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A Civil Guard patrol boat navigates the mouth of the Guadalquivir River in an archive image.
A Civil Guard patrol boat navigates the mouth of the Guadalquivir River in an archive picture.JUAN CARLOS TORO

A 47-year-old man died this Wednesday afternoon in Cádiz after the semi-rigid boat through which he was touring collided with a Civil Guard boat on the mouth of the Guadalquivir River. Three different people who find themselves detained had been touring with him. The 4 occupants had been carrying gas bottles, an exercise referred to as cap which is normally used to provide gasoline to the narcolanchas of cannabis ready on the excessive seas to have the ability to enter upriver and unload the medication from Morocco.

The occasion occurred round 12:00, as sources from the Civil Guard confirmed to EL PAÍS. The patrol boat Agueda River, of the Maritime Service of the Civil Guard of Cádiz, noticed a 12-meter-long semi-rigid boat that was hoisted on the mouth of the river. The brokers piloting the police boat, who had been unhurt, however are “affected by what happened,” approached the boat to examine if it was a cannabis drug boat. At that second, the 4 occupants who had been resting began the boat to flee, however, for unknown causes, they collided with the entrance of the civil guard ship, in response to the Armed Institute's account.

A boat surrounded by flasks to transport gasoline, intercepted by the National Police of Sanlúcar de Barrameda (Cádiz).

The Anti-Drug Prosecutor's Office and the safety forces demand authorized reforms to behave in opposition to these gang collaborators who transfer 1000’s of liters of gasoline for traffickers

After the accident, the brokers arrested three of the occupants, however the accidents of the fourth compelled him to be transferred to the Sanlúcar hospital. From there, the person was transferred to the Puerta del Mar hospital in Cádiz, the place he died after 6:00 p.m. because of the accidents suffered within the crash. The man was 47 years previous and had a police report for smuggling, prison group and drug trafficking. At least one different of the detainees additionally had a police report, as confirmed by the identical sources.

At the time of the occasion, the RIB was loaded with an unspecified variety of gas drums or flasks. The criminal activity of cap to cannabis drug traffickers is a rising exercise lately. This progress has occurred after the police siege in opposition to drug trafficking has compelled them to discover new routes and prolong their stays at sea, ready for the most effective time to introduce medication to the coast. Current Spanish laws don’t take into account the storage or transportation of huge portions of gasoline as against the law, which is why the Anti-Drug Prosecutor's Office has already demanded a authorized reform to ban these harmful actions of gasoline.

The siege on medication within the Strait has additionally had the consequence that traffickers have opted for brand spanking new routes or recovered others, as is the case of the Guadalquivir. Civil guard associations have been warning for months about this vital improve in exercise within the river that flows into Sanlúcar de Barrameda, along with denouncing that they barely have the means to cease this vital improve. Last December, in simply someday, the patrol detected as much as 4 drug boats able to be loaded with gasoline, with out having the ability to do virtually something to stop their exercise.

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