These four fugitives are wanted for rape, child abuse, and producing pornographic material. In the Netherlands, three of them who were wanted by Spain were taken into custody, while in Alicante, a fourth who was wanted by Dutch police was taken into custody.

The fugitive, who was apprehended in Alicante after being sought by Dutch officials, is accused of sexually abusing two girls, ages 11 and 13, and appearing in graphic recordings with children.

Since the arrested fugitives are wanted for serious sexual offences with alleged underage victims and, in this instance, a tight link between them, they are high-priority targets for the ENFAST Network.

Four sexual offenders who were evading punishment in Alicante and Groningen, the Netherlands, were apprehended concurrently by National Police officers and Dutch police in a coordinated operation. For rape, child abuse, and producing pedophilic content, these four fugitives are wanted. The Netherlands has detained three of them who were wanted by Spain, while Alicante has arrested a fourth who was wanted by Dutch officials. The fugitive, who is wanted by Dutch authorities, is accused of staring in excessively pornographic recordings with kids and sexually abusing two girls, ages 11 and 13.

Four fugitives wanted by Spain and the Netherlands for serious sexual offences involving children were identified, which sparked the inquiry.

The ENFAST Network’s activities showed that the fugitives were intimately tied to one another, and that the Dutch authorities sought one fugitive in Spain, while Spain wanted three others who might be in the Netherlands. The fugitives became high-priority targets for the ENFAST Network due to the heinousness of the crimes they were accused of committing, which included kids and severe violence against them.

While awaiting trial, the Málaga Provincial Court wanted one of the fugitives. For the alleged offences of continuous sexual abuse, sexual assault, and the creation of pornographic material involving kids who were 13 and 15 years old at the time of the occurrence in 2016, he is being pursued for a 34-year jail sentence.

For their 2015 offences, the other two fugitives—brothers who were also sought by the Málaga Provincial Court—were given ten years in prison. They met a young woman at the Málaga Fair, and together they committed the crimes of sexual assault, injury, and threats.

In the town of Zeist, the fourth suspect, who is currently wanted by Dutch authorities, sexually assaulted two girls, ages 11 and 13, whom he had entrusted to his care and custody in 2017. Additionally, he has been involved in recordings that featured highly harsh pedophilic content involving animals and children.

Arrests in the Netherlands and Spain at the same time

It was discovered that the Spanish fugitives were carrying documents in other people’s identities during a security operation that was launched after they were discovered in the Dutch town of Groningen. At the same time, the Dutch fugitive was apprehended in Alicante as he fled the house where he had sought sanctuary.

A 46-year-old Spanish man was detained by the National Police in Benidorm on suspicion of burglary after he stole almost €8,300 from the restaurant cash register where he works. According to police sources, the suspect repeatedly opened the safe using the establishment’s security keys.

When investigators discovered that a sizable quantity of money had vanished from a restaurant’s cash register, the investigation got underway. The now-detained individual had been employed as a waiter at the establishment for six months and was responsible for opening it in the mornings, they found after some investigation.

The company’s smart safe was made to guard against tampering. According to the same sources, only a particular key that belonged to the store manager could be used to manually open it. One of the staff members tried to get a “cash withdrawal at the end of December and detected a discrepancy in the funds.” According to the machine, there was “more money than was actually dispensed.” They said that the irregularity had started in the second half of the month and that a total of €8,329.50 was missing.

The thief “had accessed the cash register 24 times in a period of just 12 days,” according to the results of investigations done to explain the facts. There had been no need for these unapproved accesses. The police sources claim that the cash register keys were in the “same ring as the keys to open the premises, which the detainee had access to every morning.”

Because of this situation, the suspect was able to “manually open the cash register and steal the money without the security systems immediately detecting any irregularity.” The employee ceased showing up for work and vanished from sight a few days after the embezzlement was discovered.

The man was arrested in Benidorm after National Police personnel set up a locating and detention system for him. He acknowledged the facts when he spoke to the police. The 46-year-old Spanish man who was arrested has a history of property violations. He was taken to the Benidorm Judicial Authority following his arrest, which will decide on the proper course of action.

Please remember that any criminal act can be reported to the National Police in person, by phone, or through the official website www.policia.es.

This year, Benidorm residents have once again united behind the SEUR Foundation’s “Caps for a New Life” campaign, which Benidorm City Council supports to encourage the recycling of caps for a good cause: to give impoverished children access to medical care that is not paid for by the healthcare system or supplies that help them deal with physical issues they face that they are unable to get through other channels. The results of the 2024 campaign, in which the Foundation gathered almost 1.5 million caps placed by Benidorm citizens in the heart-shaped containers placed across the city, were revealed yesterday, Thursday 13th March, by Mónica Gómez, the Councillor for the Environment.

Gómez pointed out that “the proceeds from recycling these bottle caps go to helping children with medical needs, so we’re not only helping to reduce our environmental impact, but also to improve the quality of life for many children and their families.” The SEUR Foundation is in charge of gathering and transporting these bottle caps to a recycling business that sells compost per tonne at market value, he added.

According to the councillor, the total quantity gathered in Benidorm in the six heart-shaped containers that the City Council placed at various points across the city was 1,575,000 caps, weighing 3.15 tonnes, which equated to a 630 euro financial contribution.

She said that by recycling these caps, 4.73 tonnes of CO2, the primary gas responsible for climate change, have not been released into the atmosphere. That is the equivalent of 42,114 kilometres of travel, or little more than one full orbit of the Earth. In keeping with these equivalencies, the Environment Minister noted that, if arranged in a row, all of the caps would cover 47 kilometres, and that proper waste management would be equal to the CO2 absorbed by a forest of 788 trees in a year or that released by an apartment with the heating on continuously for nearly 19 years. This would further illustrate the impact of this initiative in Benidorm.

Els Tolls (Belgica Avenue), Rincón de Loix (Juan Fuster Zaragoza Street), La Cala (Secretary Juan Baldoví Street), Colonia Madrid (Llorca Linares Social Centre), and two in the central area—one on Maravall Street with Plaza Neptuno and another on Avenida de l’Aigüera, very close to the Town Hall—are the six containers that Gómez stated were installed in Benidorm to facilitate the collection of caps in all neighbourhoods.

He added that since the start of the “Caps for a New Life” project in 2011, more than €1.3 million has been raised to help approximately 200 youngsters from all around Spain with their orthopaedic or medical treatments. Leo, a young Benidorm resident, was one of them. A few years ago, he was given €3,200 to pay for his aquatic therapy sessions as a treatment for Hirschsprung’s disease, a disorder associated with Down syndrome.

This is why Mónica Gómez expressed her appreciation for “the involvement of the citizens of Benidorm, who from the very beginning have supported this initiative that seeks to improve the quality of life of children” and that “in addition to this charitable purpose, also has an impact on the environment by promoting plastic recycling, thereby reducing CO2 emissions.”