A judicial error releases three men arrested for transporting 400 kilos of hashish | Spain
The National Police watched their activity for months and He followed a thousand kilometers from Marbella to Jaca. Until, in the immediate vicinity of the city of Oscense, the agents intercepted the convoy with three vehicles of an organization that intended to transfer 400 kilos of hashish to France. In the intervention, which occurred on April 6 and in which one of the drivers reached the policethree French citizens between 20 and 34 were arrested, who were added two more in Marbella the next day. After brought to court 48 hours later, the latter were released by a Marbellí court. And the first three, sent to prison accused of drug trafficking crimes, belonging to criminal organization and documentary falsehood by a judge in Jaca. Until a judicial error forced them to free them days later because, according to the Provincial Court of Huesca, his right of defense had been violated by not facilitating the judge the essential elements of the case, as sources from the Superior Court of Justice of Aragon.
The police operation –called Epicurean and financed with European funds– He caught attention because while on the coast of the Sun the seizures of dozens of bales with hashish are frequent, in Aragon they are not so much. The work had started in November 2024 after the units specialized in drug trafficking on Malaga coast They will detect the presence of several individuals linked to this marketaccording to the Interior Ministry. Surveillance served to verify that they used false documentation and that, with it, they rented vehicles for their criminal activities. Everyone also traveled constantly between Morocco, Spain and France to send hashish to French territory by the method called Go fast. It is a habitual way: two cars that make their way along the highway at full speed to detect possible police controls and a third, behind, which transports the drug.
In March the researchers detected that the suspects had bought tools, canvases and mountains. Everything pointed to a kidnapping or murder plan, so they decided to act. And in full transport of ten bales with 400 kilos of hashish from Marbellaintercepted them in the surroundings of the town of Arguis, about 50 kilometers from Jaca. The van driver narcotic He rammed the agents and then managed to flee Campo through, although three other members of the convoy were arrested right there. In addition, two other people, considered the alleged intellectual authors of drug sending, were arrested in Malaga the next day. These were made available to the Court of Instruction number 2 of Marbella, which decreed its release. And the first three did it before the Court of Instruction number 2 of Jaca, where the judge sent them to provisional prison. The actions were decreed as secret from the Marbellí Court, which was the one that opened the first proceedings.
The lawyers of the arrested, however, appealed to the Provincial Court of Huesca that income in jail. They considered that their right of defense had been violated because they had not provided them with the essential elements of the cause. The audience responded on the 21st and proved them right. They ordered your releasealthough he kept them withdrawal from the passport and the obligation to appear every Monday in the court (and every time he requires it). The case is similar to the one that at the beginning of the month released the one considered head of an organization that, in October last year, It had supposedly imported 13 tons of cocaine through an Alicante company.
« Too cautious »
« The judge who made a statement to the detainees did not expose the details and reasons why they were really being arrested. She did not want to violate the secret of the proceedings. Perhaps she was too cautious and did not give the information that the lawyers understand basic for the defense, » explain sources of the Superior Court of Justice of Aragon, which defend the judge because the hearing « at no time speaks of error » in their order. « In court the nuances are very important and there are many interpretations, » they insist from the Aragon TSJ.
For police sources consulted, it is a ruling that shows the work done by the specialized units throughout the country that, in addition, this time it had the collaboration and support of Europol and the financing of European funds. « Our effort is not proportional to the decisions made by the judges”, Underlines an agent.“ These and many others are dangerous criminals. And then we are wondering that why there are so many shootings on the Costa del Sol, ”says one of the many police officers who work in the area, who say that the release of detainees in their operations is relatively common.“ We can do little with the means they provide, the passivity in the courts or the little recognition of those who work more directly against those organizations as UDYCO And Edoa ”, adds a third researcher, who believes that all that is subsequently reflected in the unequal fight against criminal groups.
