Hall of the Provincial Court of Málaga, where the trial of the four accused of two murder crimes committed on the Costa del Sol in 2018 is taking place this Monday. Daniel Perez (EFE)
The so-called Los Suecos clan this Friday admitted its involvement in the killing of two people in Marbella in 2018. The main defendant, Ahmed Abdul Karim, has admitted that in May of the same year he shot and killed David Ávila, Maradona, while he was saying goodbye to his son’s communion and getting into a car with his wife and a friend. And that three months later, in August, he also caused the death of Soufian Mohamed by shooting outside his home in Estepona. “Yes, it is correct,” he answered the six questions from the prosecutor Carlos Tejada. The other defendants have also accepted their participation in the events to a greater or lesser extent, which they had hitherto flatly denied. The four alleged perpetrators face permanent, verifiable imprisonment and the four accomplices face 12 years in prison, sentences which legal sources say will be reduced by the confession itself and also by paying compensation to relatives. The trial will continue in an express version over the next few days, with only the basic evidence and testimonies to allow the popular jury to know how events unfolded.
The defense spent the first three sessions of the trial – Tuesday through Thursday – defending the absolute innocence of their clients. They stressed the lack of leads and evidence linking them to the crimes, even locating them outside the scene of events. The main defendants were young people growing up in a troubled environment in Malmö, Sweden, who escaped a spiral of violence to find a life on the Costa del Sol, either as a hash dealer or by opening a restaurant in Nueva Andalucía. in Marbella, but were chosen because of the color of their skin. The rest, in principle, had nothing to do with it: two were simply busy moving from Sweden to Spain in early 2018, another a chef looking for a chance in Malaga, and the last a model respected grandmother in her quiet I didn’t know once how to use the internet. Everything changed until this Friday.
The meeting started two hours late due to the dialogue between the parties. The settlement that the defense has been seeking since at least yesterday has not yet come, its terms are not yet known, but the factual acknowledgment by all defendants is an indication that it is on the right track. If the previous ones had slowly passed, this day was fleeting. In less than half an hour and a total of 21 questions, the eight defendants answered the prosecutor – the only one who put their questions to them because both the private prosecution and the defense refused to ask them – to admit the facts as I said, exactly the public prosecutor’s office. One way or another, the confessions have supported the hypothesis investigators had from the start: that the second victim allegedly commissioned the first’s murder because of drug-related debts, but then failed to pay for the work and he ended up shot dead due to the killers’ “unilateral” decision, according to police sources.
The first shift was for Ahmed Abdul Karim. The Swedish defendant went to his seat wearing a light blue shirt, gray jeans and dark sneakers. There he answered three questions about the first crime and three more about the second. The statement was always the same: “Yes, that’s right.” This means that there were “serious disagreements, confrontations and hostilities” between him and David Ávila and that they had a quarrel before his death. And that on May 12, 2018, when, after his son’s Communion, the victim got into the car in the Church of the Virgen del Rocío in San Pedro Alcántara (Marbella), shot him and then escaped on a motorcycle White Yamaha T -Max 500 in the Cortijo del Mar urbanization in Estepona, where he hid it in the garage.
Also that there were serious differences of opinion and arguments between him and Soufian Mohamed, also for personal reasons, and that in the early morning of August 20, 2018 he rode his bike to his house, hid between the containers, waiting for his arrival in waited at his house and when he came out minutes later he went to meet him and fired between eight and more shots that ended his life. He then fled on his bike to the Cortijo del Mar urbanization, leaving the vehicle in the vicinity. Neither the defense of the eight accused nor the private attorney’s office wanted to go into the details.
“Yes that’s right”
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As for his brother Karim Abdul Karim – who is serving a 34-year sentence for planting two explosive devices in Marbella and Benahavís in 2018 – the prosecutor has asked just one question: whether he helped Ahmed hide the motorbike in the urbanization. “Yes, that’s right,” he replied as well. Exactly what Fahkry Mekky admitted. Amir Mekky, the fourth member of Los Suecos, whom the police have always considered their ringleader (“nothing was done without his knowledge,” investigative sources told this newspaper), for his part, in the same words, admitted: that he spent several hours with the victim of this murder in Puerto Banús on August 20, 2018 to distract him, knowing that this would help him to be murdered later.
In the meantime, the other four defendants, who are being sentenced to 12 years in prison as accomplices, have also admitted the facts. One for reserving the motorbike used to commit the first murder, knowing it would be used for illegal activity on the internet, two for buying it in Germany and moving it to Marbella knowing its future use, and another for providing his identity to hire a car on the Costa del Sol, which would also be used for the crimes, and dumping some garbage bags in a container which he knew contained various clan electronics.
In this way, only one of the accused has admitted to the two crimes, while the rest have admitted their – more or less close – involvement in only one of them, so their sentences will be far from the required verifiable permanent for four of them. Both the confession and the payment to the relatives in the amount of a currently unknown amount that is expected in the short term serve to reduce the sentence. Of course, the trial will continue next Monday. The prosecutor has made efforts so that the people’s jury can know how the deaths came about. Something that will only be carried out with the most essential evidence and testimonies since all parties have agreed to facilitate the agenda of the process.
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