“It has been a strong blow. We have lost two of our own. It has caused us a lot of pain”
BARCELONA, 22 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The general director of the Civil Guard, Leonardo Marcos, has assured that he has not detected “any error to which he can link the events in Barbate (Cádiz)”, in reference to the two civil guards who died after being run over by a drug boat on Friday, the 9th. February in the port of the Cadiz city.
In an interview this Thursday in ‘La Vanguardia’ reported by Europa Press, he maintained that “the only people responsible for the death of the two civil guards, David and Miguel Ángel, are the drug traffickers who were on the boat” who, according to indications, had the clear will to kill.
Regarding the operation, he reported that the order to enter the port was given by the chain of command as it was “the only way to enter” the enclave, although the criminal reaction of the alleged drug traffickers was not foreseen.
Regarding the two dead agents, he stressed that the event has been a great blow to the body: “It has been a strong blow. We have lost two of our people. It has caused us a lot of pain. I am not speaking from hearsay, I have experienced it firsthand. talk to the colleagues of the murdered agents”.
Likewise, he highlighted the “absolute strength” of the Civil Guard and its commitment and determination to combat drug trafficking, in his opinion, a complex fight that affects the entire society.
The judge in charge of the case confirmed that the evidence collected from the port’s security cameras, eyewitnesses and the red paint found on the boat point to the six detainees as the alleged perpetrators of the attack on the agents.
In this way, on Monday, February 12, the Investigative Court 1 of Barbate ordered, at the request of the Prosecutor’s Office and the private prosecution carried out by the Unified Association of Civil Guards (AUGC), the entry into provisional prison, communicated and without bail for the six crew members of the drug boat.
The detainees are being investigated for two crimes of murder, four crimes of attempted murder, six crimes of aggravated attack, one crime of smuggling and one crime of serious resistance to a law enforcement agent.
