ARCHIVED - Fugitive wanted over baseball bat road rage attack arrested in Alicante
A Croatian man who brutally beat a motorist following a row had been staying at a "well-known" hotel on the Costa Blanca.
National Police in Alicante have arrested a dangerous fugitive who, together with a friend, savagely beat a motorist with a baseball bat in a road rage attack.
The brutal assault took place in Croatia capital, Zagreb, in April 2017, but to avoid serving a five-year prison sentence, the detainee fled the country before Spanish police caught up with him at a hotel in Alicante, and executed a European Arrest Warrant.
The violent beating in 2017 unfolded after the occupants of three cars became embroiled in a heated row, before the detained fugitive - the driver of one of the vehicles - grabbed a baseball bat from his car and began attacking the victim, while his friend kicked and punched the motorist, fracturing his jaw.
A passenger in the victim's car tried to help, but the two aggressors threatened to kill him, and given the vicious beating he was witnessing, returned to the vehicle, but within minutes he too was violently attacked while sitting in the front passenger seat. Both men received "serious injuries".
Before leaving the scene in their own cars, the fugitive and his co-attacker caused extensive damage to the victim's vehicle.
Once aware the wanted man was in the Alicante area, the National Police, in coordination with the Fugitive Group of the General Commissariat of Judicial Police, carried out surveillance and tracked the detainee down before arresting him at the weekend.
IMAGE: Policia Nacional