The Guardia Civil at the Puerto de Motril arrested a man for being in possession of an illegal weapon.
It was during a routine embarking search on vehicles waiting to board the Volcán de Tejada ferry that the police found the homemade firearm inside a luxury car with a French number plate.
The weapon was a .22-calibre barrel coupled to a homemade breach block… and little else. Apparently the barrel still had a serial number on it, which allowed the Guardia Civil to discover that it been stolen in Germany.
Accordingly, the police want to put it through a ballistics check to see if it has been used in any criminal shooting incidents.
The 23-year-old man arrested in possession of the weapon is from Morocco but lives in France.
