Angela Martialay Madrid

Madrid

Updated Tuesday, February 13, 2024-01:34

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The

Anti-Drug Prosecutor's Office

has requested up to 36 and a half years in prison for one of the alleged drug traffickers who attacked a National Police patrol in Algeciras in 2020. In its qualification document, to which EL MUNDO has had access, dated February 6, the Public Ministry considers

Isaías Mora Santos

the author of a crime of attack in conjunction with two crimes of attempted murder, a crime against Public health and reception crime. He was the driver of the SUV that tried to run over the officers aboard the police vehicle.

The events took place in the early morning of September 5, 2020, when around 06:35 a.m. information was received at the Algeciras Police Station (Cádiz) that a cache of hashish was being produced in the aforementioned municipal area. .

The members of the National Police Corps moved to the place indicated in the notice, “receiving in real time information about the vehicle loaded with the substance; an all-terrain vehicle from the BMW brand X5 model. When the police patrol approached the area, the drug traffickers' car approached them "at high speed, accelerating at the same moment it saw the police vehicle

.

" «The agents, due to the characteristics of the road, which did not allow the passage of two vehicles, lay down on the right side of it, seeing how the vehicle, driven by the accused

Isaías Mora,

was heading directly and violently to hit them. in order not to be arrested with the drugs they were carrying in the vehicle and with knowledge of the homicidal capacity of the vehicle and the intention to end the lives of the agents," says the prosecutor.

The police tried to get out quickly to get to safety, although the drug traffickers' SUV "brutally impacted" the driver's side while the agent was getting out of the car, "his body being displaced a few meters from the police vehicle and impacting abruptly." against the road.

After the hit, the driver of the SUV fled and was finally arrested by the Police. At the time of the arrest, "the accused Isaías Mora Santos, driver, began to hit and struggle with the agents, until he was finally subdued."

Given the severity of the injuries, the first of the police officers continues, more than two years later, undergoing treatment and the extent of his consequences is not yet known. He has been recognized as having a 60 percent disability. The second of the police officers, who suffered various bruises such as trauma to the left shoulder and neck, also suffers from post-traumatic stress syndrome.

For those responsible for the attack, the Prosecutor's Office has requested high prison sentences for crimes of attempted murder in conjunction with the crime of attack against public health, illicit possession of weapons and the crime of reception. The Public Ministry urges the opening of an oral trial for six accused of participating in the criminal acts.

On this occasion, the Police officers had better luck than the two civil guards,

David Pérez and Miguel Ángel González

, who were murdered in Barbate (Cádiz) last Friday when they were attacked by a drug boat that was cheered by several spectators.