Kidnapped Spanish man rescued using photo of steering wheel
Kidnapped Spanish man rescued using photo of steering wheel
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Man sent coordinates and photo of steering wheel to his girlfriend allowing officers to locate car and rescue him. Spanish police have rescued a man who was kidnapped and bundled into the boot of a car after he managed to alert his girlfriend by sending her a photo of the vehicle’s steering wheel and a set of coordinates.
On 23 January Policía Nacional officers in the Andalucían province of Málaga received a report that a man had been kidnapped two days earlier on the promenade of the town of Sabinillas. The man had been taken by a group of men travelling in two cars who were looking for information on the whereabouts of a third man who had apparently swindled them out of €30,000 (£25,000) in a drug deal.
Officers were also provided with videos of the victim, showing him face down and with a pistol at his head while he was asked where the third man was. Unknown to his captors, however, the kidnapped man managed to contact his friends and send his girlfriend a photo of the steering wheel logo of the car he was travelling in. He also sent coordinates that led police to a street in Torre del Mar, a town along the coast from Málaga.
“Officers then headed immediately to the location, where they found a parked car that matched the make and model of the vehicle in the victim’s photo,” the force said in a statement. “They then discovered another vehicle in the same area, which matched one of the cars used in the kidnapping in Sabinillas.”.
