"They took him to a hotel to give him an assault rifle and then drove him to Fuengirola. Near the seafront, on Asturias Street, they showed him the cannabis club from which, sooner or later, a man he was to kill would emerge. Hooded, he waited patiently. In the early hours of the morning, barely two hours after arriving in Spain, he pulled the trigger in cold blood and fled by bicycle, then on foot, and finally in a taxi."
"Following his arrest, this is the first case in Spain in which an underage hitman is the main suspect. For years minors have been used to commit such crimes in northern European countries, but it has never before occurred on Spanish soil. It's a wave that's coming to us little by little. And a real problem, says one of the police officers who led the investigation. It's something that has surprised us all, acknowledges Marbella's Anti-Drug Prosecutor Carlos Tejada."
A 17-year-old Belgian escaped juvenile detention and was recruited by a criminal organization in the Netherlands before flying to Malaga on December 7, 2024. He was armed with an assault rifle, taken to Fuengirola, waited near a cannabis club and killed a target within two hours of arrival, then fled and was later arrested. This marks the first case in Spain with an underage hitman as the main suspect. Northern European countries have long used minors for violent crimes, with Sweden overwhelmed and hitmen as young as 13–15. Europol warned that more young people without criminal records are being recruited for violent attacks, and Andy Kraag described the phenomenon as a systematic process akin to an assembly line.
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