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.