The Cathedral of Cádiz hosts this Sunday at 10:00 a.m. a funeral mass in memory of the two Civil Guard agents who died in Barbate (Cádiz) last Friday night when they were run over by a drug boat while participating in an operation against drug trafficking. drugs in the port of said municipality, acts for which there are eight detainees.
One of the deceased agents, Miguel Ángel G.G., was a native of the Cadiz municipality of San Fernando and belonged to the Group of Underwater Activities Specialists (GEAS). He was 39 years old, had a partner and a daughter. The second dead agent, David P.C., belonged to the Rapid Action Group (GAR), was 43 years old, was born in Barcelona and had a wife and two children.
The coffin of civil guard David Pérez has been escorted to Pamplona by colleagues from his unit, the Rapid Action Group, and the Traffic Group.
Along the way, a large number of members of the Corps greeted the procession to say their last goodbye, according to the Civil Guard on the X social network.
At ten in the morning, the funeral chapel is scheduled to open at the Civil Guard Headquarters in Pamplona to say goodbye to David Pérez, 43 years old, born in Barcelona, ??who lived in Sarriguren, in the Navarrese municipality of Valle de Egüés. , where his family is from.
Subsequently, at 1:00 p.m. a funeral mass will be celebrated in the Pamplona cathedral.
The Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, will travel to the Navarrese capital to attend the funeral chapel.
For these events, five people were first arrested, three of them crew members of the boat and the remaining two alleged henchmen who were going to pick them up in a vehicle in Sotogrande after the boat had run aground on the beach of La Alcaidesa, in La Línea de la Conception.
According to the Civil Guard, the first three crew members of the aforementioned drug boat arrested are 21, 24 and 28 years old. All of them are Spanish, with a history of drug trafficking, attacks on an authority agent, injuries, crimes against property and money laundering; now facing two alleged crimes of homicide and serious injuries to law enforcement agents.
The other two arrested from the first batch of detainees, who were going to pick up the crew of the boat, are 34 and 54 years old and are also Spanish, with a history of drug trafficking and smuggling, facing alleged cover-up crimes due to these new facts. and serious resistance to authority.
All of them were admitted to the cells of the Civil Guard of Algeciras, with plans to be transferred to the Cádiz Command, while the proceedings are being instructed by the mixed Court number one of Barbate.
Subsequently, the authorities have reported the arrest of three other crew members of the boat, who fled on foot through the countryside after having run aground, bringing the total number of detainees to eight.
Furthermore, as a result of the attack by the drug boat on the boat in which the agents were sailing, two other civil guards have been injured, one seriously and the other slightly. The first of them is hospitalized, but his life is not in danger.
While videos have circulated on social networks with images of people cheering the drug traffickers from the dock of the port of Barbate, so that they would charge against the Civil Guard boats, this past Saturday the town was the scene of a rally with the participation of several hundred people, to condemn the events, honor the memory of the deceased agents and demand from the institutions more means to fight drug trafficking.