One of the civil guards who patrolled on Friday night in the Zodiac that was hit by a drug boat in Barbate had a personal video camera that recorded the moments before the crime. A tragic, dramatic and horrifying sequence that immortalized the two previous attempts by Francisco Javier Martín Pérez, aka the Goat at the controls of his rubber, trying to hit the civil guard boat.
Two attempts that the civil guard from the special group of underwater activities (GEAS) of the Civil Guard who was skippering the inflatable managed to avoid, and the third did not. In fact, in those moments prior to the fatal impact, the two civil guards from the rapid action group (GAR) who had embarked on the zodiac fired several bursts of shots into the air with their submachine guns. Deterrent shots that did not prevent the lateral collision after the drug traffickers' rubber rose from the bow until it passed over the civil guards' boat, with the known result, the murder of two of them and injuries of varying degrees to the rest. . Miguel Ángel Gómez died instantly, and David Pérez still received desperate attempts from his colleagues to keep him alive for a few minutes.
The images from this surveillance camera have been viewed and analyzed by the judicial police of the Cádiz command, in charge of the report and instructor of the proceedings, with the collaboration of the judicial team of the Barbate detachment. A recording described in the report that accompanied the eight detainees to the Barbate court on Monday, where the titular magistrate of investigation number 1 sent six of the suspects to prison and released the two men, father and son, who They were in a car in Sotogrande, waiting to pick up the three mechanics who had boarded the boat to carry out a repair.
The images, “terrible”, according to several sources familiar with the investigation consulted by La Vanguardia, leave no room for doubt about the identity of the six men who occupied the rubber that Friday night. And they are a terrible testimony of the Cabra's two previous attempts to intentionally ram the Civil Guard boat. Some maneuvers by the drug trafficker in which he avoided a frontal impact or colliding with the engine area of the GEAS zodiac, because he knew of the consequences that impact would have. “He knew perfectly well what he was doing and that if he hit head-on or touched the engine, everyone would die,” the same sources indicated.
After being brought to justice on Monday, early in the morning, the eight suspects testified before the judge. And everyone denied their participation in the tragedy, including Cabra, who assured that he was not at the helm of the drug boat, which this Tuesday was kept in the offices that the Civil Guard has in the port of Algeciras.
Meanwhile, in the port of Barbate, the Civil Guard requested this Tuesday from the port authority the images of all the security cameras in the facility to begin preparing a report in which they will try to identify the people who went to the mouth. to cheer and cheer for the drug traffickers. It will not be easy, but this Tuesday the senior prosecutor of Andalusia, Ceuta and Melilla, Ana Tárrago, began the investigation proceedings. It will be necessary to see what the crimes translate into and their repercussions.
That Friday night, with the interior road of the fishing port leading to the mouth invaded by cars and motorcycles, the Civil Guard already asked the only security guard at the site to shield the exit and prevent vehicles from escaping. But it was impossible.
Hence now, based on the images from the security cameras, the judicial police of the Barbatar town begin to make a list of the neighbors who were there, who could be called to testify. Perhaps the judicial investigation will end in a dead letter because it will not be easy to determine the crime, several sources say, but in the minds of the companions of the two murdered there is the need to carry out some action that shows that what this group of madmen did requires something. more than a mere social rejection from the rest of the residents of Barbate.
