyrocketing on the supermarket shelves’, they pointed out.
‘The product is exactly 86.4 per cent more expensive than in this same period of 2022. In fact, ASAJA Alicante considers that the price will continue to rise in the coming months’, said the organisation.
Good ole Malaga… wherever that is? Mexico?
Spain
"I know nothing." ~ The Vilna Gaon (Elijah)
‘They have also done a lot of damage to the packaging machinery. It was all upside down’, explained the partner.
It's a mystery, but look at the bright side. OIL upside down is סוד,
710 as it were. The "שית" in Bereshit.
Aren't you glad I could help? /s
This just in today for the new "Word of the Week" series:
Furthermore, beyond their innate ability to throw off the shackles of social conformity in their quest for truth, children have a special spiritual sensitivity as well. This, too, is reflected in the word naar, which is etymologically connected to the word uri, meaning to wake up.6000, eh? "In the Teba municipality." It's all good..In Jewish tradition, children are seen as symbolically representing and naturally embodying this state of spiritual awakeness that adults must consciously cultivate and seek to regain.
Such an inborn spiritual sensitivity in children is referenced numerous times by the Sages, such as in the assertion4 that it was the children who first recognized G‑d’s presence at the Splitting of the Sea, even before Moses, Aaron, and the elders!
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A fascinating Midrash8 on the Purim story relates an episode in which Mordechai, after learning of Haman’s decree to annihilate the Jews, asked three young school children what they were learning...
Where's the vision??
Those guys were pretty slick. A bunch of greasy characters, I’m sure. They just slid in there and slipped away.
It’s in Southern Spain.
This story may sound funny, but the Spanish practically live on olive oil and cook everything with it..but it’s almost doubled in price in the last couple of years. The thefts are for the black market.
Bidenomics worldwide. The shutdown - ordered by Trump under the influence of Fauci and the WHO and extended by Biden and his globalist cronies - destroyed economies all over the world, and this is felt even in seemingly unimportant things like the price of olive oil.
Thanks for the location clarification, and I totally agree with you on the Covid scam and destruction of the world economy because of it. Fauci did in two years what no other evil person on Earth could ever dream of achieving.
Popeye and Bluto are ticked off.
The names of some suspects are Olive Oyl, Olivia Newton-John, Oliver Twist and Olive Trees. They are collectively known as the “Stinky Slippery Gang”.
They are known to hang around local Salad Bars.
They’ll be adding charges when they found out the olive oil wasn’t virgin anymore.
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