Flying Squad will face organized thieves bands that aim the best British soccer players after a wave of attacks

The Flying Squad de Scotland Yard is being recruited to deal with organized thieves' bands that aim the best soccer players in Great Britain after a series of attacks.

Last month, the Manchester City star, Joao Cancelo, revealed horrible facial injuries after being attacked by four thugs that, according to him, "tried to hurt" their family.

Now, the Met Police elite unit faces Purple raids after a series of incidents that involve celebrities due to the extensive knowledge of the squad on organized crime and its ability to use firearms.

The unit, famous on the television series of the 1970s The Sweeney, has focused so far on commercial robberies and armed hand robberies, and was behind the great robbery of the train.

A Flying Squad team recently met an Italian trio that blatantly stole articles worth more than 26 million when the houses assaulted, including that of the heiress of F1 Tamara Ecclestone and former footballer Frank Lampard and his wife Christine.

According to a MET document that describes the tasks of the squad, he described how the team's duties had "expanded from commercial theft" and persecuted the "high damage offenders."

The Superintendent of Detectives Simon Moring, who runs the squad, told the Times that the participation of the unit was not related to the victim's state.

However, the team will be called when it is suspected that it is an organized crime with robberies made with a "high degree of sophistication."

"They are the gangs that have done their research," he said to the environment.

«They pass the strong security.They need to do it [The Loot] outside the country and will have to fence slowly.

"We observe the work with a high level of conspiracy or violent crimes."

It occurs after the socialite Tamara Ecclestone promised not to leave her daughter alone at home after her mansion was looted in the greatest robberies in the history of Great Britain.

The house of the heiress of the F1 in Kensington was raided by a criminal gang, which stole a total of 26 million pounds in cash and jewels of celebrity houses in a matter of days.

Jugoslav Jovanovic, 24, and the experts of jewelry thieves Alessandro Maltese, 45, known as the "Pink Panther", and Alessandro Donati, 44, also attacked the house in western London of the former chelsea Frank FrankLampard and his wife Christine.

They also broke into a property of Knightsbridge owned by the late owner of the Soccer Club of the city of Leicester, Vichai Srivaddhaanaprabha.

The three admitted conspiracy to steal the properties last year at Isleworth Crown Court.

Police said it is believed that the gang committed similar crimes against high -profile victims throughout Europe and that it had planned to commit more raids against the rich and famous in the United Kingdom.

Fulfish swap

The three were extradited from Italy and declared themselves guilty of conspiracy to steal between November 29 and December 18, 2019 by the three raids.

Jovanovic also admitted conspiracy to commit money laundering between December 10, 2019 and January 31 of last year, and a position to try to convert criminal property.

He was imprisoned for 11 years by Judge Martin Edmunds QC in the Isleworth Crown Court on Monday, while Maltese and Donati were each sentenced to eight years and nine months in prison.

For his part, Joao Cancelo shared a snapshot of his mistreated face after being "assaulted by four cowards" while protected his family at home.

The Manchester City star, 27, told her two million Instagram followers along with a photo of her head cut and a bruised eye in December.

Cancelo suggested that he tried to defend himself, claiming that he "showed resistance," since the thugs threatened his partner Daniela Machado and his daughter Alicia, two, before escaping with jewels.

Last year, Arsenal Gabriel's defense was "shocked" by the attempted robbery at home.

The thieves followed the defender and his friend returning home in Barnet after a party night in August and demanded the keys, the phone and the clock after he left his mercedes.

And in May 2020, Tottenham's Deli there was beaten by thieves armed with knives that broke out while the ace played pool with his girlfriend and his brother before leaving his with his with watches and jewels worth thousands of pounds from theHouse of £ 2 million of the star.