The National Police have arrested a violent fugitive claimed by the Croatian authorities and who was on
the list of Europol's most wanted fugitives since 2019
in a central Madrid hotel .
The arrested man had a legal claim in force for his involvement in a brawl that occurred in a Croatian nightclub and
faces a life sentence for other serious crimes that caused "great social alarm"
in his country, reports the General Directorate of Police .
The fugitive, a month before the last fight for which he was wanted,
had tried to kill another man with a firearm, also in Croatia
.
Thus, he was included in Europol's "European Most Wanted" list.
Police investigations
centered the fugitive in Barcelona after having spent last Christmas in Ibiza
.
The agents found out that
he had met his partner in a central Madrid hotel on the 20th
, when he was arrested in a device in which security measures were extreme.
The fugitive carried that he used to avoid being discovered.
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