CHILLING details of World Cup winner Angel Correa’s robbery reveal that armed thugs locked his family up during the raid.
The four masked men also made their terrified victims hand over their mobiles so they couldn’t call police during the ordeal on Saturday night.
Civil Guard investigators are looking into the break-in at Atletico Madrid striker’s home in Boadilla del Monte, a 35-minute west of Madrid city centre, and have yet to make any arrests.
Yesterday the news broke about the horrifying incident which occurred around 9pm on Saturday, January 13.
Further details of the crime emerged overnight.
El Confidencial, which claimed to have accessed details of the police investigation, said the four intruders got into the three-storey property through a ground-floor window.
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The La Liga player’s long-time partner Sabrina Di Marzo, 28, and their three daughters Lola, seven, Luz, two, and Lia, who will be one next month, were taken by surprise as they were relaxing at home.
After taking their mobile phones off them, they reportedly shut Correa’s long-term partner and children in a downstairs room.T
The footballer was then ordered to take the criminals to an upstairs safe at gunpoint which the armed robbers emptied before fleeing the property and making their getaway in a car waiting for them outside driven by a fifth suspect.
The criminal gang took six designer watches from the safe worth thousands of pounds as well as jewellery and a “considerable” amount of cash, reported respected Spanish news website El Confidencial.
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The Argentina International’s forward is said to have raised the alarm after releasing his loved ones and making sure they were safe.
Fortunately no-one was physically injured.
Neither Correa or his partner, who also comes from the port city of Rosario in Argentina, have yet made any official comment on their social media.
The footballer was a last-minute inclusion in the World Cup winning Argentina team in Qatar last year after Nico Gonzalez suffered an injury.
Correa, said to be considering a huge £52 million contract over three years to play in Saudi Arabia, becomes the latest in a long list of LaLiga stars to fall victim to break-ins.
In October former Manchester United and Chelsea striker Radamel Falcao was targeted.
Several men broke into his property in an upmarket suburb of Madrid while he was enjoying dinner with his family at a nearby restaurant.
The 37-year-old father-of-four, regarded as one of the greatest Colombian footballers of all time, had scored a last-gasp penalty earlier in the day to secure his current side Rayo Vallecano a valuable point at home against LaLiga rivals Mallorca.
The intruders are said to have taken designer bags, watches and some jewellery before being surprised by an employee and fleeing.
In June 2019 former Chelsea frontman Alvaro Morata’s wife Alice Campello was confronted by armed intruders while she was alone at their home north of Madrid with a nanny and twins Alessandro and Leonardo, then aged just one.
They took valuables and family momentos.
The Italian beauty admitted afterwards she would be “afraid for a long time to come.”
She said in a social media message: “I think this is one of those things that are not easily forgotten, one of those things that makes you realize how much love and life is worth.
“Knowing that you have your children at home and thinking they can touch them or do something to them is really an inexplicable emotion.
“Fortunately we are all well and know it could have been much worse.
“They have stolen so many memories but it’s over now.
“Now I will try not to think about it and think about our family and try to forget.”
Correa, whose Atletico contract runs until 2026, came off the bench to play half-an-hour at the Al-Awwal Park in Riyadh on Wednesday as they lost to rivals Real Madrid in a thrilling Spanish Super Cup semi-final.
The 14-times European Cup winners beat Barcelona 4-1 last night to be crowned champions.
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The Argentina international is said to be “open” to a move away this month after becoming frustrated at not being used by Atletico Madrid as often as he would like.
The Saudi Pro League club said to have offered him a lucrative contract has not been named.
Source: Soccer - thesun.co.uk
