Gang who posed as police to steal from traffickers show bold tactics

Groups are allegedly fighting between themselves more as it is harder to land drugs now from Africa due to police activity

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Friday, 24 August 2018, 16:22

Police are blaming the surge in violent drug crime on the Costa del Sol so far this year on increased rivalry between gangs and theft between them.

Besides news of two shock murders in the last week, which police suspect were linked to organised drug smuggling, National Police have broken up a group that were posing as Guardia Civil officers in the Campo de Gibraltar area in order to enter homes and warehouses of the drug barons themselves and make off with drugs stashed there.

The men, all of Spanish nationality, were found with a range of Guardia Civil uniforms and accessories to carry out their daring scams.

In the first half of May this year alone there were three violent deaths, two shootings and two kidnappings on the Costa that are still under investigation. All have been linked to drugs.

Gangs are allegedly fighting between themselves more as it is harder to land drugs now from Africa due to police activity.

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