An Australian YouTuber filmed the harrowing moment he was forced to flee after the military raided a drug house in Colombia he visited for his channel.
Anthony Lees, better known as Spanian, was invited by drug dealers to visit the den in Medellin, a city known in the 1990s as “the murder capital of the world.”
The 37-year-old Spaniard visits dangerous neighborhoods in Australia and beyond and shares his adventures with his 775,000 subscribers.
Footage from his last visit shows him standing in a dilapidated apartment, with “blocks of drugs”, weapons and ammunition spread out on a bed.
“So this is pretty much what their business looks like,” he said.
“Tusi is the product we deal in,” said one of the alleged drug dealers, referring to a new form of ketamine also known as “pink cocaine.”
“In order to do this, we have lookouts all over the streets,” said a man with a bleary face.
The tension visibly increased as the room fell silent as an unexpected visitor appeared outside the apartment.
Drugs and weapons are seen in an abandoned, dilapidated apartment in the notorious city of Medellin, Colombia, in a video shot by Australian YouTube star Spaniard
Spaniard, 37, visits dangerous neighbourhoods in Australia and overseas and shares his adventures with his 775,000 subscribers
“Why are they whispering? I’m getting paranoid,” Spanian said.
The fixer who had arranged the tour of the drug house was then seen putting a finger to his lips, which is internationally synonymous with “keep quiet.”
Then a voice spoke the word no one would ever want to hear in a drug den.
‘Agent.’
Several people jumped over a back wall, followed by Spaniard.
He ran across sheets of fiberboard roofing before escaping down a flight of stairs and past bricks of drugs dropped by dealers along the way.
He walked into an alley covered in graffiti and was visibly shocked.
“‘Cause that’s crazy, I’m going to turn the camera off, okay. This is not a f****** joke,” he said.
Spanian turned off the camera before resuming the video when he was safe and well away from danger.
“When it wasn’t clear what was happening, while we were in the middle of it all, with blocks of drugs and weapons on the bed, the army came,” he said.
‘I saw a soldier. I saw his head. He looked at me.
“I went back inside and the boys started running. They were taking bricks with drugs and dropping them everywhere, on the roofs.”
Spaniard claims he ‘ran for his life’ when he was caught up in a police operation during a shoot at a drug den in the notorious Colombian city of Medellin.
Suspected drug dealers in Medellin, Colombia, are seen standing next to huge blocks of drugs they have just packed for sale
Spanian said he was running for his life and was afraid of what would happen to him if he was caught by the military.
“I don’t know and I don’t want to know. But, it’s probably the end of Spanish, you know what I mean?” he said.
‘I was robbed in a drug house in Colombia.’
Spanian had previously spoken to the drug dealers, who had explained to him how they weighed the contraband and what they packaged it with.
They said they were dealing cocaine and marijuana and offered Spanian a sip of tusi when he asked what it was.
“No, I’m fine,” he replied, laughing nervously.
“It’s a mix of different kinds of pills to make you happy,” his guide told him.
“It’s a very addictive, very bad drug, (used by) a lot of young people. It’s supposed to be the expensive drug used by rich people.
‘(But) now the recipe is spread everywhere, so every (drug dealer) makes his own recipe.’
