After more than 12 hours of registration by the US DEA and the Spanish National Police, the ship 'Mawashi Express' left the Campamento pier (San Roque) this morning and is sailing towards Port Said (Egypt) with 16,000 cows in their stables and so far they have not found the shipment of cocaine they were looking for.
There has been no "relevant" discovery, as confirmed by sources from the National Police, the body that has been in charge, together with officials of the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), of the ship registry.
The Special Anti-drug Prosecutor of the National Court has agreed that, as usual in these cases, the floating macro-stable continues its "guarded" route to the port of destination so that, once there and under exhaustive security control, the 16,000 can be unloaded. cows. Then the DEA agents could continue the search.
Sources close to the investigation do not rule out that the drug traffickers who supposedly travel aboard the vessel got rid of the drug when they saw that it was going to be intercepted in the Alboran Sea, according to the local newspaper Europa Sur. The ship was off Almería when they were diverted to the port of Sn Roque.
The ship, a kind of floating macro farm, is loaded with some 16,000 head of cattle, something important when it comes to paralyzing the trip without affecting the health of the cattle. Thus, the National Police warned that the registry will continue "for the minimum essential time" as long as the integrity of the animals can be "preserved."
The cattle have been "well fed and cared for" in an operation that is carried out with all "cautions" to "preserve the integrity of the animals" with special care for all "sanitary controls", reported the Corps, which displaced more 40 agents to the operation, with the support of an underwater drone.
In this sense, Verdemar-Ecologistas en Acción also expressed their concern about the "conditions of these animals inside this 'floating stable', because most of these boats are old merchandise ships built more than three decades ago and whose purpose It's not trade in live animals, so they don't meet the necessary conditions."
