National Police agents have arrested a 38-year-old fugitive of Moroccan nationality in the Alicante town of Cox who was being sought by the authorities of his country for a crime of homicide.
Through the Interpol Spain National Central Office, a request for collaboration was received for the search and arrest of a Moroccan citizen who was subject to an International Detention Order for Extradition (O.I.D.) by the Moroccan authorities, having been convicted. for a crime of homicide committed in 2012 and for which he would face a sentence of life imprisonment.
As reported by the National Police in a statement, upon learning that this fugitive could be hiding in the province of Alicante, agents from Organized Crime Group I of the Alicante Provincial Police Station began police efforts to locate the suspect.
The agents centered the home of the fugitive in the Alicante town of Cox, where a police device was carried out that resulted in his arrest.
The acts with which he is accused were committed in 2012 in the city of Nador (Morocco). The detainee and two other people attacked a minor with stones, who died due to his injuries.
The other two convicted men admitted the facts, alleging that they had thrown stones at the victim because he was trying to steal a goat and accused the detainee of having thrown the stone that had caused the victim’s death.
The detainee was placed at the disposal of the Central Court of Instruction Five of the National Court, the body in charge of carrying out the procedures for his subsequent extradition.
