The autumn of 2019 was particularly bloody, although the two most recent deaths took place in June and August of this year, both in Marbella. Since 2018, authorities have counted around 20 deaths from score-settling in this corner of Málaga, which has 60 kilometers of coastline. These traffickers benefit from the anonymity of the area’s sprawl of residential estates, and they solve their conflicts on the streets, gun in hand. Marbella, Estepona and other nearby municipalities have become the perfect habitat for numerous drug gangs.

APZ (EFE)īoth victims survived, but that is not always the case. Police taking away the body of a man shot in Cabopino (Marbella). “This is getting wild: there are guns around, and very bad people,” says a National Police officer with years of experience in the field. There have been three more incidents involving firearms in Málaga province in the last month alone. The shooter was one of his own friends, an individual with a police record for trafficking marijuana. The alcohol flowed, a bar fight broke out, and one member of the group was shot twice in the face out in the street. The second incident occurred this past Saturday in Marbella, where a group of British friends decided to go out early for drinks. They failed, but the victim was shot in an arm and a leg as a warning. Members of a drug trafficking gang attempted to kidnap the son of a member of a rival gang from Poland. The first one took place early last week in Estepona, in Málaga province. There are two recent incidents that illustrate what’s going on with all the firearm violence in Spain’s Costa del Sol.

Morning sentinel police log oct 6 2018