13 Dec, 2019 @ 11:03
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Police informant gunned down while seen talking to an officer in eastern Spain

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AN INFORMANT has been gunned down while he was spotted conversing with a police officer on a roadside in Barcelona.

The man was killed instantly in the shock shooting on Thursday evening in Llinars del Vallès district of the Catalan capital.

Police sources have confirmed the man was a police informant. He was gunned down by an attacker dressed in black who quickly fled the scene.

The hooded aggressor, 1.70m tall, withdrew a gun and fired at the two men up to eight times.

The police officer was also hit, but survived due to the bullet-proof vest he was wearing.

According to the same sources, the confidant was proving information on criminals from an armed gang dedicated to extortion and kidnappings who used short arms and high-end vehicles.

Joshua Parfitt

Joshua James Parfitt is the Costa Blanca correspondent for the Olive Press. He holds a gold-standard NCTJ in multimedia journalism from the award-winning News Associates in Twickenham. His work has been published in the Sunday Times, Esquire, the Mail on Sunday, the Daily Mail, the Sun, the Sun on Sunday, the Mirror, among others. He has appeared on BBC Breakfast to discuss devastating flooding in Spain, as well as making appearances on BBC and LBC radio stations.

Contact me now: joshua@theolivepress.es or call +44 07960046259. Twitter: @jjparfitt

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