Ciudad Real (EFE).- The Civil Guard released two men who were being transferred to Madrid from Malaga against their will, since one of them was able to write a message for help in the notebook of a waiter who works in an area service station on the A-4 motorway, where the kidnappers made a stop.
As reported this Monday in a press release by the Civil Guard, on May 15 the kidnapped person wrote in the waiter’s notebook that he was being transferred to Madrid against his will, along with another colleague who was being taken in another vehicle, and that they both feared for their lives.
In the province of Ciudad Real
The waiter informed the Civil Guard, who notified two Civil Guard patrols that were in the vicinity of the A-4 motorway, which intercepted the vehicle in which the kidnapped person was being transported when it was driving near Santa Cruz de Mudela (Ciudad Real).
After intercepting the vehicle, the agents proceeded to free the hostage and arrest the two alleged perpetrators of the kidnapping, two men of Italian nationality, as alleged perpetrators of the crime of illegal detention.
The released man declared that both he and his partner were dedicated to keeping large amounts of drugs in a farm located in Malaga, which had been assaulted the night before by a group of people who had tied them up, and that they had stolen all the merchandise they had. guarded, approximately a ton of hashish.
After the assault, the two guards managed to get in touch with their “employers”, who forced them to get into two cars to take them to Madrid so that they could tell the heads of the organization what had happened.
Arrests in Madrid
On the way they made a stop at a service area on the A-4, where one of the hostages was able to ask for help in the waiter’s notebook, in which he wrote that both he and his partner feared for their lives.
The other three detainees were arrested by the Civil Guard in the vicinity of the Retiro Park, in Madrid, in the vehicle in which they were transporting the other kidnapped, who was also released.
The five detainees, to whom the crimes of illegal detention, drug trafficking and belonging to a criminal organization are attributed, have been made available to the court in Plaza de Castilla, Madrid, which was on duty the day the events occurred. , last May 15