The ‘congress’ of the drug in the Costa del Sol

Days before he was killed, David Avila Ramos, known in Marbella as a child (ironically) like Maradona because of its lack of soccer skills, he received the visit of a couple of plain-clothes police. “Go for it, do you have something to tell us?”, asked. He had already received several “warnings”. In march of 2018, someone had built an off-road vehicle stolen against your gym in San Pedro de Alcántara (Málaga); The little, burned the poolside snack bar (‘Heaven’) that I was in Estepona with your partner Naoufal Mrabet, 41-year-old. And, the own the Mrabet, appeared the next day from those facts, burned in the interior of a Ferrari, charred, in Dubai, together with a friend from malaga. The arab authorities were limited to call it “accident”. But despite all of this, and the warnings of the police, Maradona, with more than half of his life of 37 years dedicated to drug trafficking in the Costa del Sol, accustomed to “working” with people of all stripes (colombian, Dutch, French, English...), to have outstanding debts and to take all kinds of security measures, we made the case. “I'm not going to spend anything”, I replied quietly.

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But it happened. The day of the communion of one of their two children, the last may 12, a biker dressed in black and on a powerful bike of the same color will descerrajó five shots through the window of your Audi, you just get on with the whole family after leaving the church. The agents of the Drive against Crime and Organized Crime (UDYCO) knew after The Swedes, the gang of killers of arab origin from Malmo (south of Sweden) that was broken up this week accused of such a crime, among others, had tried it more times. “You risked the most and they chose the day of the communion so as not to fail again,” says one of the investigators of the case.

Maradona, it was the fourth murder at point-blank range in 2018. The last, the one that makes the number six in the motley mosaic of violent adjustments of accounts of this year on this stretch of coast in the South of Spain, it was the 21 of November: a French 58-year-old was shot dead with a Kalashnikov in the garage of his home in Marbella.

With the arrest this week of that being, “the most bloodthirsty known until now”, according to veteran researchers, and formed by nine swedes, almost all under the age of 30 years, whose heads were two pairs of brothers, the Police has solved two murders. The Maradona and the a citizen of the maghreb, Sofian Mohamed A. B., who last August 20, a hooded man on a bicycle we downloaded a charger integer (eight bullets) to the door of his house early in the morning, after receiving a mysterious phone call and go out to the street. The agents suspect that both facts are related to “a wrong turning” (theft, drugs). But the acts of violence happen in climbing: pumps in homes, fires of local, tortured bodies thrown in the ditches next to hospitals, injured weapon white that crack your face to the style Jocker to the output of a trendy nightclub, seizure of weapons of war, automatic, grenades... The victims are Dutch, English, swedes, French, croats, Spanish... Begins to have a social alarm and in advertising, instead of ads, refreshing drinks appear the faces of the most wanted (see photo).

The Costa del Sol is “a kind of congress of organized crime, a melting pot of crime, a kind of coworking and networking of the drug, in the that dock the strong organizations of all countries of our surroundings in order to make their illegal business”, describes a veteran police Betgaranti of the area. The fact that a band of assassins intended to settle is the indicator most alarming to date.

“The lords of the organizations are hidden and they live here, we give service to each other, here are a infrastructure unbeatable: international airport, luxury housing developments for foreigners bunquerizadas, in which dwell anonymously and even launder money for the narco; the port of Algeciras to get the cocaine (is the fourth in transshipment of containers in the world), Morocco with all their hash at a stone's throw; the “operators” of the Field of Gibraltar and The Line to move the goods; Gibraltar for the major investments; a good climate of...” lists to police sources. “While the business is going well, one pays, another cobra, no one steals anyone, everyone wins, and everything works, no problem; but if something is twisted, as now, begin the account settings, the strange thing is that this doesn't happen more,” they warn. But What has been “twisted” on the Costa del Sol?

According to the veteran police investigators, this spike in violent is multi-causal. “Some of the murders are because someone has stolen the goods of a strong organization, colombians and mexicans”, they say. “Others have to do with the war between two rival gangs of Dutch,” notes another agent. A conversation with specialised police evidence that there are things that have changed and that contribute to increase —right now— the levels of violence. “They are younger, have neither fear nor scruples or codes of honor, only interested in the money and have seen a lot of movies are bad”, says a researcher. “You see them: kids with cochazos that spend big bucks in the Vip Clubs”, apostille other. “There's more production of cocaine, since the signing of Peace in Colombia seem to have raised the foot: they need to make more goods and offer more people recepcionarla, which has led to a splintering of the groups”, describe. Although they are estimates, the Police ensures that in the Costa del Sol there are “over a hundred” organisations of any size, “all linked to drug trafficking”. In addition, there are many weapons in the black market. The police are seizing authentic arsenals, “reminiscent of the zulos de ETA”, they say.

A cocktail demonic, “only repels with the other: the good cops, good prosecutors and good judges”, say researchers, who say they met with their detained down the street to the days of making them available to the court. The situation has forced to increase effective. The fall in October, a band of 13 Dutch with 6,000 kilos of cocaine and now the swedes “are just the beginning.”

Chronology fast of a broad mosaic of violence

7 may. A Croatian 52-year-old was kidnapped with his wife. They were abandoned in a ditch of Marbella. The body of the man was beaten and shot. The woman survived.

12 mayor. A man on a motorcycle kills shots David Avila Ramos, Maradona, at the exit of the fellowship of his son. August 17. Two drug traffickers swedes were tricked to visit a villa in Mijas. Once there, three members of the organization maniataron and they were tortured for hours in order to obtain information of a shipment of drugs. One of them escaped. Another was executed in cold blood. The hitmen fled leaving a car on fire in the direction of Algeciras, to fly to Morocco. Many were arrested in the operation Earwig.

August 20. Soufian, The Zocato, is murdered by a hooded man on a bicycle in his house in the urbanisation El Campanario, Estepona. The victim, 34-year-old, he received eight shots.

8 September. An English enter in the Costa del Sol Hospital of Marbella with two bullets in the legs and what is known as the ‘Smile of the Joker’, with two cuts in the face from the corners.

9th of October. Two explosions. A in front of the urbanization Mirador de la Alqueria (Benahavis). And another in the polígono industrial of San Pedro de Alcántara (Marbella). There were No casualties

October 27. A hooded man kills at point-blank range a man who dined in the restaurant Tiki, in Torremolinos. The victim was identified as the author of one of the explosions.

November 21. A French 58 is riddled with a Kalashnikov in his garage.