Ertzainza police patrol the Basque Country. Photo vozpopuli/Twitter.
Spain woke up in shock after the suspect in the murder of eight men in the Spanish city of Bilbao handed himself over to the regional police of the Basque Country.
MB (25), born in Colombia, is accused of interacting with his victims through a dating app.
Local security sources told the EFE news agency that the suspect surrendered with the intention of cooperating with police after being seen on television that he was wanted. When it stopped, He denied that he was the author of the works in which he was accused..
An arrest warrant from a court in Bilbao charged him and Basque police and other Spanish security forces were looking for him for several days.
In the courts, there were four murder cases that took place between September and October 2021 in Bilbao, but investigators suspect that the accused may be related to four other past crimes, which in their time were considered natural deaths.
The deceased used a network of contacts, which the alleged killer captured them.
It is believed that he negotiated with the victims in their homes and there, through the administration of some substance, he was able to get their card codes and other bank detailsto withdraw money from their accounts at ATMs and make transfers in their name.
The trigger for the opening of the investigation was the possible murder of a 43-year-old Bilbao resident on October 18, 2021, whose bank accounts were eventually robbed.
The suspect in these crimes was attacked by a man, a resident of this Basque city, who survived his attack.
Fleeing the scene after its latest attack, the alleged perpetrator of the crimes leaving a backpack with personal belongings and a container with a narcotic substance, which facilitated its identification.
According to EFE sources from the investigation, he was already arrested for fraud in 2019 by the Basque police.
Source: EFE.
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