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Real Madrid hotel guarded by armed cops after family of Gareth Bale’s fiancée targeted in arson attacks

Armed surveillance officers kept watch over Real Madrid ’s hotel rooms after Gareth Bale ’s fiancée’s family were targeted in an arson attack , the Sunday People has learned.

The team were staying at Gran Canaria’s Santa Catalina hotel on Friday night with swarms of police preparing the venue and its surroundings for their arrival.

As players including Cristiano Ronaldo and Gareth, 27, slept in rooms on the third floor, which was entirely booked out for the squad, a team of four surveillance specialists from the Seguridad Integral Canaria paced immediately outside their doors throughout the night, with truncheons and handcuffs hanging from their belts.

Huge teams of police officers armed with guns were also drafted to oversee their stay, and lined the entrance to the hotel for their arrival. Vehicles filled with officers accompanied the Champions League footballers as they prepared for a La Liga clash against Las Palmas tonight.

Hotel Santa Catalina, Gran Canaria
Real Madrid are staying at Gran Canaria’s Santa Catalina hotel

It comes after Gareth’s fiancee, 25-year-old Emma Rhys-Jones, was said to be fearful she could be targeted after a string of arson attacks on her family.

A car was torched at dawn outside the home of her aunt Annabella Williams in Flint, Wales. Four days earlier, one belonging to her grandparents John and Eva McMurray. Their windows were reportedly smashed by bricks. Petrol was also poured through the letterbox of another aunt, Jane Burns.

The attacks are claimed to be suspected “gangland” incidents, and it has been reported they relate to a missing suitcase of money.

North Wales Police have reportedly charged a 22-year-old man with criminal damage and arrested a 54-year-old woman on suspicion of making threats to kill.

Gareth, who moved to the club for £86million, is said to have upped his security at the home in La Finca, outside Madrid, Spain he shares with Emma as a result.

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