British man stops schoolgirl being snatched in Benalmádena

He was passing by when he saw her assailant trying to force her into his car

Detectives from the National Police are investigating an attempted kidnapping in Benalmádena recently where the victim, an 11 year old schoolgirl, was saved from being snatched by a passerby. Reporting on the incident this Thursday, Diario Sur said the child’s rescuer is believed to have been British.

It happened near La Paloma school in Arroyo de la Miel, after the victim had left the building after out of school activities one afternoon and was approached by a man, aged around 25, who tried to force her into his car. She later told her parents that he was dark-skinned and spoke Spanish with a foreign accent.

She was saved by a passerby who heard her cries for help and pushed her assailant away, with the warning that he would call the police if the kidnapper refused to let the youngster go. Police are now looking for the suspect, together with two other men the 11 year old said were with him in the car.

The girl’s father told Sur that he has been trying to locate the youngster’s rescuer to ‘thank him for what he did for my daughter and for me.’


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