It’s the stuff of the flicks however it seems an inexplicable safety breach at Madrid’s Alcalá Meco high-security jail allowed a harmful hitman to flee by actually strolling out.
Spanish nationwide Yusef M. L. from the North African enclave of Ceuta, aged solely 20 however already with two alleged murders to his identify, escaped from the jail making the most of the massive variety of guests on the jail for Christmas.
The 20-year-old had been arrested in April within the port of Algeciras in southern Andalucía and had solely been within the jail since 3 December in accordance with preliminary studies.
Regardless of being a excessive danger, he managed to flee hidden amongst teams of family visiting different inmates and himself.
Crimson confronted jail authorities are scratching their heads as to how the escapee evaded the surveillance of jail officers and reached the areas reserved for guests earlier than leaving the jail with them.
The jail which is situated within the municipality of Alcala de Henares is managed by the Ministry of the Inside has an exterior seperate guests centre from the primary prisoners block however is claimed to have “excessive” safety and surveillance measures, because it is among the most weak elements of the jail advanced.
Yusef M., higher often known as ‘El Pastilla’ was remanded in custody because the alleged perpetrator of a minimum of two murders.
The primary was on 6 October 2022, when he allegedly killed a 26-year-old man to order within the El Saladillo neighbourhood of Algeciras when the chief of the gang he was working for, Nayim Okay. A. ‘Tayena’, mistook the person for a member of a rival group.
El Pastilla, driving a motorcycle, fired three photographs at point-blank vary at his sufferer, a household man with two kids and a employee within the port of Algeciras with no connection to the Cádiz mafias.
A bullet fatally pierced one in every of his lungs. His solely mistake was driving a automotive of the identical mannequin as a legal who Tayena wished to settle a rating with.
The second homicide happened on 12 April this yr, when the hitman betrayed his boss and killed Tayena himself with a shot at virtually point-blank vary within the abdomen as he was leaving his home in Los Cortijillos, in Los Barrios, within the province of Cadiz. Yusef was captured that very same afternoon in Algeciras when he was attempting to board the ferry sure for his native Ceuta to cover there after this second homicide, additionally contract killing.
Other than these two murders, El Pastilla is being investigated in numerous shoot-outs carried out by the mafias to take management of drug trafficking within the outskirts of the autonomous Spanish metropolis.
The errors that led to the hitman’s escape are much more inexplicable, in accordance with sources on the jail, making an allowance for that the younger man was in jail underneath FIES 5, one of the crucial restrictive regimes.
Police and Civil Guard officer are presently looking the world and following up with the customer profiles to catch the escapee.
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