The National Police have arrested in Figueres (Alt Empordà) two fugitives wanted for homicide and for whom a European Arrest and Surrender Order (OEDE) was issued for allegedly killing a member of an opposing clan in France, and one has been injured bullet in the chase.
As confirmed by this security body, the joint operation coordinated with the French police located one of those now arrested in Figueres and, thanks to the follow-ups, it was learned that there was another individual with him who was also subject to another EAW.
Sources in the case have confirmed that they are two “dangerous fugitives” belonging to an organized group in the south of France dedicated to drug trafficking and that they killed one of the members of a rival clan.
The events took place shortly before 10:00 a.m. this Tuesday, when members of the Fugitive Location Group of the Barcelona judicial police were following a vehicle with a French license plate in which the two suspects were traveling.
When the vehicle stopped in a service area on the southern ring road of Figueres, next to the cemetery, the officers blocked their path to prevent them from resuming their journey.
According to the National Police, the fugitives noticed it, tried to ram the vehicle into the officers and one of them shot at the wheels to prevent them from fleeing. One of the bullets would have passed through the car and hit the driver's leg.
The agents have arrested the two fugitives, 24 years old, of French nationality and Moroccan origin, by the OEDE issued for the crimes of homicide, membership in a criminal group and drug trafficking although, after attacking the police officers, they have also been accused of attack on a law enforcement agent.
According to sources at the Figueres Hospital, it was the same officers who took the injured man to the emergency room. They detail that the bullet entered and exited one leg cleanly, leaving an open wound, and that it grazed the other limb. The injured man, after receiving treatment, was discharged this Tuesday.
The two detainees, who were not armed, have been transferred to Barcelona, where the agents who carried out the operation take their statements.
