The expilot Kuru Villacieros suffers a terrible assault at his home.
Former pilot and businessman Juan Ignacio “Kuru” Villacieros has experienced one of the worst episodes of his life. This Tuesday, around nine o’clock at night, three individuals robbed him when he was alone in his house. While yelling at him “where is the safe”, he was tasered and beaten so badly that he may have lost the sight in one eye.
At 73 years old, Villacieros has experienced a terrible episode. He himself has recounted, just two days later and already from home something that, without a doubt, could have ended worse. “Kuru”, when he was about to have dinner and after opening the door for his dog to go out into the street, he found three hooded men who asked him for access to his safe.
Villacieros was alone at home and received all kinds of blows and electric shocks with a taser gun, something that he remembers as a true nightmare, as he told in an interview on Telemadrid. “Kuru” came to tell them to take the “200 or 300 euros” that he had in his pocket, but the situation got worse.
As if it were a horror movie, Villacieros, who owns a pizzeria and a concessionaire in Las Matas (Madrid), recounts that the robbers threatened to murder his wife when she arrived and also recounts that they put him in a the bathtub, where they put a gun to his head, assuring him that they would throw him tied up in the pool.
Faced with this situation, “Kuru” had no choice but to tell them where they could find more money and valuables, including a collection of watches. According to the information published by “ABC”, the robbers also took between 15,000 and 20,000 euros and his car, which was later found by the Civil Guard.
After the robbers fled, Kuru immediately called 112, and after the ambulance attended, he was transferred to the Puerta de Hierro Hospital in Majadahonda, with injuries to his head, thorax, abdomen and one eye, from which he had need to be operated on urgently, and there is a risk of losing vision.
Despite everything, Kuru has already been able to return home, where he is already recovering from injuries and this huge scare.
Kuru Villacieros, a great pilot
Villacieros has been one of the great talents of our country. Born in 1949, he began racing in the 1970s, when motorsports grew exponentially in Spain, coinciding with the opening of circuits such as Jarama and the support of such important brands as SEAT, Renault and Repsol.
“Kuru” won the R8 TS title in 1972 and Formula 1430 in 1973, before heading off to compete in Europe with the National Formula 3 Team, where for several years he gave it his all, despite not having the right tools. He left the team and threw in the towel, retiring from the competition, since the Federation also decided to sign Fermín Vélez and Jorge Catón for his team.
In the 1980s, he returned to racing as part of Formula Fiesta and later joined the incredible grid of the Spanish Touring Car Championship, where he became champion in 1992.
