A man has been shot in Marbella in the third suspected act of gangland violence this week.
It emerged this afternoon that police discovered a man shot in the leg late on Wednesday night.
According to reports, the Policia Nacional discovered the victim when a patrol vehicle pulled over the car he was travelling in.
The vehicle had been driving ‘suspiciously’ in a residential area. Inside the car were two men, including the shooting victim.
Officers called emergency services, who took the injured man to a nearby hospital.
His condition is not believed to be life-threatening. Police have opened an investigation to determine the circumstances of the shooting, without ruling out any hypothesis. No arrests have yet been made.
The shooting comes amid ongoing investigations into two violent deaths discovered earlier this week in different parts of Málaga province.
One body was found on a rural track near Alpandeire, in the Serranía de Ronda, by a shepherd who said it had not been there earlier in the day.
The Guardia Civil opened a judicial investigation, with forensic reports later confirming that the victim had suffered multiple injuries.
Local sources said the deceased was not a resident of Alpandeire, and evidence suggests the body may have been moved to the site.
A day later, another corpse was pulled from the water at Puerto Banus, Marbella. Witnesses reported seeing the occupants of a semi-rigid boat resembling a narcolancha dump the body into the harbour before speeding away into open sea.
Investigators are now probing whether the two deaths and the Marbella shooting are linked, with growing suspicion that they may be part of a gangland score-settling.
The spate of violence follows a month of intense police operations targeting drug-trafficking networks on the Costa del Sol.
According to Málaga’s provincial police chief, Roberto Rodríguez Velasco, officers have dismantled seven criminal organisations in recent weeks, seizing nine tonnes of drugs and around 40 firearms, several of them military-grade.
