October 17, 2005
An Israeli visiting Spain has reportedly helped authorities to get closer to tracking down Nazi war criminal Aribert Heim, who has been living in hiding for years. Spanish police expect the imminent arrest of Heim, whose notorious medical experiments on concentration camp inmates earned him the nickname “Dr. Death”. The Israeli citizen spotted the 91-year-old fugitive on the island of Ibiza, the newspaper "Ha’aretz" reported on Sunday. Heim, considered one of the two most-wanted Nazi war criminals still alive and at large, is believed to be living in the Costa Brava area. However, police in Spain are more cautious, saying that they had not found Heim during recent searches. A police spokesman in the provincial capital Girona said: “We haven’t detained anyone with that name. All we know is that he may have been in the area of Palafrugell recently.”
