The causes that led the drug traffickers to jail whereas the alleged culprits of the loss of life of the civil guards fled to Morocco | EUROtoday

The twist within the loss of life of the 2 civil guards hit by a drug boat in Barbate has left an investigation strangled by circumstances. The reverse of the primary model – the one which took Kiko 'the Goat' and 5 extra individuals – burst into the court docket in all its crudeness at midday on Tuesday. The Central Operational Unit of the Civil Guard (UCO) turned every thing round with an exhaustive report by which it disassociated the drug gang from The Goat of the murders. The video that one of many imprisoned younger individuals recorded that night time took them out of the equation.

The six males defended their innocence from the start and insisted earlier than the decide that she verify their cellphones as a result of, as they claimed on the time, they themselves had recorded the assault of the drug boat on the Civil Guard boat from their zodiac and, due to this fact, They couldn't be the authors. However, in line with their legal professionals, the decide didn’t authorize the viewing of the photographs.

They had been requested earlier than the detainees' statements had been taken however the response was adverse, point out protection sources consulted by this newspaper. The terminals had been seized. However, one of many males despatched the video to a member of the family and that motion was another step for investigators to rule out the participation of these imprisoned.

His spouse didn’t wish to obtain the cell telephones, the identical sources point out. Then, there was a change within the court docket. Now we now have been in a position to present the movies and fee an professional check from an professional, who has been in a position to give larger readability to the photographs, by which it’s seen that there have been three individuals on board the boat that hit the brokers and never six. However, given the doubts that arose all through the investigation – and with the six males in jail for the loss of life of the 2 civil guards – the Barbate court docket investigating the case requested an area court docket of Chiclana de la Frontera that would offer him with the pertinent details about the invention of one other related vessel on its coast at some point after the occasions.

After the occasion within the port of Barbate on the night time of February 29, the Judicial Police of the Civil Guard of Cádiz opened the investigation. Shortly, the UCO joined: the elite unit of the Armed Institute. The video in which you’ll be able to see how these arrested document the assault on the zodiac and the viewing of the digicam that one of many civil guards was sporting in his helmet have been decisive. In this sequence, it’s noticed that the drug boat that passes over the brokers has a single antenna, whereas the detainees' boat has two. The investigation then turned its gaze to the remainder of the drug boats that had been taking refuge from the storm within the Port of Barbate that night time.

Three males recognized

The brokers who command the proceedings have recognized three males – all of them of Moroccan nationality – because the individuals who had been on the boat that attacked the zodiac of the civil guards, the identical one which the Barbate court docket requested the Chiclana court docket about. The driver, named Karim, would have headed in the direction of his nation after the occasion together with two different individuals. Sources from the UCO instructed this newspaper that they’ve dependable proof about the true perpetrators of the homicide.

Once the murders occurred, confusion was most within the space. Two civil guards had simply died, one in all them bleeding to loss of life within the arms of his companion after reaching the dock. The different had fallen into the ocean after being run over by the propellers. The Goat He left the port and drove his boat in the direction of Sotogrande, the place he unloaded two of its occupants. The SIVE adopted the drug boat that was stopped on a seashore in La Línea. The arrests had been made in lower than 24 hours.

The Prosecutor's Office, for its half, introduced yesterday that it had no intention of requesting their launch as a result of, keep in mind, they proceed to be accused of very severe crimes, resembling smuggling and membership in a legal group, which carry penalties of as much as seven years in jail. The defenses of the six males, then again, will ask for his or her speedy launch from jail for what, with full certainty, would be the Cdiz Provincial Hearing whoever has to rule on the matter now.