One of the civil guards who patrolled the zodiac raided by a drug boat in Barbate on Friday night had a personal video camera that recorded the moments before the crime. A tragic, dramatic and erasing sequence that immortalized the two previous attempts by Francisco Javier Martín Pérez, alias the Goat at the controls of the boat trying to hit the Civil Guard vessel.
Two attempts that the civil guard of the special group of underwater activities of the Civil Guard (GEAS) who patrolled the pneumatics managed to dodge, but not the third. In fact, in the moments before the fatal impact, the two Civil Guards of the Rapid Action Group (GAR) who had boarded the Zodiac fired several bursts of gunfire into the air with their submachine guns . Deterrent shots that did not prevent the side collision after the narcos’ boat rose from the bow until it passed over the vessel of the civil guards, with the known result, the killing of two of them and injuries of different consideration in the rest. Miguel Ángel Gómez died on the spot, and David Pérez still received for a few minutes the desperate attempts of his colleagues to keep him alive.
The images from this surveillance camera have been seen and analyzed by the judicial police of the command of Cadiz, in charge of the certificate, and by instructors of the proceedings, with the collaboration of the judicial team of the Barbate detachment . A recording described in the certificate that accompanied the eight arrested on Monday in the Barbate court, where the magistrate in charge of investigation number 1 sent six of the suspects to prison and released the two men, father and son, who they were, in a car in Sotogrande, waiting to pick up the three mechanics who had boarded the boat to do a repair.
The images, “terrible”, according to several sources informed of the investigation consulted by La Vanguardia, leave no room for doubt as to the identity of the six men who occupied the narco boat that Friday night. And they are a terrible testimony of the two previous attempts of the Cabra to intentionally invest the vessel of the civil guards. Some maneuvers by the drug trafficker in which he avoided the frontal impact or colliding with the engine area of ??the GEAS zodiac, because he knew the consequences that impact would have. “He knew perfectly well what he was doing and that if he hit his face or touched the engine they would all die”, indicated the same sources.
After being brought before the court on Monday, early in the morning, the eight suspects testified before the judge. And they all denied their participation in the tragedy, including Cabra, who assured that he was not at the helm of the vessel, which yesterday was saved in the premises of the Civil Guard in the port of Algeciras.
Meanwhile, in the port of Barbate, the Civil Guard yesterday requested from the Port Authority the images of all the security cameras in the area to start preparing a report in which they will try to identify the people who went to the port to encourage and defeat the narcos. It won’t be easy, but just yesterday the Superior Prosecutor of Andalusia, Ceuta and Melilla, Ana Tárrago, started the investigative proceedings. It remains to be seen what the crimes and repercussions translate into.
That Friday night, with the internal road of the fishing port leading to the mouth invaded by cars and motorbikes, the Civil Guard already asked the only security guard in the area to shield the exit and prevent the escape of vehicles . But it was impossible.
That is why now, based on the images from the security cameras, the judicial police in the town of Barbate are starting to compile a list of the neighbors who were there, who could be called to testify. Perhaps the judicial investigation ends in wet paper, because it will not be easy to specify the crime, several sources assure, but in the spirit of the companions of the two murders there is the need to take some action that proves that what they did that group of energumens requires a little more than a simple social rejection of the rest of Barbate’s residents.
