Two other crew members of the drug boat who were initially investigated for the murder of agents Miguel Ángel González and David Pérez in the port of Barbate (Cádiz) on February 9 and were later exonerated by a report from the Civil Guard on the 7th. of May, despite this, they will remain in preventive detention for now. Judge María Eulalia Chanfreut has rejected the appeals of their defense in which they demanded their release with the argument that, although both are no longer accused of murder after the police document, they are still accused of other serious crimes ― smuggling committed within a criminal organization and resistance to an agent of authority—which can lead to sentences of up to eight and a half years in prison, as reported this Thursday by the Superior Court of Justice of Andalusia.
The judge, who thus follows the position defended by the Anti-Drug Prosecutor’s Office, already refused on May 15 to release a third member of the group, the pilot of the boat, Francisco Javier MP, alias Kiko the Goat. The judge has yet to rule on the appeals of the other three occupants of the drug boat who were imprisoned for these events. The Provincial Court of Cádiz also has to resolve the appeals presented by those investigated in the same sense.
The two crew members whose release the judge has now rejected are Mustafá C. and David NG. Both of them denied from the first moment that they were on board the boat that ran over the Civil Guard patrol boat occupied by the two deceased and four other agents. who were injured. They did admit that that day they were in the port of Barbate taking shelter from the storm aboard another drug boat and that, after the event, they fled the place and ended up abandoning it on a beach in La Línea de Concepción. In the case of Mustafá C., he even stated in court that he knew the pilot of the drug boat that attacked the agents, whom he identified as a certain “Khaled”, and that both he and the rest of the occupants – he claims which were four in total― “they were Moroccans.”
The second crew member, who got off the boat in the town of Sotogrande before it was abandoned, pointed out the same thing in his testimony, stating that the boat that finally hit the one occupied by the civil guards was occupied by four people who ” They all spoke in Moroccan [sic] among them”. The police investigation now focuses precisely on fully identifying who the occupants of this other drug boat were.
The defenses of both requested their provisional release after learning the content of the report prepared by the Central Operational Unit (UCO) and the Cádiz Command that concluded, after the analysis of the video images recorded by eight cameras, that the boat in The one in which they were traveling together with the four investigated was not the one that attacked the Zodiac of the armed Institute. However, the judge insists that, despite this, there is still a risk that both will flee, considering that the penalties they may receive for the crimes for which they are still accused are serious.
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Judge Chanfreut, who is assigned as reinforcement in the Barbate courts and who already intervened in the proceedings at the beginning of this case, considers that the alleged roots of the detainees in the province of Cádiz that they had alleged to argue that there was no alleged risk of flight is not enough. In this sense, she remembers that one of them, David N., has a police record and is being investigated in two other judicial proceedings. When she decided not to release Kiko el Cabra, the judge also took into account that he had a criminal record – he had been convicted of a crime of gender violence shortly before – and had another case pending for alleged drug trafficking in court. from another Cadiz town.
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