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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