Trails of blood, the path reached the access door to the chalet where citizens with Polish passports were stuck for 20 hours, between moon and moon. Presumably squatters. Presumably also, the perpetrators of the country were the murderers of men of German origin who had tried to settle back into the luxurious building, which had been accessed twice before and located between the beaches of Pinet and La Marina, in Elche (Alicante). Before his arrest, carried out by specialized agents of the Civil Guard, we knew he was there.
These are violent guys, aged between 19 and 42, according to the investigation, capable of killing two people and injuring others with kicks, kicks and punches, without using knives or firearms, according to the first version of these. And repeat offenders, who have a history in all the police files of Elche (245,000 inhabitants) and its surroundings: in the files of the Civil Guard, the Local Police and the National Police.
The trail of blood, visible in broad daylight during the negotiations that the trapped men held with the officers of the armed institute, corresponds, it seems, to the maneuver that the two detainees carried out to remove the corpses of the incapable and leave them abandoned on a surrounding road, with obvious nuances of polytrauma which tend to certify the autopsy. Apparently the vecinos were lost due to the presence of the bodies found in the ground.
But it was not this alarm signal that alerted the emergency services. The call to 112, from which no data was provided to find the low secret summary case, gave the first clue to the first and most solid hypothesis processed by the investigators. In this heavenly chalet, a few meters from the sea and surrounded by the protected surroundings of the Santa Pola salt flats, according to all indications, a deadly altercation between two arrested Poles and three Germans, according to the first hypothesis, was produced, according to all evidence, by friends of the owner, also Germans, who came to the rescue. repair the imperfections that had previously caused the same criminals, who had to try to expel them. Even if it cannot be excluded, despite the history and according to the sources consulted, that it is a fight between owners and tenants.
The crime took place around 6 p.m. The toll is that of two dead and a serious hero still admitted to Elche hospital. The result only came 14 hours ago, when Guardia Civil agents burst into the house and arrested the criminals, who did not resist. The investigation now aims to confirm what makes it possible to understand the first clues, for which help was requested from the Polish and German authorities, respectively at the origin of the homicides and the victims.
The sketchy secret left a cloud of theories among residents of the usually quiet area in which the dreams occurred. Playa del Pinet is small and has a few houses and accommodation and dining establishments on the ground floor of the bullring. At the back, the Santa Pola salt flats, a protected natural park, whose salt is exploited by companies and famous for being chosen by abundant bands of flamencos.
There is La Marina, the most remote illegal pedestrian street in the urban area of Elche, a dense accumulation of residences and chalets surrounded by pine trees that stand on the beach of the entire southern coast of the province of Alicante and populated mainly by foreigners. Elche is the third city in the province, behind the capital and Torrevieja, with more foreign censuses, more than 30,000 (13.4% of its population), according to a 2024 report from the Migration Secretariat of the Diocese of Orihuela-Alicante.
Growth of the Polish community
Alicante is not a bad place for Poles, those who, at the moment, do not have origins in their country of origin, to remain unnoticed. The data that the Miguel Hernández Airport in Alicante-Elche manages, since the start of the war in Ukraine and, above all, with the incursion of Russian drones that occurred in Poland during the summer, show an increase in the presence of travelers from this Central European country of around 20% compared to last year. The fourth foreign nationality is the most numerous at Alicante airfield, including British, Dutch and Germans.
The Polish community is also well placed in property purchase records, in which, according to the Asociación de Promotores Alicantinos (Provia), it has surpassed the Swedes, Norwegians or French. The presence of many Eastern Europeans (Ukrainians, Russians, Poles), around the three main tourist areas of the province, Dénia, Benidorm and Torrevieja, further facilitates their integration with a considerable range of services aimed at Eastern European citizens.
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