More than 1,600 kilometers They separate Genk (Belgium) from Madrid. It’s about the 16-hour trip that two brothers took in their mother’s car after attempting to murder a young man. They parked the Peugeot in a parking lot in the Salamanca district. This … This is the end of his trip which resulted in an express arrest, within four hours, by police officers. National Police.
The criminal act perpetrated by these brothers occurred on December 15 at 7 p.m. The scene was the parking lot of TNT Youth Center in Termien in Genk. The 24-year-old victim was shot dead in what may have been a settling of scores for drug problem. The bullets hit various parts of his body but did not hit any vital organs and he will live long enough to tell the story.
The two brothers suspected of having committed this revenge took their mother’s car and left for a long trip to Spain with two other friends. Belgian authorities suspected his intention to target Algeciras from where they planned to flee to Morocco, their country of origin. The journey took 16 hours and 11 minutes (1,667 kilometers) to the Spanish capital.
The Fugitives Section of the National Police received the call from its Belgian counterparts on December 18 at 2 p.m. Suspicions had become certainties and the young people had managed to reach our country. Given the dangerousness of the suspects, considered extremely violent and with the possibility that they were armed, an urgent location device was activated.
One of the people arrested by the national police
Thus, the members of this group, specialized in lightning investigations, managed to discover in a few minutes that the brothers’ car was parked in parking in the Salamanca district. The first arrest took place around five o’clock in the afternoon of the same day.
four hours
This young man arrested by Fugitivos agents was accompanied by two other friends who were released because, in principle, they were not the subject of any investigation. However, when the National Police transferred these identities to Belgium, the country’s authorities processed a request arrest warrant for one of them.
The fugitives communicated the new situation to their colleagues at Citizen Security. Thanks to this collaboration, four hoursthe other brother and the other young man were arrested. In this short time, the police operation was carried out successfully.
“They could be involved in the Termien shooting and will be extradited in our country as quickly as possible”, confirmed the prosecutor’s spokesperson, Marijke Teunis, to Belgian media.
Teamwork
The express arrest of these suspects is an example of the importance of collaboration. Both internationally and within the different units of the National Police. Joint work made it possible in a few hours to arrest these young people, who did not oppose their arrest.
Now, officers are working to extradite those under investigation to Belgium. The mother of these two boys also claimed to have her vehicle with which they began this long interrupted journey. Sources in the investigation tell ABC that one of the reasons they were able to leave the car in the Salamanca neighborhood was to carry out administrative procedures related to the search for documents to be able to travel to Morocco.
The two brothers are 26 and 19 years old, while their partner is 21 years old, according to these same sources. They are linked to one of the tentacles of a criminal organization which had already carried out violent actions in Genk. Behind this assassination attempt lies the formidable drug trafficking which is hitting Belgium so hard with formidable gangs like the Mocro-Maffia.
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