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Two Belgians arrested last month in Torremolinos, on Spain’s Costa del Sol, were armed to the teeth. The police announced this. They were fleeing after a deadly shooting in our country and had forged identity papers in their pockets.
During the routine check, Torremolinos police noticed a suspicious vehicle. They decided to pull the car over. The two occupants talked about a rental car, but did not want to cooperate and refused to make any statement.
Detective work led the police to a nearby garage. Keys found in the car of the two Belgians fit the lock of the garage door and the car parked there.
Inside the vehicle was a loaded revolver with extra ammunition, a balaclava and gloves.
The officers then transferred the Belgians to the police station. There they discovered that a European arrest warrant had been issued by the Belgian court against the twenty-somethings since March 2022. During a search of their rental home, an automatic firearm with ammunition was found. Several loaders contained 108 bullets.
Disappeared
The two, MD (25) and YJ (23), were already placed under arrest warrant in 2020 on suspicion of a shooting in Alfred Orbanstraat in Vorst on the night of July 4 to 5. A settlement in which 23-year-old Soufiane ‘Nana’ Benali died and two others were injured.
About a week after the shooting, MD and YJ presented themselves to the police and were placed under arrest warrants for murder, attempted murder and verbal threats. The KI referred them, together with a third suspect, to the court of assizes in Brussels in 2022.
But they were released pending trial. MD was wearing an ankle bracelet, but he cut it himself. The two have been missing since then.
They will now be handed over to our country as quickly as possible.