British media discovers the gangster war on the Costa del crime
In a revealing overview article in The Scottish Sun, links are made between various underworld murders on the Spanish costas.

What is wrong in Spain for God's sake ? The Scottish Sun is now asking this question with a broad overview article about the gangster war on the costas. A subject that we have written a lot about in the last few months in Panorama.

'The coastline's underbelly of violence has exploded onto city streets in recent months, resulting in a wave of executions, bombings and barbaric gangland slays.'

In other words: in the always turbulent underworld of the Spanish coast, there has been a violent explosion in recent months. Result: liquidations, bomb attacks and cruel torture practices.

Expats
British expats fear for their lives now that the spiral of violence seems unstoppable in cities like Marbella, Benidorm and Estepona. Children of this new class travel with bodyguards to school. The police adds that it is difficult to deal with the crime, now that so many criminals have settled in the thousands of well-secured white villas in the hills just a few kilometers from the coastline.

Experts report that gangs from thirteen core countries are active on the Costa's. With a large participation from notorious states like Russia, Colombia and Albania. And it does not look like it will get better soon. A few bomb attacks would be a sign on the wall.

Corruption
The fact that the Spanish coast is also a 'superhighway' for drug trafficking is an important aspect of the increase in violence. Crime organizations settle accounts on the spot, where a human life does not count. Add to that the corruption of Spanish government services and the problem is there.

Two Dutch suspects in the case of the 6.5 tons of cocaine in Málaga (see Dutch gangs thread) were this year observed by the police during a meeting with Sito Miñanco a notorious criminal from Galicia. The meeting was according to the Spanish newspaper El Español this summer in a hotel in the city of Córdoba. The netflix series Fariña is based on the life of Sito Miñanco.

A man, known to French investigators as being linked to the banditism, was killed in Marbella Tuesday, in front of his home.

The 58-year-old body of Jean-Raymond Davy was found by police officers in front of his home, riddled with bullets. On the spot, the Spanish investigators found about twenty cases of cartridges and an abandoned Kalashnikov assault rifle.

The man was suspected of trafficking cocaine, according to Europe 1 .

The Spanish Guardia Civil says that eight people have been arrested on suspicion of involvement in the torture and liquidation of a Swedish criminal in Mijas, near Málaga, in August. Six people were arrested in Spain and two people in Sweden.
Two Swedes were handcuffed by a group of men in August and taken to a detached house in Mijas. There they were tortured for hours. One of the two Swedes managed to escape at a certain moment. Then the perpetrators shot the other Swede to death and fled into the victim's car. It was found burned in nearby Fuengirola.
The first arrests were made when the suspects wanted to board a ferry to Morocco. The Spanish police stopped the men and began an investigation with the Swedish authorities.
The deadly victim, according to the Spaniards, is the leader of a criminal organization that acted in drugs.

Marbella businessman was shot dead in hail of bullets as he drove his Bentley days ago.
Marcos was also a major player in international coke trade.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...WIE-stars-shot-dead-hail-20-bullets.html

He would have been involved with the Irish Kinahan clan and the Dutch fugitive crime boss Ridouan Taghi.

If you'd like to witness the Premier League of European organized crime in one package, you could take a trip to the Costa Del Sol. It's a major tourist hotspot, but if you do a bit of digging in the underground you'll come across blokes most people wouldn't even see in their worst nightmare. And they don't even try to hide. If you're an expat, you're regularly offered to do work for a quick buck. If you decline, it's rare that you keep on getting harassed and they'll mostly don't elaborate any further and just leave you alone. If you accept, you're already knee-deep in and things mostly end up with either you in jail or with your charred remains ending up in the trunk of a burned-out car. I know someone who stayed in that region for some time, didn't get involved in any crime himself, but he encountered and/or heard stories about nutcases from all-over Europe.

Italian OC is definitely there, with the Sicilian mafia, Ndrangheta, Camorra...all having connected people hiding in the region. They mostly lay low.

British and Irish OC is among the most "visible". There's English groups from Liverpool, the London-Essex-Kent area, Nottingham...Scottish groups from the Glasgow area...Irish groups from Dublin as well as some from the Traveller community... By far the most violence going on in the region is associated with the crime firms from these places.

OC from the FSU is active there as well. Russians, Russian-Israelis, Georgians, Armenians, Chechens, Azeris...they launder a shitload of money over there. They don't make a lot of noise like some of the Western European criminals do over there, but there's fears of increasing violence associated especially with the Georgian and Armenian groups.

Balkan OC is there. Serbian/Montenegrin clans have activity, as do the Albanians. When it comes to their groups, things have not yet spiraled into violence, but it's always tough to say what the future brings with these groups.

OC from the Netherlands is active there and lots of it. This goes from the traditional "penoze" from North Holland to the Traveller ("Kamper") milieu from North Brabant to the gangs of Moroccan or Antillean origin from the Randstad. Next to the British and Irish groups, the groups from the Netherlands are probably connected to most of the gangland killings.

France-based OC is there and is increasing. Algerian gangs from Marseille, Seine-Saint-Denis, Grenoble, Montpellier...the Traveller ("Gens du Voyage") milieu from Montreuil, Etang de Berre...as well as the Corsicans all have property there. Violence isn't as high as the other groups from Western Europe, but it does happen.

Groups from Sweden have shown up. They're mostly Moroccan in origin from the Malmo area and they mostly have connections to their counterparts in the Netherlands. Assyrians from the Stockholm area are active there as well.
As with Sweden, the groups from Denmark are also mostly Moroccan in origin.

Turkish groups from the Black Sea region as well as Turkish-Kurdish ones from Southeast Anatolia have property there. Some of the Turkish criminals can also hold British, Dutch, German and Belgian passports. They lay reasonably low, which is surprising seeing two major clans from the Black Sea region have a huge conflict which has claimed casualties all over Europe.

From Belgium it seems to be largely groups from the Antwerp area. Largely Moroccan in origin.

Groups from Germany have increasing activity. Mostly they're Turkish, Kurdish or Lebanese in origin.

Bulgarians and to some extent Romanians are in the area. Unlike the other groups, they don't launder a ton of money over there and mostly keep to pimping.

Holleeder didn't want to live in Benidorm too many dutch criminals he said.

Benidorm has the reputation for attracting senior citizens lol. These days there are quite a few British and Dutch criminals hiding there as well.

In terms of South American groups, the Colombians have lots of operations going on at the Costa as well.

They started as tourists in the 70s/80s, but now they are settled and made Alicante province the cannabis capital of Spain huge production in recent years.

Prohibition = chaos.

A Danish member of the Hells Angels, NLH, aged 34, was arrested near Marbella, while he is wanted in his country for homicide.

Three men arrested in Spain for the murder of an Irishman Carl Carr, he disappeared in September last year in Alicante, his body was found near near Rojales.

The Spanish Guardia Civil and the Italian Carabinieri have arrested a group of suspects of the Italian Camorra on the Costa de Sol in connection with large-scale hash traffic and violent crimes.

It concerns members of the Marranella clan. The Guardia Civil says that the suspects were engaged in organizing rip deals, hostage taking and extortion. The hash transports had Rome as their destination.

In Spain, 14 people were arrested and another seven suspected. Half a ton of hash have been confiscated, in addition to, among other things, six expensive cars. Apart from Spain, there were raids in Italy and France and a total of some millions of euros worth of property was confiscated. 42 people were arrested in Italy.

According to the Guardia Civil, the Camorra clan worked with a group of British criminals from the area of ​​Gibraltar.

Spain: dismantling of a network of counterfeiters linked to the Camorra
The Guardia Civil has dismantled a criminal organization specialized in the counterfeiting of euro banknotes. 26 people were arrested during this "Copy" operation in the provinces of Málaga, Granada and Almería. The network is also involved in a theft with violence in 2018, drug trafficking and pimping. 13 searches were conducted to discover a marijuana plantation and seize 20 kilos of cannabis flower heads, several doses of cocaine, heroin and cannabis resin, 4 handguns, a 12-gauge rifle, knives, 20,000 euros in cash and counterfeit notes of 20, 50 and 500 euros.
The investigation began in April 2018 with the reporting of false cuts by commercial establishments in the region of Malaga. The cuts, of very good quality, were sold by young people who presented notes of 100 or 50 euros for small purchases. In addition, the people in charge of taking care of the planting of cannabis were paying with counterfeit bills of 500 euros. The network appears to be linked to a Camorra mobster who is currently serving a prison sentence in Italy.

The summer of 2019 seems to be decisive, from last summer until now, many Dutch people were arrested on the Costa. Some were linked to major drug transports. The Dutch judiciary is sending another liaison officer this year who will work closely with the Spanish government.

In Mijas, a town on the Costa del Sol near Torremolinos, a Serbian was shot shortly before midnight on Thursday evening. The 24-year-old man was driving a car with his girlfriend and his 2-year-old daughter when he was shot at.

The victim later died in a hospital in Málaga from head injuries. His pregnant girlfriend and the child were not affected, after a short treatment in a hospital they could go again.

A collision also occurred between two cars. Nothing is known about the shooter. The Guardia Civil tries to find out what exactly happened.

It's probably either a Belgrade or a Montenegro thing.

A body was dumped out of a car on a highway near Marbella on Monday. It is now clear that the remains are of a 39-year-old man. According to local media, it showed traces of torture.

A surveillance by the Guardia Civil noticed the body, it was in a gutter of the A-7 motorway in the direction of Málaga. Extensive forensic investigations were carried out on site on Monday. Autopsy is currently being conducted to determine the cause of death and an investigation is being conducted by the Spanish National Police.

The body is said to have been found in an advanced state of decomposition and to show injuries that indicate inflicted violence.

In Spain, the National Police are investigating the death of a man who was found dead Sunday morning in a ditch along the A-7176, the highway between Marbella and Istán. According to local media, the man had four gunshot wounds, including in the abdominal area.

The remains were said to be from a man from an unnamed country in Eastern Europe.

A passer-by called Sunday 112 after he saw the body lying in a wooded passage along the highway.

REVEALED: How a 'new generation' of ruthless Dutch gangs are 'helping Irish drug mafia operate along Spain's Costa del Sol from Dubai'

https://www.theolivepress.es/spain-...suspected-assassination-in-three-months/

Salford businessman nicknamed 'Snaggle' shot dead in his Audi outside his Spanish villa
He was a well-known face in the city before he made the move to Riviera del Sol

https://www.manchestereveningnews.c...ford-man-nicknamed-snaggle-shot-17301276

Spanish police are looking for Dutch 'assassin'

MARBELLA - The Spanish police are looking for a 29-year-old Dutchman who was possibly involved in murdering a Frenchman Tuesday in Marbella. The Sur newspaper reports this on the authority of police sources. According to Sur, the suspect is a contract killer and known to the police.

The suspect is said to be approximately 1.80 meters long with Arab features and a beard. According to Sur, a second person was involved in the assassination.

Together they would have waited for their victim in a blue car. When they saw their target, they allegedly got out of the car and fired several shots at the 60-year-old Frenchman.

According to police sources, the Dutchman and his companion wore masks. The motive is unknown.

A man was arrested in southern Spain who, according to the Guardia Civil, was called "El Señor del Puerto" in the container port of Algeciras. He is suspected of having been in charge there for decades of "retrieving" batches of cocaine from containers.

It concerns the Spaniard JGM (54) who was arrested together with his 32-year-old son and a figure who would have been his right hand. The man's network arranged for the additional consignments of cocaine to be removed from the containers delivered to the port and removed from the port site. According to the Spanish authorities, GM was the "boss" and few other criminals were able to operate on the port site. The network received a commission for every kilo of coke removed to the people who brought the parties from South America.

Plastic boxes
In an earlier phase of the investigation, 480 kilos of cocaine were intercepted and 21 people arrested. Among them were ten employees from the port. The Guardia Civil now says it has caught the leaders of the network.

The investigation revealed contacts with criminal organizations in Colombia, Morocco, France and other European countries.

Flamur Beqiri, 36, brother of Real Housewives of Cheshire star Misse Beqiri, died in a hail of bullets fired by a hitman outside his £1.7million home in Battersea, South-West London, on Christmas Eve.

Scotland Yard are investigating whether the Swedish national was shot because of his connections with organised crime groups in his home town of Malmo - and a battle over the Costa del Sol cocaine trade.

Sources told the Mirror that Mr Beqiri was an associate of a gang boss who is embroiled in a turf war with a rival group that has brought escalating violence.

The rival group, known as Los Suecos, meaning “the Swedes”, and its members are suspected of ordering shootings, kidnappings, torching beach-front restaurants and bombing rivals' warehouses.

Among the Spanish murders linked to Los Suecos was the 2018 killing of cocaine trafficker David Ávila Ramos, 37, known as “Maradona” in the Marbella drug underworld.

Like Mr Beqiri, he was killed in front of his wife and young children who were in the car with him when he was shot.

Sofian Ahmed Barrak, 34, known as “El Zocato” was shot nine times in a second killing that Los Suecos are suspected of carrying out.

It has been reported that Spanish police have previously linked Los Suecos to Ridouan Taghi – a Dutchman of Moroccan heritage - said to be responsible for 20 murders.

Taghi, the head of the “Angels of Death” gang, was Holland’s most wanted man when he was arrested in Dubai last month as part of a huge international manhunt.

The Spanish police believe that the crackdown on criminal motorcycle clubs in Northern Europe could be behind a wave of crime, causing a total of 24 murders on the Costa del Sol in 2019. That writes the British newspaper The Daily Telegraph .

Whereas the Spanish police were used to fighting the criminal activities of Eastern European and South American crime groups on the Costa del Sol, the authorities are now confronted with a new threat of outlaw motorcycle gangs (OMGs). After OMGs have been crackdowned in recent years in the Netherlands and Germany, police have relocated their territory to the south coast of Spain.

According to the Spanish police investigation team specializing in motorcycle gangs, the influx of such criminal groups is leading to more violent and organized crime in southern Spain. The peak in the number of murders last year would explain that more groups are competing for power. "The Costa del Sol has long been a favorite destination for Serbian, Russian, Italian and Colombian Mafia, because of the quality of life and the amount of money that is laundered; rich criminals can go unnoticed, "said an inspector. (text continues after the ads).

"But last year we saw the tension between criminal organizations in the area increase. The traditionally low criminal activity involving Spanish bikers has now taken on a whole new dimension. The other organizations that have already established themselves in Spain will have something to say about this new element. "

Today, at 2.00pm, in broad daylight, a man was shot dead on Marbella’s infamous Golden Mile in what can only be presumed to be a murder on behalf of the mafia.
The victim, who is yet to be identified, was caught by surprise when walking across Calle Arturo Rubinstein, according to sources he was crossed by, a presumed hitman, and shot at various times with a silenced pistol. Sources at the scene say that the hitman was carrying a briefcase and fired at least half a dozen shots at a close range.
This was fatal for the victim who collapsed in the middle of the street and was pronounced dead at the scene by emergency services. Furthermore, the alleged hitman is said to have fled the scene of the crime by escaping in a black car at a very high speed.

Lot of heavy guys from Northern Ireland in Benidorm as well.

Could be tied to these guys.

https://www.occrp.org/ru/daily/12419-dutch-police-arrest-native-bosnian-suspected-of-cocaine-trade

Bosnian Slavisa Z. had recently served a six-year sentence for smuggling cocaine. He was in the process of preventing his eviction. On September 11, 2014, he was caught with fellow suspects on a boat with 31 kilos of cocaine off the Moroccan coast off the Spanish enclave of Ceuta. Through good behavior, among other things, he was released early.

According to Sur newspaper, it appeared that Z. had turned away from crime.

Last week, was the first shooting on the Costa del Sol after partial lifting the Spanish curfew. A British man was admitted to a hospital with gunshot wounds to his legs.

I love Benidorm lol Marbella is upscale Benidorm is working class.