19 Dec, 2023 @ 13:18
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Gun threat: Man vows to kill police after his car is towed away on the Costa del Sol

A MAN furious that his car had been towed away armed himself with two shotguns and hailed a cab to the police station vowing to kill any officers he encountered.

But before he could get out of the taxi, forewarned police were waiting and arrested him before he could carry out his planned assault.

Police say that the man appeared ‘out of control’ and was shouting that he was ‘going to kill innocent people’.

The moment police arrested the gunman- Photo Aytmto. de Benalmadena

The man, described as elderly, had lost his cool when his car was towed from a loading space outside a supermarket in the Arroyo de la Miel district of Benalmadena (Malaga). Rather than simply pay his fine and retrieve his car from the pound he armed himself with the guns and 50 cartridges.

He then hopped in a taxi telling it to head for the Policia Local station.

He made death threats against the police and tow truck employyeets, saying he did not care about the consequences because ‘everyone dies like in the wars’.

Police received a warning call and quickly worked out a plan to apprehend the man before anyone was hurt.

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Dilip Kuner

Dilip Kuner is a NCTJ-trained journalist whose first job was on the Folkestone Herald as a trainee in 1988.
He worked up the ladder to be chief reporter and sub editor on the Hastings Observer and later news editor on the Bridlington Free Press.
At the time of the first Gulf War he started working for the Sunday Mirror, covering news stories as diverse as Mick Jagger’s wedding to Jerry Hall (a scoop gleaned at the bar at Heathrow Airport) to massive rent rises at the ‘feudal village’ of Princess Diana’s childhood home of Althorp Park.
In 1994 he decided to move to Spain with his girlfriend (now wife) and brought up three children here.
He initially worked in restaurants with his father, before rejoining the media world in 2013, working in the local press before becoming a copywriter for international firms including Accenture, as well as within a well-known local marketing agency.
He joined the Olive Press as a self-employed journalist during the pandemic lock-down, becoming news editor a few months later.
Since then he has overseen the news desk and production of all six print editions of the Olive Press and had stories published in UK national newspapers and appeared on Sky News.

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