Not a single moment yesterday Monday did it stop raining on Barbate. A very thin water that sank the bones of the dozen civil guards who, with a handful of neighbors and journalists, spent the day until it got dark in front of the courts in the city of Cádiz waiting for news about the eight arrested for the death of two civil guards, Friday night at the mouth of the port. After taking a statement from all eight, the judge sent six of them to prison accused, all, of two crimes of murder, four attempts, serious injuries, smuggling and resistance and attempt against the authority.
Two more, who on that cursed Friday did not go to the narco boat but picked up three of its crew on the beaches of Sotogrande, were released on the charge of covering up murder.
This Monday the residents of Barbate called the narcos again. But they were no longer panteixos or screams or olés like those heard on Friday night at the mouth of the port, to the shame of many. In front of the courts, both when the detainees arrived and hours later when they were taken to prison, the citizens called them “murderers” and “criminals”.
The two suspects who left the court on foot through the main door explained what their relatives had already explained minutes earlier in a nearby cafe. “We have not done anything and the others who are inside are not the killers either. We have nothing to do with what happened in Barbate. We are innocent. Those who killed the civil guards are free. They arrested us because we were in a place where there was a raid”.
Explanations that did not convince either the magistrate or the prosecutor, who requested prison for everyone, a request shared by the lawyer Pablo Martín Bajarado, represented as the prosecution on behalf of the Unified Association of the Civil Guard (AUGC ).
Since they were arrested on Saturday, in two rounds, the judicial police of the command of Cadiz wrote a certificate with evidence of the participation of the eight arrested in the port tragedy and the presence of six of them in the narco-launch that happened above the zodiac of the special group of underwater activities of the Civil Guard (GEAS) in which there were six civil guards.
The investigators place Francisco Javier Martín Pérez, 45 years old, a resident of the Junquillos neighborhood in La Línea de la Concepción and known as the Goat, in command of the rubber band. A guy who bragged about his bad name for “scaring people” and who at the age of 21 was already arrested for drug trafficking. He started with the smuggling of tobacco with Gibraltar, but then joined the hashish drug traffickers until he ended up patrolling large boats. One more character among the many with his profile in Camp de Gibraltar and who during the pandemic led a revolt in La Línea by stoning a bus that was transporting a group of 28 grandparents to the municipality who had been evicted from a geriatric home in Alcalá del Valle due to a coronavirus outbreak. An unscrupulous guy with three pending trials, including one for gender violence.
The rest of the detainees who slept in prison last night were in the narcolancha. A boat that arrived at the port three days before the tragedy looking for shelter from the storm. A command thought that the narcos would be frightened by the presence of the police zodiac and that they would flee and enter an unnavigable sea due to the waves and zero visibility. But this is the behavior of criminals from another era, when bad guys respected the rules.
