FOUR men dressed up as Santa Claus held up the Apple shop in Valencia, making off with a large number of iPads, says head of public safety Juan Carlos Moragues.
Speaking last night (Saturday), Moragues said the thieves escaped at high speed – despite the city centre's now having a 30-kilometre-per-hour limit – in a car which had been stolen on Wednesday night from Manises, where Valencia airport is based.
They used it at around 14.00 on the day after pinching it as a getaway car, and it was found burnt out on the main road towards Riba-roja de Túria, close to Manises and Valencia.
A fifth man had been waiting in the stolen vehicle whilst the four Father Christmases stormed the shop.
Moragues says the four Santa Clauses burst into the premises, shouting at all customers inside to get down on the floor.
It is not known whether they were armed, but no weapons were seen and nobody was hurt.
