Agents of the International Cooperation Division of the National Police have transferred to Spain this Wednesday Yusef M. L., alias ‘El Pastilla’, the prisoner who escaped on Christmas Eve from the Alcalá-Meco penitentiary center (Madrid) and who was arrested on January 25 at a train station in the German town of Leipzig.
The National Police has released images of ‘El Pastilla’ guarded by agents from the SIRENE office of the Police. The fugitive was located in Germany in an investigation carried out by the Fugitive Location Section, through the ENFAST Network. ‘El Pastilla’, 20 years old, was in prison after being arrested for the murder in April of Nayim K.A., alias ‘Tayena’, head of one of the organized crime factions in Ceuta, and another 26-year-old man whom the gang confused with a member of a rival group.
He had been wanted since he escaped from Alcalá-Meco on December 23, on Christmas Eve. Sources from Penitentiary Institutions explained that the same afternoon they detected the absence of this inmate, so they activated the protocols consisting of communicating what happened to the Security Forces and Corps and the Court handling the prisoner’s case.
The National Police had already detained ‘El Pastilla’ previously, at the end of May, in the port of Algeciras and he was provisionally imprisoned in the prison of this Cadiz city. He was classified as level five in the File of Special Monitoring Inmates (FIES) of Penitentiary Institutions.
Due to his conflict with a group of inmates from that prison, he was transferred to Alcalá-Meco at the beginning of last December. On Saturday afternoon, Christmas Eve, he escaped just after communicating with relatives, bypassing security checks and mixing among said relatives to flee without violence or intimidation.
On January 11, the General Secretariat of Penitentiary Institutions, dependent on the Ministry of the Interior, opened a file against prison officials for their alleged involvement in the chain of errors that led to the prisoner’s escape.
This opening of the file affects three officials of the Madrid prison: the person who led ‘El Pastilla’ to the communications room (the locutorio), the person in charge of taking the relatives outside the prison once they saw their children (among whom the young fugitive camouflaged himself) and the official at the main door, who did not warn that a person had not given him his ID before leaving the facilities.
