Irishman injured in Marbella incident is questioned in hospital by judge and told bail set at €10,000

An Irishman questioned over his involvement in a Costa del Sol beach club stabbing and shooting has been told that his bail has been set at €10,000, once he leaves hospital.

A judge went to Marbella’s Costa del Sol Hospital on Saturday to question the 32-year-old after he was arrested earlier this week. The man spent nearly three days in intensive care with gunshot wounds to his chest following the incident at the holiday resort’s Opium Beach Club.

One man was stabbed and four people were shot in the incident earlier this week.

Two people including the suspected gunman, a 40-year-old Dutch national, have already been remanded in custody after a row in a VIP area of the beach club in the early hours of Monday morning.

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A court official confirmed on Saturday afternoon after the private court hearing at the hospital that the bail had been set at €10,000.

“Marbella’s Court of Instruction Number One has approved the remand in prison of the third man detained in relation to the incidents which occurred at Opium Beach Club,” they said.

“The third detainee is under investigation for a crime of aggravated wounding. If he does pay the bail bond, he must comply with certain conditions such as surrendering his passport and signing on regularly at court as well as a ban on leaving the country.

“The court appearance took place in hospital where the detainee remains a patient because of the injuries he suffered. The detainee answered questions put to him by the judge.”

Respected Malaga paper Sur reported the two groups involved in the confrontation in the beach club, where tables cost up to €5,000, were Dutch on one side and “mostly British” on the other.

It also reported the suspected gunman’s friend who appeared in court on Wednesday had told a judge the row that culminated in the stabbing and shooting started when the knifeman served himself a drink from a bottle on their table without permission.

Separately, the man suspected of shooting four revellers in the incident declined to answer any questions from the judge during his behind-closed-doors court appearance.