Europol’s most wanted list includes an axe murderer, a prison escapee and mafia mobsters (Pictures: Bjoern Wylezich/ Europol)
Twenty four criminals with ‘blood on their hands’ have been added to a list of Europe’s most wanted fugitives.
Europol, the law enforcement agency of the European Union, released an updated list of the criminals they most want to catch, and the gruesome crimes they committed.
Among the 24, police are desperately searching for an axe murderer, a prison escapee and mafia henchmen.
Europol warns that all of those their list are dangerous, and must not be approached.
Ali Shebab Ahmed
Europol has released the least information about this 20-year-old fugitive. He has been on the run since he allegedly killed a person in Stockholm in June 2023.
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Costel Crinu Andronic
Andronic, 40, is wanted by Romanian police for an attempted murder dating back to 2017. He violently attacked a man in a pub, punching and kicking him in the head and assaulting the victim with a bottle. Andronic has already been sentenced to eight years for the crime, but is still not in police hands.
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Engelbert Balogh
The new 31-year old stabbed one of his friends with a knife in an apartment in Hungary in October 2022. The victim almost bled to death but was saved by last minute medical attention. Balogh faces a 15 year sentence if he is caught by Europol.
Engelbert Balogh
Wilhelmus Beckmann
In 2008, Beckmann, 66, murdered his girlfriend in the Belgian city of Merksplas before then staging a violent robbery and attempting to set fire villa. Despite his attempt to hide his crimes, the Dutch-born criminal was convicted in his absence by a court in Antwerp in January this year.
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Domenico Bellatoni
This mafia henchman, now 80, has been on the run for over 50 years. Part of the Piromalli mafia clan, he is accused of shooting and killing one man and attempting to kill another. Bellatoni, from Italy, has been convincted to life imprisonment.
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Tomas Bolgovas
Bolgovas, 41, is accused of taking part in a contract killing of a 26-year-old in 2015. The criminal gang’s victim was shot 12 times and the Lithuanian is accused of organising the getaway car. His co-conspirators are already in jail but he is still on the loose.
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Dominique Delattre
Named ‘the old lady’, Delattre, 62, escaped from prison in August 2000. He was imprisoned on a 20 year sentence for the robbery of a cash transport vehicle in 1997 in the French city of Nîmes, which left a man seriously injured.
Dominique Delattre (Picture: Europol)
Abdenour Djabri
Suspected of attempted murder, Polish authorities accuse Djabri, 43, of attempting to strangle a woman in January 2022.
Abdenour Djabri (Picture: Europol)
Alexander Elberg
Helping German authorities find this suspected murderer will bring a 1,500 euro reward. Elberg, 67 from Russia, allegedly killed a man on a forest path near Stuttgart in 1991. His whereabouts were initially traced to Russia in 1993 and then into Ukraine in 2004, but police do not know where he is now.
Alexander Elberg (Picture: Europol)
Janos Gal
On 11 September 2024, the Hungarian born 42-year-old allegedly stabbed his wife and mother-in-law repeatedly with a knife. While his wife died, his mother-in-law was saved by doctors, all after Gal fled the scene of the crime.
Janos Gal (Picture: Europol)
Cristian Yong Granadino
Granadino was 30 when his underage girlfriend, 16, split up with after suffering abuse. They had met when she was only 14. After the break-up, Granadino stalked and harassed before slitting her throat and putting her body in a suitcase in 2010. A few hours later, he bid farewell to his landlord and has not been seen since.
Cristian Yong Granadino (Picture: Europol)
Maris Jankevics
The 45-year-old Latvian has been missing since a particularly brutal crime. The suspect is accused of murdering a woman by repeatedly striking her in the face with a blunt object, inflicting at least seven cuts and nine stab wounds, before burning her and strangling her in the face.
Maris Jankevics (Picture: Europol)
Krystian Kolompar
With a distinctive face tattoo over his right eye, Kolompar, 30, allegedly robbed and killed a person, alongside others, in Krakow in December 2021. He later stole money out of a safe, and has not been tracked down by Polish authorities since.
Krystian Kolompar (Picture: Europol)
Ben Mahfoudh Montassar
Montassar has already been sentenced in Luxemberg to 10 years in prison for attempted murder for a crime involving knuckledusters dating back to 2018. Montassar, 28, violently assaulted his victim and tried to strangle her. He was in custody from December 2018 until July 2019 before he was released under judicial conditions, but has not served a single day of his sentence, which was set in 2023.
Ben Mahfoudh Montassar (Picture: Europol)
Saidchuseyn Naurbajew
In May 2015, Naurbajew, now 39, drove with an accomplice to a house which they believed would have valuable items to plunder. There they attacked and killed the owner before stealing historical and lucrative items and setting fire to the property. While his partner has been caught, he remains on the run and has been sentenced to 17 years in prison.
Saidkhuseyn Naurbayev (Picture: Europol)
Abdou Njie
The Swedish Police are particularly desperate to catch Njie, 23, because is he a member of a well-known criminal organisation and could become relevant to committing other murders, although he is believed to be hiding abroad. The Swede is already suspected of shooting and killing a person in August 2022.
Abdou Njie (Picture: Europol)
Karim Ouali
Wielding an axe, Ouali murdered a fellow air-traffic controller at EuroAirport in Basil. The Frenchman, who Europol says suffers from persecution mania and was in a psychotic state, fled the scene 2011 and has not been found since.
Karim Ouali (Picture: Europol)
Vincenzo Parisi
Another Italian mobster, Parisi, now 75, was convicted to life imprisonment for the murder of two men in Foggia.
Vincenzo Parisi (Picture: Europol)
Anton Zhivkov Petkovski
Petkovski and an associate used a machine gun to kill his victim in a Bulgarian village in 2001. In order to cover his tracks, he then killed his co-conspirator and his second victim’s face. Over ten years later, Petkovski was sentenced to life imprisonment but remains on the run.
Anton Zhivkov Petkovski (Picture: Europol)
Joze Pirh
In May 2017, Pirh attempted to kill his ex-partner and her boyfriend by shooting through their front door with a pistol. He fled immediately after is it is suspected that he is hiding in one of the former Yugoslavian countries.
Joze Pirh
Leons Rusins
Rusins, 54, stopped a car in the middle of the road driven by his ex-wife, son and ex-wife’s mother in 2023. There, he allegedly repeatedly stabbed his ex-partner whileher family watched on.
Leons Rusins (Picture: Europol)
Vladimir Vaclavek
Reportedly under the alias Salim Halibi, Vaclavek has been on the run for over two decades after a suspected murder in 2001.
Jian Xia
Still called ‘dangerous’ by Europol, Xia, 47, fled the Netherlands after a seven months pregnant woman in 2004. Police know he went to Schiphol and Antwerp before disappearing. Authorities believe he could be living in Spain under a different name.
Jian Xia (Picture: Europol)
Kamil Zyla
Zyla, 37, is believed to have stabbed his victim near a local football stadium in Poland 50 times, with wounds to the head, neck, chest, and upper limbs. Europol are still searching for him.
Kamil Zyla
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