National Police agents in an archive image.Europe Press
They kidnapped him in the Netherlands. He was then forcibly taken to the UK to undergo a lie detector test. They later took him to the Costa del Sol for a personal interview. His answers were never convincing and they ended up stabbing him in the hands and feet with a machete and brutally beating him. They thought he was dead and threw him into a ditch, but he survived. Drug trafficking is behind the kidnapping and violence that a 24-year-old Dutch man suffered last May. The National Police have now stopped the operation after arresting the last people involved at the end of November. A total of six people were arrested. The investigation reveals that the criminal group responsible for his kidnapping suffered a cocaine theft worth more than three million euros from a rival gang.
The investigation began after the victim managed to regain consciousness despite his injuries. He walked laboriously along a road on the outskirts of Fuengirola until he reached a settlement where a local resident saw him, treated him and called emergency services. He later told agents about his journey of more than 2,000 kilometers, during which he was at the mercy of the criminal organization to which he was suspected to have belonged. The police then began searching for information that would allow them to understand the incident in order to identify and arrest those responsible.
The criminals assumed that the young man played an important role in the thieves' plan, a rival organization, to get the cocaine. For this reason, he was captured in the Netherlands, where he lives, and forcibly taken to London, where he was subjected to a lie detector test to determine whether his answers during interrogations were true or not. “The results were not very conclusive,” police sources said. So the group decided to take him to the Costa del Sol, where the organization's leaders live, so they could ask him directly. “These types of people do not hesitate for a second to use violence to achieve their goal,” say the same sources.
At that time, they beat him severely and his captors stabbed him through his hands and feet with a machete. They also tried to cut off two of his fingers, an injury for which he has undergone several operations in the hospital. In this condition he ended up in a ditch days later. After learning their version and reconstructing the events, the agents began identifying the criminals and later, when they succeeded, tried to locate them. Ultimately six people were arrested. Two of the arrests took place in Marbella, three more in France and another in the Netherlands thanks to police cooperation at European level. They are accused of kidnapping and grievous bodily harm.
These events come in addition to the recent kidnappings on the Costa del Sol, which were also solved by the National Police. According to specialist sources, the vast majority are related to drug trafficking and their protagonists are criminal gangs who, in many cases, use violence to pay off financial debts. Among the events of this year, the case of the businessman from Estepona stands out, who was kidnapped twice in less than a week by a group of French nationals who tried to extort money from him in order to keep his bar in an urbanization in Estepona. A Hungarian citizen also suffered when three men took him to a house in Benalmádena, where they threatened him with a gun to get him to give them the key to a wallet containing 50 Bitcoins worth 1.3 million euros .
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