Fast team of the police Klist fugitive Belgian in Spain who got lifelong for a murder of woman
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The Fugitive Active Search Team of the Federal Police won Pascal Catry last week in the Spanish Torremolinos. The man was sentenced in 2002 to lifelong imprisonment for the murder of his wife and has been on the run since 2017.
In December 2002, Pascal Catry was found guilty of the murder of his wife Maria-Christina Alba-Torres in 2000 by the Hof van Assisen in Hainaut in Hainaut. The couple broke up for a short time in 1998. Catry then moved into his mistress. After a reconciliation, in which the marital life between the two more or less normally went, it was Maria-Christina who broke the relationship in September 2000 and left the marital home. Catry couldn’t take that and shot his wife.
He was sentenced to lifelong imprisonment. In 2017, however, he did not return to Marneffe prison after, he had received a go -out permit. Since then the man was on the run.
The Brussels public prosecutor took the file in March 2025 and wrote a European arrest mandate with regard to Pascal Catry. The Fugitive Active Search Team of the Federal Police was commissioned to actively detect him. After an extensive image of the fugitive, the Fast team was able to locate the man in Torremolinos, in southern Spain. In close collaboration with both the Spanish Fast team and the Spanish Guardia Civil, Pascal Catry could be arrested in Torremolinos on 29 May in the evening, where he was hiding.
The fast team of the police is responsible for the active investigation of fugitives. This arrest shows that they achieve results not only in current, but also in older files (so -called ‘cold cases’), in good cooperation with both the judicial authorities in Belgium and police services abroad.
