Ramos was 37 years old, and had dedicated his life to cocaine trafficking. "If you affect distribution, which is what’s happened, you create a supply war. The bullet went right through, it didn't hit my arteries or bones. "Another plus for them is that places like Marbella are the sort of places where you find the likes of government representatives and officials and civil servants and these criminals can make useful contacts. More than 60 other nationalities are involved in organised crime … It's feeling a little bit more indiscriminate. September 16, 2018 – A British man is shot, kneecapped and given a ‘Glasgow Smile’ in Puerto Banus, Marbella. A war is going on at the moment for control of the supply of the drugs with a change of leadership within the gangs. After enforcer Gerard 'Hatchet' Kavanagh is shot dead in Marbella, a Sunday People investigation reveals the extent of the violence involving British and Irish gangs "Corruption exists everywhere but it’s very difficult for mafias to flourish in countries where corruption is not at a ‘tolerable’ level. Med drugs gangs have AK-47s in their arsenal. '"Out of nowhere all these people started running down the road - it was like a stampede of people screaming and crying and that's when we realised it was a shooting. "There's been a sharp increase in Moroccans, North Africans getting involved. The latter maintained the law of silence that reigns over the business.The genesis of what came to be known as Operation Rueda, an operation carried out in close conjunction between the Spanish and Swedish police, began with an investigation into the theft of the all-terrain vehicle that was crashed into the gym. We were all thinking, was this a terror attack? At the time of his death, Maradona had his two young children and his wife in the car. Indeed, in the same month members of the Kinahan gang shot dead Paddy Doyle near Marbella. "After the panic died down and police had the area secure, Elisa and her boyfriend visited the scene. The UK figure for 2018 was almost double that of 2016, when it stood at eight. That makes it a natural place to take over drugs. A lot of the communities now are stating the fact that they have private security. "It has good road connections which means people can reach the east coast of Spain or Portugal in just a few hours. The shooting was carried out by “a hooded man on a bike,” a mode of transport that, along with the black motorcycle with no license plate, was located in one of the five properties that the group of killers was renting in a number of luxury developments in the area.“They slept in a different house nearly every day, and took a lot of security precautions, as well as traveling to Malmö and Morocco a lot,” investigators explain. What it's showing that there is so many different gangs working out here the police are woefully equipped to deal with it and there's the corruption with the Spanish police as well. "It all goes down to it's based in Marbella. "I was really terrified, it was the worst experience of my life. You can see Gibraltar from where I am sitting so at it's closest point it's 14km from Marbella. Video: Footage of arrests and the locations involved (Spanish narration). They slept in a different house nearly every day, and took a lot of security precautions. Algeciras is only 30 minutes down the road - it's the biggest drug trafficking gateway in Europe. I was thinking to myself I'm going to bleed to death.
"Spanish Ministry of Interior figures show there were 440 registered organised crime groups nationwide in 2016 - the last year for which official figures are available.While more than 100 organised crime groups are based in Spain’s largest two cities Madrid and Barcelona, Malaga - alongside the neighbouring province of Cadiz and the coastal provinces of Valencia and Alicante - is on the next rung down with between 51 to 100 groups operating.Among the wave of violent incidents to hit the headlines was the September torture of a notorious British gangster in Marbella.Jewellery thief Craig Moran was attacked by a group of fellow Brits, who And in early October, two gunman opened fire at a tourist resort Estepona as holidaymakers fearing a terrorist attack locked themselves inside shops and cafes.This came just days prior to the execution of a Moroccan-Dutch gangster in nearby Torremolinos. "The Italian mafia - or more specifically the Naples-based mafia, the Neapolitan Camorra - first infiltrated Spain decades ago.Mafia expert Roberto Saviano once said the mafia call the Costa del Sol "Costa Nostra", meaning "our coast".In 2015 mafia crime boss Lucio Morrone, who headed up the Crazy Heads clan, was captured while collecting a money transfer in Benalmadena.It came just a few days after Carlo Leone, from Naples' Elia clan, was arrested further along the coast in San Pedro de Alcantara.The Camorra is known to invest dirty drugs money into local restaurants and legitimate businesses, but are also said to operate as specialist assassins.In recent years, Spanish police claim to have stopped the local branches of Solntsevskaya and Izmailovskaya from operating.The two groups, each with chapters established across the world, are among the most feared of all Russia organised criminal groups.Russian gangs are currently operating in the Costa del Sol and southern Spain, but are not thought to be at the centre of the recent spate of violence.However, on August 6 three Russian criminals - including Lasha Barateli, Russia's third most-wanted gangster - were arrested in the region while allegedly plotting a murder.Almost all of the British and Irish gangs operating on the Spanish coastline are involved in drugs.While there are many small-time crooks plying their trade locally, other more established gangs are importing cocaine in bulk then moving it on into the UK.A few years ago this was dominated by the Kinahan clan - a family of Irish gangsters who established themselves as a leading criminal force on the Spanish coast in 2003.Although this network has quietened down in the wake of a string of high profile murders, British and Irish gangs are still active.Notorious gangster Craig Moran was last month kidnapped before beingPolice are currently hunting a gang of three to four other Brits who are believed responsible for torturing Moran, which included cutting the tendons in his right hand, slashing him from ear to ear, and shooting him in both legs.It is feared gangs from eastern Europe and the Baltics - many of which comprise former soldiers - are growing in influence in the region.They dabble not just in drugs, but also prostitution and human trafficking rackets that are relatively new to the region.The women were believed to have been trafficked to the region from Bulgaria then forced to work on the streets of Puerto Banus.The victims' families were threatened with violence if they refused, and were forced to drug and rob their clients.A similar operation targeting Romanian women was busted in February and saw the two brothers who masterminded it jailed for more than 100 years.Albanian-Kosovar gangsters, many of them ex-military, have also been arrested in recent years for running professional burglary teams across the coastline.Given the vast amounts of cocaine being shipped into and then out of southern Spain, the Colombians also hold considerable influence among local gangsters.Not only do they form the link between European drug distributors and the producers in South America, but they are also feared for their brutal executioners.A drive-by shooting in Marbella in May was later revealed to have been the work of a Colombian drug cartel exacting revenge.The group gunned down David Avila, nickname "The New Maradona", in his own car because he failed to pay back a drug debt.He was killed while his wife, daughter and son sat in the passenger seat of the car on the way home from her communion.Cops later revealed the killers waited until after the communion had finished - so the execution would have maximum effect and send a warning to others.Little is known about these groups, but they are believed to focus on using Spain as a staging base for the importation of drugs to their home countries.A Dutchman, suspected of being the right hand man to a British kingpin, was arrested locally just a few months ago.And a Dutch national, of Moroccan descent, died in hospital after being shot repeatedly in the head and abdomen by a masked gunman at sushi restaurant Tiki in Torremolinos, around 9pm on a Saturday last month.Hamza Ziani was known to have links to the gangs currently engaged in a cocaine war in Utrecht, and was notorious for his bomb-making skills.He had been arrested for making a bomb in Marbella just a month prior, suggesting his death was a settling of scores.Dutch media also reported he was involved in a conflict with the Netherlands drug lord Ridouan Taghi, who's feared to have had up to 20 men killed.The French-Algerian groups operating on the Spanish coast specialise in the importation and distribution of hashish from North Africa.Huge amounts of the drug is brought across the Gibraltar Strait. (But) there's been a big change around which gangs. "It is an entry point for a lot of the drugs coming into Europe because of its proximity to Africa and that’s why a lot of these groups have established their centre of operations here.
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