Francisco Javier Lozano, the head commissioner of the Local Police of Oviedo, addressed a news conference on Wednesday, outlining the specifics of the operation that resulted.
In the couple’s arrest on Monday at 2:45 p.m. Spain had been thrown into darkness by an electrical outrage, which complicated the first investigation of the property.
The father opened the front door when the police arrived, but he urged them to hold off for a few minutes so the kids could put on their masks.
“They were very scared and around the mother, who told us all the time that the little ones had serious pathologies and that we should not approach them,” one officer told the Spanish press.
Each of them was wearing three masks layered on top of the others. They have no awareness of reality at all.
