Andrés Machado Algeciras

Algeciras

Updated Saturday, February 10, 2024-14:51

  • Interior Barbate explodes against drug trafficking... and against Marlaska: "It is time for us to be heard"

  • Interior Two agents die after being run over by a drug boat in Barbate: "Is the Civil Guard on that shitty boat?"

The Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, announced this Saturday an increase in material and human resources for the fight against drug trafficking and has stressed that there will be "zero impunity" for those responsible for the death of two civil guards attacked this Friday by a drug boat in the port of

Barbate (Cádiz).

His promise was made before the Civil Guard Command of Cádiz, where the funeral chapel of the two agents has been installed. The minister has highlighted the work to stand up to "criminal and murderous" organizations and has stressed that there will be "zero impunity" with those responsible for the two deaths.

"These criminal and murderous organizations are being confronted. We are not going to allow one more murder of any of our men and women. We are not going to give up our efforts to implement all the necessary means, as we have already done these last five years, to guarantee security in the area. There will be no impunity," he said.

The President of the Government,

Pedro Sánchez,

has also "deeply" regretted the death and has transferred all his "recognition" to "the great work" of the Security Forces and Bodies against drug trafficking. "I deeply regret the death of the @guardiacivil agents in the act of duty on the coast of Barbate. I want to send a heartfelt hug to their families and colleagues. And my wishes for recovery for the injured agents," wrote the head of the Executive on social network X.

For his part, the president of the Popular Party,

Alberto Núñez Feijóo

, has regretted the death of the two civil guards in the port of Barbate. "I am very sorry for the death of two civil guards, who have been run over in Barbate," Feijóo said in a message on social networks.

The leader of the PP has asked for political responsibilities "at the highest level" and has attacked the minister by asking how it is possible that in the morning he was visiting the Campo de Gibraltar, saying that there is an "adequate and sufficient security operation" and that in the That night they murdered two civil guards.

He has demanded that Marlaska and Sánchez be up to the task "so that this barbarism does not occur again" and also legislative changes to declare the Campo de Gibraltar as a special security zone to protect agents, judges and prosecutors: "We cannot continue to see how the mafias operate with impunity in that area of ​​Spain," stressed Feijóo, who calls for political responsibilities not in the next few days, but in the next few hours.

"Lead or lead"

The president of Vox,

Santiago Abascal

, has defended responding with "lead or lead" to drug traffickers. "We said it and we will say it: To the drug trafficker, or lead... if we want to prevent them from dominating the country as happens with the narco-dictatorships of Latin America," Abascal stressed in his account on the social network "hug and recognition to the Civil Guard" and his condolences to the families of the two deceased agents.

The leader of Vox has also denounced the "abandonment" in which the Minister of the Interior has the Armed Institute. "Abandoned by Marlaska, who only cares about repressing protests against the Government. Murdered by drug traffickers who take advantage of the weakness of a government that is dedicated to amnesty criminals. Honored by all good Spaniards, who promise not to stop demand the means that our guards need to defend themselves and our borders," Abascal concluded.

The

Kings

have been "tremendously saddened" by the tragedy in Barbate. "Tremendously saddened by the death of two civil guards in the act of duty in Barbate. Our most sincere condolences and affection for their families and colleagues in these difficult times, and our wish for a speedy recovery for the injured," they say in a post on social network X.

"Your life of exemplary service to Spain will always honor your memory," adds the post issued through the official account of the Casa del Rey.

The president of the Junta of Andalusia,

Juanma Moreno

, has condemned the "despicable crime", while the general secretary of the PSOE of Andalusia,

Juan Espadas

, has expressed his "deep pain".

The president of the Community of Madrid, Iknow

Díaz Ayuso

, said this Saturday that "the vast majority of Spaniards deeply feel" death in a "squalid and inhumane" way.