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On the afternoon of February 6, 2018,

decided to go to the hospital in La Línea de la Concepción (Cádiz) to forcibly take his uncle, Samuel Crespo, a well-known local drug trafficker who had suffered a motorcycle accident after skipping a control police

Crespo, knowing that he had three arrest warrants and admission to prison weighing on him because during a prison leave he had not returned to prison, and knowing that he still had more than two years of sentence to serve, he gave the he escaped and the agents began to chase him.

The drug trafficker fell from the motorcycle during the pursuit, was injured in the leg and was arrested.

Before taking him to the police station, a couple of national police officers took him to the hospital to have his wounds treated. And his people came to his rescue there. Because Samuel Crespo was not just any drug dealer: he belongs to the clan of 'Los Casñas', the nickname by which

and

, considered by the police forces to be the largest hashish traffickers in the Strait of Gibraltar.

Samuel Crespo's nephew did not act alone.

Eduardo Morente was accompanied by a group of about 11 people.

Most covered their faces with hoods.

At around 3:39 pm that day, Eduardo suddenly and violently burst into the hospital ward where a nurse and an auxiliary were treating his uncle.

Eduardo punched one of the two officers who were guarding the detainee in the eye.

The comrade also received several blows from other hooded men.

Image by Samuel Crespo.THE WORLD

The assailants immobilized the policemen.

Later, between five people they took away Samuel Crespo, who managed to remain a fugitive from justice for another three and a half months.

He was arrested on May 27, 2018 in a rural hotel in Jimena de la Frontera (Cádiz).

He was accompanied by another member of

clan

,

, nicknamed

, and powerful Italian gangsters from the

Calabrian

.

Sentence

That episode at the La Línea hospital has just become known. On October 28, 2021, the Seventh Section of the Provincial Court of Cádiz sentenced Eduardo Morente for that assault to free his uncle. In the sentence, to which EL MUNDO has had access, the court imposes a sentence of two years and three months in prison on the nephew for the crime of violent release of a detainee in media contest with a crime of attack on the agents of the authority, and for two minor offenses of injury.

However, the Hearing acquits the other four defendants of all charges and admits that no one else has been identified from the group "of approximately 12 people" that assaulted the hospital.

During the trial, Morente was the only one of the five defendants who admitted part of the facts, but denied that the assailants had coordinated after learning of the arrest of his uncle and that he had beaten one of the two policemen.

The now condemned man explained to the court that he went to the hospital room where his uncle was found after hearing him complain.

He indicated that he does not know who finally took Samuel Crespo, who disappeared after getting into a vehicle that was waiting for him on the street.

During the trial, the internal security videos of the hospital were viewed.

Eduardo Morente is recognized in them, says the sentence.

Regarding the other four defendants who sat on the bench, the ruling applies

(in case of doubt, act in favor of the defendant) given the lack of solid incriminating evidence against them.

Crespo, in semi-freedom

The Prosecutor's Office requested 13 years in prison for the five accused.

Finally, the Seventh Section of the Provincial Court of Cádiz only sentenced Morente.

The court imposed on the rescued drug's nephew a jail sentence of two years and three months in prison and a fine of 3,600 euros for the assault on the police officers.

Anyway, Samuel Crespo has been in semi-freedom for a year now.

On November 25, 2020, the prison surveillance judge

granted him the third degree in response to an appeal presented by his defense and despite having the opposition of the Prosecutor's Office.

Since then, his process of social reintegration continues on the street.

He works - or should work - in a metalwork company in an industrial estate on the outskirts of La Línea.

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