With the memory of the murder of two civil guards in Barbate revived by recent developments in the case, an operation of the Maritime Service of the armed institute has been skipped this Saturday with six drug boats caught in races and collisions on the coasts of Huelva.
Guards and drug traffickers have run at full speed into the sea, as can be seen in the video. The chase began when two of the narco-boats were sighted on the coast, semi-rigid boats that, like most of those seized, had four engines. When they were detected, the drug boats fled quickly. During the chase, the Civil Guard sighted another four of these boats in the open sea.
From there, the usual sequence has occurred: boats with powerful outboard engines and crews lined up as if on horses. jumping over the waves. As in so many other chases, when they have found themselves lost, the crew members They have been releasing bundles of cargo into the water. Sources close to the operation say that on this occasion the drug traffickers they have not resisted with attacks to the guards’ boat, although they have tried, in vain, crossings and other distraction and delay measures to protect the leak of the main boats.
11 tons
As a result of the operation, seven pilots and crew members have been arrested, all of them from the same criminal organization, dedicated to the transportation of cannabis between the Moroccan and Spanish coasts. Have been 293 bales of hashish seized. The seized drugs weighed a total of 11.4 tons. This is one of the most notable maritime attacks on drug trafficking in Andalusia so far this year.
The police pressure of maritime patrols of the Civil Guard in the area of the Strait causes the drug traffickers to move towards the east, looking for anchorages in Malaga, and towards the west, trying to benefit from the intricate network of pipes of the Guadalquivir and its mouth or the most open beaches on the coast of Huelva.
