Two civil guards have been killed and two others injured, one of them in very critical condition, after a drug boat rammed into their patrol boat in the port of Barbate (Cádiz), according to sources in the investigation that have informed EFE.

The same sources have detailed that the deceased are an agent from the Special Group for Underwater Activities (GEAS) and another from the Rapid Action Group (GAR). In addition, two other civil guards have been injured, one in very critical condition and the other slightly.

On Friday afternoon, a device had been established in the Port of Barbate to identify the occupants of several high-speed vessels.

When a patrol boat approached the boats, one of them suddenly rammed into it.

According to the videos published on social networks, numerous people have witnessed the events from the port and recorded the events with their cell phones. In the recordings you can see how some witnesses cheer on the drug boats that confront the Civil Guard patrol boats.

Interior sources have confirmed to EFE that the minister, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, will travel to that Cadiz town tomorrow.

Precisely, the minister was in Algeciras this Friday where he presented the extension until 2025 of the Special Security Plan for Campo de Gibraltar which, since its launch in 2018, has allowed the intervention of 1,700 tons of drugs and more than 97 million of euros in cash from drug trafficking.

The Unified Civil Guard Association (AUGC) has regretted, through its account on the social network X, the event. “Waiting to learn more details about what happened, we demand a thorough investigation of these seriously serious events,” they say.

For its part, the professional association Justice for the Civil Guard (JUCIL) has demanded in a statement the resignation of the Minister of the Interior and has denounced that his colleagues were in “an inadequate and low-powered ship over which one of the powerful “boats used by mafias for drug trafficking.”

“The published videos make what happened even more terrible, with people cheering the murderers and laughing at the civil guards who, with their poor means, have died when they were trying to do their duty: prevent drug trafficking,” says the association for which “the cruel murder of two civil guards requires an immediate and forceful response from the Ministry of the Interior and, of course, the resignation of its current head.”

The Barbate City Council has declared three days of official mourning for the event that occurred this Friday night. In a press release, the council expresses its concern at the tragic death of two Civil Guard agents during an operation against drug trafficking in the town.

A little over a week ago, a man traveling in a drug boat died after the boat collided with a Civil Guard patrol boat, in that case at the mouth of the Guadalquivir River, in Sanlúcar de Barrameda, in the same province of Cádiz.