What happened on the tugboat Sea Paradise It has all the elements of a thriller, with a touch of horror. A dilapidated ship with 10 people on board, storms, drugs, deception, a traitorous crew member, a kidnapping, a murder and a boarding. The bad guy is Petar, a notary Serbian drug trafficker who loaded the ship with 2,300 kilos of cocaine without the knowledge of the entire crew. The dead man is a Haitian sailor who tried to disarm the captor, whose only traces left on the ship were his blood and his passport. The boarding was carried out by GEO police, after negotiating on the fly with the kidnapper. The setting is the cocaine triangle, the enormous portion of the Atlantic between the Azores, the Canary Islands and Cape Verde where large shipments are transferred from South America to Africa to reach Europe.
He Sea Paradise ―45 meters long, 14 meters wide and 51 years of service― caught the attention of the anti-drug services already in October, when it was located stumbling through the Caribbean, with an erratic defeat. She sailed from Panama, headed towards the Dominican Republic and returned to Suriname. She is a pure drug loading zone. “It had everything to be a ship loaded with cocaine,” say sources from the Drugs and Organized Crime Unit (Udyco) of the National Police. The few doubts were dispelled when the ship headed towards the Canary Islands. After reaching the famous cocaine triangle, she made an unexpected change of course and stopped. She was within range, about 250 miles from the islands. The Customs Surveillance Service (SVA) then launched a patrol boat and a commando to board it.
But a distress call changed the plans. A crew member of the ship, flying the Panama flag, had said by satellite phone that a certain Petar, a Serbian crew member, had managed to get a gun into the tugboat, had kidnapped it and had shot dead one of the crew members, whose body had been found. thrown into the sea. The other eight crew members were kidnapped below deck. “Not everyone knew that the ship was carrying drugs,” explain UDYCO sources. The initial plan known to the crew was that they had to take the tugboat, which does not have a license to work in Europe, to Libya or Tunisia after stopping in the Canary Islands. But the kidnapper had other instructions and ordered the ship to stop 250 miles from the Canary coast, which mutinied the rest.
The distress call (supposedly from the cabin) caused the SVA ship that was going to board the ship to turn around, since its officers are not police officers and are not trained for this type of “critical situations.” A team from the Special Special Operations Group (GEO) began to meet, and flew to Las Palmas to board the Condor (the Customs Surveillance ship that was going to take them to the point). The police say that they had to delay a flight, remove some passengers… and that the plane commander sang it to the passengers, as UDYCO sources recall: “We are waiting for a command from the geo “He is coming to go to the Canary Islands for a boarding…” The geoAfter getting off the plane, they boarded the Condor and they went to board at night. In 12 hours they were there.
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The police say that at that time, while the police assault team was meeting, a rumor spread in the underworld of the islands: they were looking for a crew willing to go look for this drug at the Be Paradise. The gossip was so strong that the Civil Guard heard it and began mounting an operation to seize the drugs and thwart the operation. The police told them what was happening and the guards left the work to their colleagues in blue.
The guarantor had managed to kidnap and detain the captain, the second in command and a Haitian crew member on the bridge. He threatened them with death if they did not follow the route he imposed. On a vague day in early November, the hostages on the bridge tried to take Petar's gun. As a result, the Haitian was shot at least once, fell down a staircase… he died. Petar picked up the body, wrapped it, weighted it and, as the police say, “threw the body to the fish.” The rest of the crew understood the message and obeyed Petar's orders. Researchers have found in Sea Paradise the Haitian's passport, along with that of the rest of the crew, and biological vestiges of him on the staircase from which he fell. Nothing else.
We had to negotiate with Petar. From what the agents later learned, the Serb was what the police know as “a guarantee,” a kind of drug trafficking notary that organizations introduce on transport ships to ensure the delivery of drugs. And that is what he was preparing to do with the kidnapping, deliver the cocaine, at the coordinates that he had assigned. And the crew, who had initially refused to comply with orders, were not going to be an impediment, because they were locked below deck. But the kidnapper, as soon as he saw the GEO arriving, threw the weapon into the sea, according to the aforementioned sources. The agents did not trust him. The police video of this negotiation shows the kidnapper and the two hostages in the cabin with their hands raised on the stern of the tugboat, while the agents ask them to lift their clothes, to show everything hidden.
When the ship had been secured and all crew members were shackled at the stern, the tugboat was searched. What the agents saw was also not normal: the hostages had been forced to make a hole in a sealed compartment to reach the difficult-to-access compartment in which the drug trafficking organization had hidden the 2,300 worth of cocaine. Some of it was already outside, attached to strobe lights and jugs of water, in case it had to be thrown away to be collected at sea. He Sea Paradise It was towed to the Los Llanos dock, in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, the great floating cemetery of the narcoships of the African route.
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