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Amir Mekky, the leader of the hitmen who terrorized the Costa del Sol
At Udyco, youth, cold blood and the ability to leave no trace of the man who coordinated the Swedish group that imported drug terrorism to our country stand out.
Jose Torres 06/13/2020 | 22:20
Amir Faten Mekky dumps the trash before being detained in Dubai.
Amir Faten Mekky dumps the trash before being detained in Dubai.
The fugitive left for Morocco before the bomb attack on a drug lord's home in Benahavís and his business in San Pedro Alcántara. His capture in Dubai ends a complex investigation involving the police and intelligence services in several countries. Previously, the organization murdered Maradona and Zocato and was implicated in more than 17 crimes in Sweden.

Not even the hired killers get rid of taking out the trash. A video recorded by the Dubai police during the surveillance of the suspect helped to identify Amir Faten Mekky, the leader of the Swedish organization that in 2018 sowed terror on the Costa del Sol by attacking other narcos with explosives or executing them in front of their children. , as happened in Marbella with David Ávila, the Maradona. The images of a man who barely looks out to throw a bag into the container has ended almost two years of hard work on the Udyco-Costa del Sol to catch a criminal who stands out for his youth, discipline, cold blood and a total lack of empathy from which not even their small circle of collaborators is spared. Inspector Marcos Ortega, head of Organized Crime Group I of the National Police, who has carried out this particular hunting of the hunter, and who defines Mekky as "extremely reserved, discreet and suspicious even of his own environment" knows this well. A guy with the same social ability as a drifting Baltic iceberg, but with the skill and instinct of a yautja in the Guatemalan jungle. A sociopath.

Born in Copenhagen 23 years ago, he belongs to the second generation of a Danish family of Iranian origin, although his life takes place in Malmö, the Swedish city located on the other side of the Sond Strait. There the gangs carry out a savage war to control drug trafficking in the slums. As in Stockholm, extortion and murder have degenerated into a spiral of violence that includes the use of grenades and all kinds of explosives. "They kill for the territory, even for petty disagreement", warns Ortega before acknowledging that the presence of Swedish criminal groups was not relevant on the Malaga coast until 2018: "In approaching this investigation, links emerged between Scandinavian organizations, mostly Swedish, many of them already settled on the coast and others that are round trip ».

The researcher remembers when his Nordic colleagues told him that a discussion between Mekky and his environment with a third person meant the immediate elimination of this. Before making the jump to the Costa del Sol, the Swedish authorities linked the group to more than 17 murders and attributed to their ringleader contacts with Ridouan Taghi, leader of the Angels of Death and the most wanted man in the Netherlands until his arrest. a few months ago, also in Dubai, accused of being behind a dozen crimes.

Amir was only 20 years old when he landed in Malaga in September 2017. He and his group, including the figure of his lieutenant Agmat Abdul Karim, settled between Estepona and Marbella in a stable way for several months. His brother's attempt to invest in a restaurant in San Pedro Alcántara showed that they had come to stay. It was not long before they realized the advantage to their activities of living so close to Morocco, where Mekky maintained maternal family ties in the Casablanca area. "Every time they acted they got out of the way and crossed the Strait," says Ortega. It was a tsunami. Between March 25 and October 10, 2018, the group calcinated two businesses of the Maradonabefore riddling him after leaving the church where one of his sons has just made his first communion; they eliminated Sofian Ahmed Barrak, the Zocato , another influential drug dealer from Ceuta who was shot nine times during a lock-up at the door of his Estepona house; and they detonated two bombs that same night that caused significant damage to the home of another drug trafficker in Benahavís and his car wash business in San Pedro Alcántara.


Damage after the explosive attack on a San Pedro business.
While the Costa del Sol looked in the mirror of Malmö, Udyco took advantage of the mistake made by the hit man who executed Ávila in front of his family. Far from disposing of the motorcycle he used to flee, the murderer covered the entire route between the crime scene and the urbanization where part of the hired killer resided. The researchers managed to reconstruct their itinerary by investing millions of hours to link images from different security cameras. This puzzle was key to dismantling the organization in two phases that added a dozen detainees on the Costa del Sol and Sweden, but when this happened Mekky was on one of her escapes. Udyco knows that she left Malaga on August 23, after the murder of Sofian. Then she returned to organize the attacks with the explosives and, again,. He returned to Morocco before his companions carried out the first known narcoterrorist action of this type in Spain. As in all violent group actions, the leader stayed away from the crime scene.

Knowing that he could not return to Spain or Sweden, on November 18 he flew to the United Arab Emirates with legal documentation, but from there he used another identity that made him practically invisible. Its location mobilized the authorities in Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom, Dubai, Qatar and Thailand, a country where movements of many Mekky acquaintances are detected that could provide coverage in the paradise of Phuket. Finally, with the support of the intelligence services, the fugitive was detected covering the route between Thailand, Qatar and Dubai, where he was finally detained in a discreet home on the morning of June 4.