- La Palmilla: An old man dies in Malaga hit by a lost bullet from a shooting between clans
- Grenada.Cuts of light for the cultivation of marijuana: the real power triples the official one
Andalusian coast, gateway of the drug to Europe. A criminal ecosystem in which organized groups coexist marked by their transnational character, gangster violence and a certain glamorous glamor watered with long nights of partying in the most exclusive nightclubs; next to narcos forged in the neighborhood culture, with a marked territorial character and that turn the streets into aisles of their particular drug supermarket. A crime rooted in the heart of the cities, which is supported as that recurring toothache, but that is the same or more destructive to a society than the big traffickers.
The neighborhood of La Palmilla de Málaga has been the last stage where the strength of these family clans has been felt. A power propped up in fear that paralyzes neighbors and political leaders and that days ago claimed an innocent life. Mateo, a 74-year-old retiree, died at his home when he was shot through a lost bullet from the last shooting between Los Puercos and Los Charros. An episode that is not new in Andalusia. It happened the same in 2008 in this same neighborhood. And in May 2016, a seven-year-old girl lost her life in similar circumstances during a dispute between Los Perla and Los Mariano in the Sevillian neighborhood of Tres Mil Viviendas.
"Beige shoe, son of a bitch", you could read years ago at the door of a house in La Palmilla. It was the particular message of love of the clans to Antonio - fictitious name -, an agent who for almost a decade hit them hard from the Small Traffic Group of the Provincial Police of Malaga and who could only be identified by the color of their footwear. Baptized as mascaritas - because they always acted with balaclavas -, it was rare the week that members of this unit did not burst a couple of drug outlets. Houses whose accesses demolished with a battering ram in which a declaration of intentions could be read: "Avon knocks on your door". Floors that ended up becoming authentic bunkers protected by dogs of prey and entrance bars that electrified with a battery.
Knowing the idiosyncrasy of these criminal groups, he explains that they have traditionally been built through a family structure that "is their main strength to perpetuate themselves in time." Each member who falls into combat is quickly replaced by another latent element, "which can be a son, a nephew or a cousin," and who has been learning the business from a young age. Organizations that are based on emotional and emotional ties. How a metal mesh. Interlaced.
The main activity of these clans, which a police command clearly defines as "indigenous organized crime," has traditionally been drug retailing. A business based in the big cities that, paradoxically, is nourished in part by everyone's money: "We must bear in mind that a high percentage of drug addicts end up developing chronic diseases, for which the Administration grants them a payment or help that finally they use to buy the doses, "said the sources consulted, who lament the absence of more thorough controls to limit this flow.
To get an idea of the great profits reported by the retail sale of narcotic drugs, you just have to pay attention to a fact that the agent said: "On a normal day, for a few hours, they took out at least 600 euros, without moving from House"
The scrambled-mix of low-quality cocaine and heroin-smoked, "fortunately" was replacing the consumption of injected heroin , although a rebound of this substance is being perceived that translates into an increase in thefts with force in vehicles, the robberies at the point of a knife or the pulls. However, the great current business niche is the cultivation and sale of marijuana. "It is very economically profitable and less punishable" than other drugs, says a researcher, who throws the following question to emphasize the primacy of this substance: "When you go down the street and you get smoke that is not tobacco, does it smell to hashish or mary? "
The Almanjáyar neighborhood, in the Northern Zone of Granada, knows its spread well. Territory of Los Mocos, a clan linked to crimes as serious as kidnappings and drug trafficking, is considered one of the main marijuana production points in the country and where Endesa has estimated more than 1,000 homes that have illegal hooks to the light.
The Cake operation, developed last November, dealt a serious blow to this organization with the arrest of almost a fortnight, although they continue to impose fear in the Nasrid city and their relationship with a series of shootings occurred in the past.
But the range of these family networks expands and marijuana trafficking has also germinated in municipalities of the province of Granada, leaving incredible images such as the one that starred in a narco that reproduced the Hacienda Napoles , the famous estate of Pablo Escobar, in Santa Faith.
Police sources consulted by THE WORLD, however, noted that the methods of these clans have been refined as they discovered the loopholes of a welfare system with very improved control mechanisms. The public coffers have gone in another way of financing with which to compensate the losses caused by the police pressure. The most famous case that highlights this circumstance revolved around the Federation of Romanian Associations of Andalusia (FARA), to which some members of Los Charros were linked, and came to trial for the appropriation of more than one million euros from grants from the Board.
There are more cases. During an investigation by the National Police for drug trafficking and money laundering against Los Romualdo, another important clan of La Palmilla, it was found that most members of the clan received large public support from the administrations while, for example, one of them He was riding in a high-end SUV.
The VPOs are also the object of desire of these clans, even being done with whole blocks of floors. For them, the aforementioned sources report, "they sign private sales contracts with the real winners of the house, such as those found in different operations." And what happens if the Board or the City Council on duty grant the property to another family? "They are already in charge of finally giving up."
Some investigators began asking the judges for the boarded up of public homes that were used as drug sales points, while for others "the Board prohibited us from cutting off water and electricity."
But real estate investments do not stop there. The National Police have detected that these clans want to take advantage of the weaknesses of the Criminal Code and expand business with the creation of housing 'housing squatting.
The sources consulted conclude that it is necessary to change the approach and attack these clans "as they are, native organized crime." Away from the image that has been installed in the collective ideology of what a criminal group is, but with the same expeditious and bloody methods.
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