A patrol boat of the Maritime Service of the Río Belelle Civil Guard was hit this Thursday by a drug boat during a chase, with no injuries reported. As confirmed by sources from the Armed Institute to the Europa Press agency, the patrol boat was serving on Thursday morning in waters near Estepona (Málaga), when they detected several drug boats stranded in Manilva due to the storm.
During the chase, one of them attacked the Civil Guard boat on the starboard alert, without serious consequences for the crew. After the event, the Unified Association of Civil Guards (AUGC) has demanded from the Government through its social networks “more patrols and more personnel”, as well as the implementation of the Special Singularity Zone. The incident occurs a month after the attack that left two agents dead in the Cadiz town of Barbate.
In this context, it is worth remembering that the mayor of Manilva (Málaga), José Manuel Fernández, has “urgently” requested the Government Subdelegation in Málaga for “immediate actions to end the presence of boats off the” Manilva” coastline, ” used for drug trafficking”, emphasizing that this fact “seriously damages the image of our municipality, in addition to the danger of a possible landing.
For his part, the counselor of the Interior Presidency, Social Dialogue and Administrative Simplification of the Junta de Andalucía, has maintained this Thursday that the Government of the Nation and, more specifically, the Ministry of the Interior, is showing itself to be “incompetent and incapable of face a serious problem” such as that of drug trafficking that “no longer extends only to the province of Cádiz” as far as Andalusia is concerned, since “it affects areas of the Guadalquivir River, Seville and in provinces such as Almería, where they take refuge the narco-boats.”
