Since last December 23 in the afternoon Yousef Mohamed Lehrech aka “El Pastilla” He has become the most wanted criminal by the Spanish police. That day, taking advantage of a communication with his relatives, he escaped from the Madrid prison of Alcalá-Meco, taking advantage of a series of negligence in custody that allowed him to leave outside without anyone noticing him. He had been less than 20 days in the center after being transferred from the Algeciras prison to avoid being killed, since he had murdered his boss, Nayim KA, “Tayena” with a shot in the chest. on April 12 in Los Barrios (Cádiz).
After communicating with his relatives, Yousef left without the custody of a prison official and explained that he had a visit, so they opened the door for him. There he mixed with other visitors who were also going to see prisoners on one of the busiest days in jail, since it is a date before Christmas.
After camouflaging himself, he took advantage of an oversight by the official who was returning the DNI to mix with those who were about to leave and then he did so through the vehicle access area, so the Civil Guard told him that he could not go there and to return inside the building. They had mistaken him for another visitor to the center. It was then that he left through the door that corresponded to the outside without anyone stopping him.
Once outside, he was able to escape with outside help, according to investigation sources. National Police officers They are investigating whether he contacted his family in Ceuta or had the support of people who had been with him in drug trafficking gangs in Algeciras and Ceuta. Police sources believe that the suspect hHe was able to go to Morocco, since he had acquaintances or relatives in this country, although they are still looking for him and that is why they have issued a search and arrest warrant that they have sent to all the State security forces and bodies, such as the Mossos d’Esquadra.
Maximum diffusion
Furthermore, they have insisted on the same message on social networks in the last few hours: “We are looking for Yousef Mohamed Lehrech, 20 years old, 1.88 meters tall and nicknamed “El Pastilla”, escaped from the Alcalá Meco prison, in Madrid. We remind you how you can notify us if you have seen him or have any information about his whereabouts, by calling 091 or by emailing ‘[email protected]’. Tor repost can help arrest him“, they point out, remembering the importance of dissemination.
Yousef Mohamed Lehrech was in provisional prison for two murders, that of a man whom he mistook for a member of a rival gang and that of his boss Tayena’, and was arrested by the Civil Guard when I was in the port of Algeciras and intended to return to Ceuta. He was classified as a prisoner in the Special Monitoring Inmate File, that is, in the category of the most dangerous and requiring greater control. Although, however, he left without custody without communicating.
Union sources consider that the lack of personnel and the outdated protocols of Alcalá-Meco produced this series of negligence that ended with the escape of the prisoner, who was admitted to the so-called respect module for young people, where newly arrived inmates spend the first weeks adapting to the center’s rules of conduct.
double murder
Penitentiary Institutions have begun an internal investigation into how the suspect could escape and have been checking the route by which he escaped, in addition to interrogating several workers, according to the same sources. In this sense, it is noted that Yousef should not be in that Alcalá-Meco prison, since he does not meet the conditions for inmates classified as dangerous for the crimes for which he is in provisional detention.
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“El Pastilla” is in prison for killing a resident of Algeciras in October 2022 whom he mistook for a member of the rival gang ‘Los Piolines’ and for ending the life of his former friend. boss ‘Tayena’, one of the ‘drug lords’ of Ceuta, last April near his home in Los Barrios (Cádiz). Hours after this crime, the Civil Guard detained ‘El Pastilla’ in the port of Algeciras when he intended to return to Ceuta.
He is also accused of belonging to a criminal organization such as the one controlled by ‘Tayena’, dedicated to drug trafficking and in which ‘El Pastilla’ would be in charge of various tasks. Precisely to end the life of his boss would be one of the inmates most at risk of being attacked in the Algeciras prison, where his former colleagues were being held. That’s why he was transferred to Alcalá-Meco from which he was able to escape. Nobody yet explains how he could do it.