Extensive police device in Darnius to locate four armed people who this morning shot at Civil Guard agents when they were preparing to dismantle the marijuana plantation they were guarding.
The events occurred in a wooded area, located in the vicinity of the Darnius-Boadella reservoir, some three kilometers from the town center of this small municipality in the Alt Empordà, with just over 500 inhabitants.
The four people who fled after the shooting were in charge of monitoring the marijuana plantation, located in a farmhouse in a "scattered area but not difficult to access", as explained by the mayor of the town, Josep Madern. This is an area known as Camper Park.
As reported by the Civil Guard in a press release, members of the Reserve and Security Group number 4 of Barcelona, who were in charge of assaulting the objective, have been shot by firearms by four people who were carrying out security missions. drug surveillance.
After the shots, which have not caused any injuries, the four individuals have fled towards a nearby wooded area. A fact that is generating great expectations in this municipality, not at all accustomed to the large police deployment that it has at the moment.
Members of the Reserve and Security Group number 4 of Barcelona, the Rapid Action group, as well as a helicopter and agents in charge of the investigation of the Civil Guard are involved in the search for the suspects. Other police forces such as the Mossos d'Esquadra are also present.
Mayor Josep Madern explains that this is the first time something similar has happened in the municipality, although there have been other police interventions to dismantle marijuana plantations in other nearby towns such as Sant Llorenç de la Muga or Albanyà.
In August of last year, the Mossos d'Esquadra dismantled a plantation valued at 600,000 euros in a high mountain wooded area of Albanyà. More than 2,000 plants were intervened and the two responsible for the cultivation were arrested, who were released a day later with charges. In that case, those arrested lived on the plantation since the agents found a gas stove, food, and hanging clothes nearby.
