After spraying his target with up to 20 bullets outside a cannabis club on the Costa del Sol, the 17-year-old assassin chucks his US-made assault rifle underneath a nearby car.
He then hops on his bicycle and makes his way to Torremolinos, where he meets with his accomplices and spends the next day celebrating a mission complete.
What he doesn’t know is that he likely just brutally murdered an innocent young man.
Spanish and Dutch police, and the victim’s own family, are convinced that Jasin Ajar, a 25-year-old from Zwolle, was executed due to a terrible mistake – given that he has zero ties to organised crime.
The terrifying killing occurred just before 2am on Calle Asturias, Fuengirola, on the morning of December 7 last year.
CCTV footage obtained by police showed the teen killer lurking around a cannabis club on Calle General Rodrigo for some time.
As the last customers leave, he puts his mask over his face and pulls an assault rifle out from a bag.
A worker sees the hitman coming and slams the entrance door shut, just as three bullets hit the glass panel and cause a panic.
The three men inside the club and the worker flee onto Calle Asturias, while the shooter singles out the employee, shooting him until he collapses on the ground.
He then approaches the victim, ignoring him as he begs for his life, and empties the entire magazine round into his body and head.
Much of the attack was recorded on security cameras. Investigators from Group II of the Organised Crime Unit of the Udyco Costa del Sol told La Opìnion de Malaga of the killer’s coldness and determination, as well as the skill he demonstrated with a very unusual military weapon, suggesting ‘prior training.’
With the help of their colleagues from Group IV, the Greco Costa del Sol, and the Fuengirola Police Station, they were able to reconstruct the crime and identify the seven people involved.
As a result of the investigation, dubbed Operation Smoke, six suspects have been arrested and one is dead.
After a few minutes cycling from the scene, the shooter continued on foot until he hailed a taxi on the beach promenade.
He asked to be taken to Torremolinos, where he also walked for a while until he reached a centrally located 24hr bar, where he waited until dawn.
He was picked up by two men, one of whom was immediately recognised on CCTV as one of those present in the cannabis club at the time of the attack.
The investigation identifies him as the lookout, the person who was supposed to point out the victim.
The three of them, after having breakfast, went to a hotel in Torremolinos where they stayed and celebrated their mission with alcohol, for several hours.
Belgian and Dutch media have named and given the initials of the core group of the plot. The lookout is believed to be Mustafa A., arrested three days after the murder while walking down a street in Torremolinos.
The man who accompanied him in the cafe was Afif J., under investigation in the Netherlands for another murder committed in Amsterdam 17 days after the one in Fuengirola, and who died in January after a shootout with the police in Rotterdam.
Spanish investigators believe that both men pointed out the cannabis club to the killer and that they handed him the weapon at the same hotel, which had previously been brought from France by three young Dutch women in a rental car.
The shooter was identified as Shah C., a Belgian who was 17 years old at the time and who had escaped from a juvenile detention centre in his country where he had been held for much less serious offenses.
The investigation revealed that after the crime he traveled by bus from the Costa del Sol to Paris with Afif, then to Amsterdam, where Nail el G., barely 20 years old, was located.
He is accused of ordering the crime in Fuengirola and others in the Netherlands, all linked to the Mocro Maffia.
The scourge of hiring teen assassins is nothing new on the Costa del Sol, but is becoming more frequent.
Recently, the Policia Nacional narrowly prevented two executions in Torremolinos and Fuengirola, one commissioned to a 17-year-old Swede and the other to two compatriots aged 16 and 19.
Many are in vulnerable situations, willing to thrive in organised crime for a much lower amount than a professional hitman would demand. While previously they paid €50,000 or €60,000 to eliminate someone, a minor can be offered a maximum of €20,000.
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