VIDEO: Fugitive is arrested by the National Police after fleeing to Alicante

The National Police have detained a suspect with an active European arrest warrant against him, wanted in connection with the disappearance of a man over 25 years ago in Poland, according to a police press release issued today.

The detainee, who is classed as ‘dangerous’ and has been on the run from Polish authorities could face up to 25 years in prison for murder as he allegedly belonged to a Polish criminal group and was involved in the Zgorzelec War.

The group organised cross-border smuggling, and during the 1990s took part in an armed conflict near the border with the Czech Republic and Germany, known as the Zgorzelec War for the control of the smuggling routes.

🚩La @policia detiene a un peligroso #fugitivo buscado por las autoridades polacas

📍Localizado en #Alicante

🔹Se enfrenta a 25 años de cárcel por un delito de #asesinato

🔹Perteneció a un grupo criminal polaco y se le relaciona con la muerte de un varón desaparecido en 1997 pic.twitter.com/wAgo5pO2kI

— Policía Nacional (@policia) July 17, 2023

A recent operation by the Polish Central Bureau of Investigation (CBSP), discovered the body of a man who had been missing since 1997, found with obvious signs of violent death from gunshot wounds, in the region of Lower Silesia in Poland.

An investigation by the Polish authorities focused on two Polish nationals as the main suspects. Fearing arrest, the two immediately disappeared and their escape activated the ‘Shadow Hunters,’ a CBSP group that specialises in locating fugitives.

Meanwhile, the Polish National Prosecutor’s Office issued the appropriate European Arrest Warrants, in case they decided to flee the country. One of the men was arrested in Mazovia, not far from Warsaw, and the other was rumoured to have fled to Spain.

This information was passed on to the Fugitive Tracking Section of the National Police by the Polish authorities, and an investigation carried out with GRECO Levante and the UDYCO of Alicante led them to a house in Orihuela.

Officers deduced that the fugitive lived there with his partner, and left hastily just a few hours before the arrival of the Spanish police. Thanks to the fluid and continuous exchange of information with the CBSP, the vehicle used by the fugitive had been identified when he crossed the border between Poland and Germany, on his way to Spain.

As a result of this new information, and given the danger of the individual, an extensive surveillance operation was set up in the vicinity of the property which resulted in his successful arrest as he was getting out of the car.

Various documents, cash, and three mobile devices were seized. He is currently awaiting deportation back to Poland.