[HIGHLIGHTS] Manuel Estrella, judge: "The National Court should be less restrictive in taking on drug trafficking cases"

Manuel Estrella has spent almost his entire judicial career in the province of Cádiz. He points to the need to reform the peripheral structure.

of Justice to prevent the newly incorporated judges from taking over on an interim basis. The problem of drug trafficking in the countryside of Gibraltar is endemic, he says. Young people with no prospect of having a decent job end up finding in drug trafficking a way to obtain an easy and high economic profit, says Estrella. The nineteenth-century system that we have established in Spain has a completely archaic territorial organization, he adds.