When you leave your vehicle at an airport car park, you expect to get it back in the same state that you left it... which was not case for one car owner in Málaga.

The reason for the title, will become clear shortly as we explain the details of the incident.

One employee of such a parking facilities near Málaga Airport ‘borrowed’ a client’s car to ram raid his own company offices in order to knock off the company safe.

Ram raiding in Spanish is called alunizaje, which normally means a ‘moon landing’ but now doubles for this way of gaining entrance to a premises. An aterrizaje is a landing; in the sense of landing an aircraft and has no slang, second meaning.

Anyway, back to the plot! The incident took place on the 31st of August in the Villa Rosa Trading Estate, which is just across the road from the airport. The company picks up travellers’s cars from the dropping-off, airport car park and returns them when they customers fly back in.

The 37-year-old employee allegedly stole a car from the company car park and rammed the front door of the offices several times times before succeeding and making off with the safe. He then fled the scene, leaving the car on nearby wasteland and setting fire to it.

The fire service was called out to deal with the abandoned-car fire and after extinguishing the flames, found the safe on the back seats. We don’t know whether he managed to get it open – if he had had the combination, he would have emptied it on the premises instead of stealing the whole thing.

It was thanks to the CCTV that police investations led to his being identified and his subsequent arrest.

(News: City & Metropolitan Area, Costa del Sol, Malaga, Andalucia)

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