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Updated Saturday, February 10, 2024-01:11

  • Barbate Two civil guards die after being hit by a drug boat

The

anti-drug prosecutor of Cádiz, Ana Villagómez,

has denounced that the drug boats

"run freely"

in the docks of the province of Cádiz and has denounced the

lack of resources

after the death of two civil guards and two other agents who were injured in the attack. being

hit

by one of these boats in the port of Barbate.

As he explained, the members of the State Security Forces and Corps

"risk their lives every day in this province."

"It is a very alarming situation (...) This

is overflowing.

The province is full of drug boats that are used not only for drug trafficking, but also for immigrant trafficking," she denounced.

The prosecutor recalled that the drug gangs "are free to roam" and has warned that she hopes that this Saturday they will not go to the funeral of the civil guards in

Barbate

to pay their condolences "when later they do not provide the necessary means," she said without a doubt. summon the

Ministry of the Interior.

"And I say it that hard because that's how hard it is," she said in statements to

Cadena Ser,

reported by Europa Press.

In this way, the prosecutor has assured that

she does not know "what is needed for people to be aware that this is very serious."

"There are more and more drug traffickers. They feel unpunished, they think that nothing is going to happen to them because in fact nothing is happening to them," she stated.

"When the trial comes, they are sentenced to three years,

but until the trial comes they remain free and continue with more drug trafficking," she explained.

At this point, Villagómez has denounced that

the Civil Guard patrol boats "are old

or have no power" compared to the drug boats that navigate the waters of the province of Cádiz.

"They have no means, boats or personnel

to deal with this and when they do, they risk their lives," he said, referring to the work of the Civil Guard.

In this regard, the prosecutor has assured that "it gives the impression" that the Barbate drug gang is going after the agents in an action that, in her words, she has described as

"effectively a murder."

"The feeling is one of impunity, that it is a fight between David and Goliath," Villagómez lamented, recalling that he

has been asking for years to penalize the possession of fuel on the high seas.

"There is no crime that we can charge," he said. "In the end it is a feeling of impunity and the same people who have been detained are again investigated because they continue with the same criminal activity," he explained.