Further concerns about attempted child snatchings on the Costa del Sol circulate on social media

PARENTS in Fuengirola were concerned after a message did the rounds on social media warning of another attempted snatching of a child outside a local school on Thursday, March 23.

The message, reading, “Be careful with your children.  Yesterday they tried to snatch my daughter from Colegio el Tejar.  She came out of dance class and was walking home when a grey car stopped and a man told her to get in.”

The message came following an incident on Monday, March 6 when Mijas Sports Club on the Costa del Sol warned about an individual attempting to drag one of their young players into his car.

A second message then later went around parents claiming to be from Colegio del Tejar telling them to pick up their children from school.

The school later came out saying this message had been false and calling for parents to not re-send messages unless they were absolutely sure of their origin.

However, on Friday, March 27, the school later sent a message out that “reliable sources” had confirmed the original claim of an attempted snatching, however that it was not related to a pupil of the schools.

They later said that children should be picked up from within the school itself.

Sources claim the man alleged to be involved in both the school and sports centre incidients it, “an individual aged between thirty and forty years old, tall, stocky, with a goatee and a grey-coloured car.”

The Euro Weekly News would like remind all parents, as ever to never leave children to walk home alone and to pick them up directly from their school on time and never just from the edge of the road.