Video footage shows the moment they moved in with battering rams while shouting ‘Policia Policia, On The Floor’ to handcuff the suspects in pre-dawn raids.
This is the dramatic moment heavily-armed Spanish police smash their way into the Costa del Sol residences occupied by six British citizens suspected of the attempted murders of three Irishmen at a lake near the holiday resort of Marbella.
A spokesman for the Spanish National Police said that they had arrested six men and that they believed they had smashed a criminal gang specialising in settling scores. “The attempted assassination took place at a lake called Turtle Lake on September 20 last year while three men were fishing and were attacked with weapons by a gang of men who shot at their vital organs with the intention of killing them.The spokesman added: “The gang’s modus operandi was to choose their victim and rely on equipment that enabled them to know where they were and decide on the best time to act with total impunity.
“This operation, which was codenamed Turtle, has enabled police to smash a criminal gang dedicated to contract killings.”Turtle Lake above Aloha Golf Course is a small and picturesque lake, hidden away in the northern part of the upmarket residential area of Nueva Andalucia.
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