Guardia Civil locates six-year-old girl abducted in Mallorca, father arrested in Kosovo

A six-year-old girl has been found safe in Kosovo and returned to her mother on Mallorca after an international police operation tracked down her father, who allegedly abducted her two weeks earlier. The case involved a premeditated disappearance, a decoy AirTag sent to Morocco, and a pan-European chase that ended with a European arrest warrant.

The planned disappearance

The mother reported the girl missing to the Guardia Civil after the father told her he had left Spain with the child. Investigators quickly established that the escape had been planned in advance. The father hid his daughter in the trunk of a car to board a ferry from Mallorca and passed through subsequent border controls without declaring her presence.

The father hid the minor in the trunk of a vehicle to board from Mallorca and subsequently cross border controls without declaring the child’s presence.

The false trail to Morocco

Agents detected movement from an AirTag hidden in the girl’s backpack, only to discover the tracking device had been mailed to Morocco. Investigators believe this was an attempt to divert the search toward a fake destination. The ruse broadened the inquiry across multiple jurisdictions and forced detectives to discard the initial digital lead.

The device had been sent by mail to Morocco in an apparent attempt to divert the investigation toward a false destination.

The pan-European manhunt

The Judicial Police of the Guardia Civil in the Balearics launched Operation ‘Ura’. They examined security-camera footage, visited properties linked to the father, traced his banking transactions and monitored maritime departures from the island. International police cooperation mechanisms were activated, and German police assisted in reconstructing the route through several EU countries. To evade capture, the father cancelled his bank accounts, deleted his social-media profiles and progressively altered his physical appearance, according to Guardia Civil sources. A Spanish judge issued a European Arrest Warrant and ordered pre-trial detention, intensifying the cross-border manhunt.

Recovery in Kosovo

The reconstructed itinerary showed the father had travelled through a series of European nations before reaching Kosovo. Kosovar authorities, acting on the European warrant, arrested him and located the girl. She was found in good health and was repatriated to Mallorca, reuniting with her mother on 27 June 2026, exactly two weeks after she disappeared.