“Murderers.” “Bastards”. “Criminals.” A few residents of Barbate returned this Monday to shout at the drug traffickers. But this time they were not gasps of joy, nor cheers, nor those embarrassing “olés” that were heard on Friday night at the mouth of the port. At the doors of the courts of the town of Cadiz, a few residents confronted the eight arrested over the weekend, accused of the death of two civil guards who were run over in the port. The eight were getting off, handcuffed, from the Civil Guard van that took them directly from the cells of the Algeciras command. Stunned, the vast majority lowered their gaze, but a few held their heads high defiantly.
The first to get out of the two Civil Guard vans was Francisco Javier M. P., a resident of La Línea de la Concepción who is known as El Cabra. A guy with numerous records related to drug trafficking and who had three pending trials, one of them for domestic violence. One more character among the many who have the same profile in Campo de Gibraltar and who during the pandemic led a revolt in La Línea when several neighbors stoned a bus that was trying to transport a group of 28 grandparents who had died to a residence in the municipality. They were evicted from a nursing home in Alcalá del Valle where there had been a coronavirus outbreak. An “unscrupulous” guy who was arrested fleeing across the countryside in the Sierra de Carboneras after hours before he had left three of the occupants of the drug boat that he was piloting as a skipper on the ground in Sotogrande on Friday night in Barbate. .
El Cabra rose through the ranks of the different occupations offered by drug trafficking in the area. He started as a leader, monitoring enclaves of interest to criminal organizations, and later continued helping to unload bales on the coast. He soon embarked on a boat, first as co-pilot, until he ended up as skipper of the four-engine outboard boat that he was piloting on Friday night at the mouth of the port of Barbate. A guy who had no problem first hesitating at the Civil Guard zodiac, to end up going over it in a suicidal maneuver that cost the lives of two civil guards, fired this weekend in ceremonies in Pamplona and Cádiz.
In February of last year, El Cabra was arrested with 40 kilos of hashish, but the record goes back twenty years with accusations of resistance to authority, public disorder, disobedience and money laundering.
