The three assassins who shot two men in Salou this Wednesday used automatic rifles. According to the sources consulted by EL PERIÓDICO, one of the weapons that the Mossos d’Esquadra found in the Renault Capture that the assailants used to flee after killing their targets was a kalashnikovthe same model used by jihadist terrorists in the massacres of charlie hebdo wave bataclan nightcluba weapon of war.
Only the army or some elite units of the security forces have firearms of the same lethality, capable of penetrating bulletproof vests like those that protect the police. There is concern within the Mossos about the firepower used by the murderers in a public place where there were also families with minors. This newspaper has interviewed several witnesses such as Eric, othman, Christian or a woman who prefers not to reveal her name. These are citizens who on Wednesday, shortly before eleven at night, when the shooting took place, were next to the ‘Salou 4 you’ apartment complex, where the events took place.
Hail of bullets between families
The victims of the shooting were two men of French nationality who were staying at that hotel. They were surprised by the murderers when they were inside a Citroën parked next to the stairs of the main entrance of ‘Salou 4 you’. The three hooded attackers got out of their car, surrounded the vehicle and opened fire with automatic rifles.
Eric, othman and Christian they heard the shots and describe that the assassins fired two bursts that sounded like those of a “machine gun”, a noise compatible with the Kalashnikov, or with an automatic rifle made in its image and likeness. The ballistics tests must now confirm whether the long weapon seized in the car in the service area that they intended to burn is the weapon of the double crime or, on the contrary, they used another that the two who managed to escape took with them.
Despite the firepower, one of the two men was able to get out of the car and run a few yards. But he too was struck down. That tour, which he did under the rain of bullets from the assassinsmay explain in part that they have been found bullet impacts in at least three different cars to the Citroën of the victims. or in building facades from the square where the hotel is or in the same glass of ‘Salou 4 You’. One of the bullets entered through the driver’s window of Eric’s car and exited through the passenger’s. Cristiano has a bullet in the dashboard of his vehicle. Othman was entering the hotel with his wife and his two young children at the precise moment the attack began. He heard the shots and had to start running towards the hall with the children, very young. The woman who prefers not to reveal her identity was having dinner with her granddaughters on a balcony located a few meters from the place of the attack and they all had to run to take refuge on the floor.
hand grenades
One of the three murderers was arrested shortly after the double crime, around 11:30 p.m. The Mossos located the Captur that they had used to perpetrate the crime in a service area of the AP7, located about 20 kilometers from Salou in the direction of France. They possibly had another car ready to continue their escape and the agents surprised them when one of them was trying to burn the Captur to cover up the tracks. The policemen seized him and prevented the car from burning.
This intervention has allowed the Mossos to recover the weapons that were in the Captur: pistols, a Kalashnikov and two hand grenades. That they would have considered using these grenades, that can cause a powerful explosion in a public place, also worries the Mossos. To be able to move both grenades, the activation of the TEDAX –explosives handling specialists– was required.
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The Mossos suspect that the two murderers who fled got into another car and were able to cross the border that same night. That is why they are in contact with the French authorities and, by having an arrestee, the investigation is moving in the right direction, police sources stress to this newspaper.
Details like the intervened Captur has Marseille license plateadded to the firepower used or the characteristics of the double crime –an execution without prior discussion–, suggest that the shooting in Salou was an action similar to the one It also happened in this municipality a year ago, on May 9, 2022, when three gunmen from Valence (France) murdered a member of a rival gang who was on vacation in the center of town. That is to say, for the second time in 12 months, another chapter of blood between members of French organized crime in Salou.