Police free three victims after multiple kidnapping in Marbella on the Costa del Sol

Five suspects have been arrested and remanded in custody in connection with the crime. They are being investigated for several offences including illegal detention, and the case remains open.

According to the Ministry of the Interior’s most recent report into crime, there were seven kidnappings in Malaga province between January and September this year, which is the same number as during that period in 2021.

Since then, the last reported case was on 15 October in Malaga city, when a man was summoned to meet a group of people to whom he apparently owed a large sum of money. They forced him in a car and took him to a warehouse on an industrial estate, where they threatened to cut him into pieces and put him in a large container.

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Victim escapes and kidnap attempt fails when captors stop for fuel at filling station in Benalmádena

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He managed to escape later, back in the car, when his kidnappers pulled into a filling station in Benalmádena. He said he needed to go to the bathroom and his captors, who believed they had removed the mobile phones he was carrying, allowed him to do so. Once inside, however, he produced a phone they hadn’t found and wrote a message on the screen which he showed to someone inside; they then rang the emergency services and the police arrived very quickly.

As officers approached the car, an individual got out and ran off, so two of them chased him while the others attended to the kidnap victim. He warned them that a second car in the petrol station was also involved, and the police arrested the two occupants on the spot.

The man who had run away was caught in El Higuerón area. He put up considerable resistance; one of the officers was injured in the struggle and needed surgery afterwards for a fractured arm.