Efe Barcelona

Barcelona

Updated Thursday, January 25, 2024-11:14

The National Police have arrested in Barcelona a fugitive wanted in Romania for holding

two underage girls

in an apartment in Bucharest for seven hours , forcing them to have sexual relations with each other and

physically attacking them while threatening them with a firearm.

As reported this Thursday by the National Police, the man had a European arrest and surrender order issued by Romania for the crimes of kidnapping and drug trafficking, and has been arrested within the framework of the ENFAST network (European Network of Fugitive Search Teams). ).

The events that motivated this fugitive's claim occurred in July 2013, when the man detained these two young minors in his apartment in the Romanian capital, Bucharest.

Police investigations determined that

he had been living in Barcelona under a false identity since 2021

, which he used to remain in Spain and "regularize" his administrative situation.

After extensive monitoring, the National Police finally arrested him in the Catalan capital.

The detainee was known in his country as

The King of Ethnobotany

for being a pioneer in establishing the first 'dream shop' in Romania.