Raúl Piña Madrid

Madrid

Updated Tuesday, February 13, 2024-14:55

  • Parlament The PSC and the independence movement prevent an institutional declaration of support for the two civil guards murdered in Barbate

  • Interior The action against drug trafficking collapsed in Cádiz when Marlaska dissolved the elite unit of the Civil Guard

Closing of lines. In the middle of the crisis due to the murder of two civil guards in

Barbate

at the hands of drug traffickers - their drug boat ran over the rubber that the agents were using, he went over it -,

La Moncloa

endorses and shields Fernando Grande-Marlaska, Minister of the Interior, in the focus on the management and operational decisions carried out in this area. In the presidential complex they do not give the slightest hint that the head of the Interior can or should resign. Quite the opposite. "We are facing a challenge and if there is someone perfectly qualified to face this challenge, it is Marlaska."

The minister himself already anticipated it, who did not contemplate his departure from the Government. The cape now arrives from La Moncloa, to remove doubts, despite the fact that the requests for resignation come from the opposition parties and from associations of civil guards, for not providing "more resources and more personnel" to agents who "play life" against drug trafficking.

"The Minister of the Interior has proven a track record and work beyond any discussion," was the defense made by Pilar Alegría, spokesperson for the Executive, after the meeting of the Council of Ministers. Although he has been pilloried on more than one occasion for the decisions made or the management, Pedro Sánchez has always supported Marlaska. Every time there has been a government crisis or the formation of a new cabinet, his name was among those that could jump because he was "burned out", but the President of the Government has made clear his confidence in him.

A "great Minister of the Interior", "has all my confidence", Sánchez has even said of his minister, who has shown enormous wear and tear due to crises such as that of Barbate or the tragedy of the Melilla fence that occurred on June 24, 2022. Of all, at least for now, it emerges unscathed.

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The figures given by the Executive

The Government not only defends Marlaska, but also takes advantage, despite the crisis unleashed and criticism for the lack of means and resources, to take advantage of the management carried out against drug trafficking in the Campo de Gibraltar. Alegría wanted to emphasize that the Sánchez Government approved "for the first time a specific security plan in Campo de Gibraltar, which did not exist, to provide a comprehensive solution."

And in the face of criticism and reproaches for the lack of means and resources, La Moncloa draws figures: that today the Police and Civil Guard staff has 156,000 agents, and they contrast this with the cut of 13,000 agents undertaken by the Executive. by Mariano Rajoy. And they give figures about the Campo de Gibraltar to try to support its management, despite the fact that the civil guards themselves reproach the shortage of material or the fact that they are not suitable for use.

The Government objects that 25,000 agents have been assigned to security in Campo de Gibraltar, when with the PP the number was 22,500. That a total of 82.1 million have been invested in human resources and material resources between August 1, 2018 and December 31, 2023.; 1,700 tons of drugs have been seized; more than 22,000 operations have occurred; seized 2,000 firearms, 97 million euros....

Faced with the data, for example, the anti-drug prosecutor of Cádiz,

Ana Villagómez

, assures that drug boats "run freely" in the docks of the province of

Cádiz

. She even went so far as to ask the authorities "not to go to the funeral to offer condolences when they later do not provide the necessary means."