7 Mar, 2020 @ 20:02
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Two Romanians arrested for Marbella gun murder of Moroccan in urbanisation

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TWO Romanians have been arrested in their home country accused of shooting dead a man in Marbella.

A 66-year-old Moroccan was killed at the Andasol urbanisation on November 15 last year.

His 55-year-old companion needed emergency surgery and has been left ‘facing serious consequences’.

Spain’s Policia Nacional said they had identified their main suspects within five days of the incident.

The alleged ‘mastermind’ of the hit – a 54-year-old Spaniard – was arrested in Malaga in January but investigators kept the news under wraps until the suspected gunmen were detained.

This happened at the end of February when the two Romanians aged 29 and 39 were arrested after an international police operation codenamed ‘Hemo’.

Investigators believe the killing was linked to a so-called ‘turnaround’ where one criminal gang steals drugs from another.

Working on this basis they quickly found the gunmen’s get-away car then identified the alleged mastermind of the plot.

He had gone into hiding, say police, but they traced him and made an arrest before asking Romanian law enforcement to help find the suspected killers.

All three detained men are being held in custody.

Dilip Kuner

Dilip Kuner is a NCTJ-trained journalist whose first job was on the Folkestone Herald as a trainee in 1988.
He worked up the ladder to be chief reporter and sub editor on the Hastings Observer and later news editor on the Bridlington Free Press.
At the time of the first Gulf War he started working for the Sunday Mirror, covering news stories as diverse as Mick Jagger’s wedding to Jerry Hall (a scoop gleaned at the bar at Heathrow Airport) to massive rent rises at the ‘feudal village’ of Princess Diana’s childhood home of Althorp Park.
In 1994 he decided to move to Spain with his girlfriend (now wife) and brought up three children here.
He initially worked in restaurants with his father, before rejoining the media world in 2013, working in the local press before becoming a copywriter for international firms including Accenture, as well as within a well-known local marketing agency.
He joined the Olive Press as a self-employed journalist during the pandemic lock-down, becoming news editor a few months later.
Since then he has overseen the news desk and production of all six print editions of the Olive Press and had stories published in UK national newspapers and appeared on Sky News.

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