Spanish police have indications that a group of French hitmen is behind the kidnapping of a Dutchman on the Costa del Sol in August last year.
The Spanish news site reports that Niusdiario based on police sources. It concerns sound recordings made during an investigation into drug trafficking by a group of French criminals. With the approval of an investigating judge in Torremolinos, the Spanish National Police placed an environmental microphone in the vehicle of the main suspect.
On Sunday, August 9, 2020, the researchers will hear a conversation from which it appears that the suspects are looking for a Dutchman of Moroccan descent. They talk about the cars he travels with – in particular a ‘modified’ Mercedes Mansory – the places he frequents, how to locate him and how he should be attacked. The men are also talking about a white gold watch from the Swiss brand Richard Mille.
After that, developments follow each other in quick succession. The following weekend, the Dutch target is robbed at a gas station of his clock with an estimated value of around 400,000 euros. Another week later, he is kidnapped after a restaurant visit with his partner in Nuevo Andalucía, a residential area in Marbella near the exclusive marina. Two vehicles, one with a blue flashing light, drive the Mercedes Mansory of the Dutchman around 10 p.m. close to the restaurant. Eight men in police uniforms jump out of the cars, forcing him to get out and come along at gunpoint. It soon turns out that they are criminals disguised as cops.
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24 hours after the kidnapping, the Spanish investigators record a new conversation. A friend of the victim gets into the bugged vehicle and asks for an explanation. The French drug suspect says the Dutchman is in a villa in Marbella where French hitmen are staying who killed at least a dozen people on the Costa del Sol. “They are with us and everyone is afraid of them. This year there are many people from France. They come to do something and then leave again,” explains the Frenchman.
The liquidation of a Frenchman of Moroccan descent in Marbella leads the police to the villa in question a few days later. Officers arrest three suspects with a history of robbery, kidnapping with torture or murder. There is no trace of the disappeared Dutchman. Among the three detainees is the main suspect in the drug trafficking investigation. The public prosecutor in Torremolinos releases him before sharing a message about his arrest with colleagues in Marbella, who are investigating the kidnapping. The French suspect has since disappeared without a trace.
Drug suspect in the Netherlands
The initials of the kidnapped Dutchman are according to the Spanish news site JB. He would come from the entourage of a Moroccan ex-politician and dissident who resides in the Netherlands and is suspected of drug trafficking. JB may have been one of his partners, the local news site reported Marbella24horas a few days after the kidnapping. This would involve blackmail or a settlement.
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