He is 14 years old, he is Swedish although of North African origin and despite his age he ran a network of hitmen also minors of which their parents were also partwho were at his command. When he was arrested, along with his parents, in the family home, he looked at the police with absolute coldness, with that defiant attitude of the brazen criminal, even though he is only a teenager. «We have arrested very dangerous criminals and you could talk to them; However, with this one no…», explain sources of the investigation consulted by ABC.
The Response Group against Organized Crime (Greco) of the Costa del Sol, its colleagues from the Greco of Levante and the Udyco of Malaga, in collaboration with the Swedish and Danish police, have dismantled this organization that had its base of operations in Alicante and? recruited minors from those two countries through a Telegram channel to commit murders and bombings. Not only that; He also sent them the weapons necessary to carry out the attacks. They charged between 20,000 and 50,000 euros per job.
The fact that the hitmen were minors responds to a criminal logic: they charge less for their work, they raise fewer suspicions, they have much less perception of risk and, in addition, if they are arrested, the penalties they face are lower. But it is also true that It is the first time it has been done in Spain an operation of this type in which kids are involved: «In Sweden it is to a certain extent common; “We have seen videos in which 13-year-old boys shoot dead an adult with much greater cold blood than that of experienced professionals,” explain the research sources consulted. But that this could happen in Spain is another qualitative leap in an organized crime that increasingly presents more disturbing profiles in our country.
The main members of the plot were, as already noted, parents and their 14 year old sonabout to turn 15. The family had settled in Spain about a year ago, first in Torrevieja and in the last stage in a gated community in San Juan that provided them with extra security.
The father has a clear criminal profile, but the boy does not have a police record in either Spain or Sweden, although he had been in the spotlight of the Police in this country on some occasions. The teenager was the one who had the database of the hitmenall minors like him, and he was the one who recruited them. Like their boss, although they have a Swedish or Danish passport, they are also of North African origin and there are several who have been identified throughout the investigations.
The investigation began after the Swedish Police informed the Spanish Police of the presence of this criminal organization in our country. Last May, agents arrested in the Costa del Sol town of Benalmádena a 17-year-old minor of Swedish nationality, recruited by this organization, who had traveled to Spain with the intent to murder a member from a rival biker group.
A couple of days before traveling to Spain the young man she had dyed her hair and since he arrived on the Costa del Sol he confined himself to a hotel, from which he did not leave at all. However, a few days later, police surveillance detected that a third person had provided him with an electric scooter. From that moment on he changed his attitude and moved to an urbanization. From his movements it was easy to guess that he was studying the terrain, the possible escape routes and everything necessary to do a simple and effective ‘job’.
“When we were convinced that he was serious, we decided to act immediately, because we could not allow him to give us the slip and carry out the murder,” explain the sources consulted by ABC. The images of his arrest in the middle of a public street, released by the Police, are shocking to the extent that the detainee had not reached the age of majority. You will some gloves and insulating tape were involvedmaterial that could have been used when perpetrating the crime.
The arrested young man had been recruited, via social networks, by the 14-year-old boy who led the hitman plot, a network that functioned as a “service agency for the organizations that hired it.” These mafias contacted the boy and explained to him the work involved. They agreed then the price and the criminal machinery It got going immediately.
Coordination with another operation in Denmark
This operation in Spain was carried out in parallel and coordinated with another carried out in Denmark, where the Police of that country arrested two other minors, also of Swedish nationality and Maghreb origin, who had traveled there with the intention to commit another murder commissioned by the network based in Spain. After their arrest, two other firearms were seized.
The next step, obviously, was to locate, identify and arrest the members of the organization who recruited these young people, commissioned the murders, managed the trafficking of weapons and drugs and laundered the money. It was not easy, because ringleader was ‘invisible’ in the eyes of the researchers, who had to invest many hours of work to detect it. “He never left the house, he didn’t move, he was like a ghost,” the sources explain.
At the beginning of November, GOES agents raided the family home in San Juan (Alicante), where the parents and the minor were detained. This house was where all the organization activity and was constituted as an “operations center.” From there they managed the social media accounts used to recruit the young people and give the subsequent orders for the execution of the murders.
The Police have no doubt that although this operation has managed to prevent two murders, this network of sminor icarians He already has several deaths behind him. Not in Spain, where it could have been avoided, but in Sweden and Denmark.
The research has also revealed an important criminal network between Sweden and Eastern European countries who was one of the main clients of the underage hitmen plot.
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