A network of immigrant traffic was the cause of the multiple accident with two deaths in Cartagena in November | Spain
A network of immigrants was the cause of the multiple accident on a highway highway highway (Murcia) in which last November Two men died and 11 people were injured. The SUV that caused the crash transported a boat with an idea of throwing it into the sea, but its driver skipped the road and decided to back down, sources of the investigation point out. This reckless behavior, with a vehicle that had a system to disable rear lights and avoid police follow -up, ended up causing a collision with eight cars. Three months later, the National Police and the Civil Guard have arrested 17 people from this criminal group, including the person who was driving, and have recovered the vehicle involved, which still retained damage that investigators consider compatible with the incident.
Those responsible for the accident, in which two British men, 49 and 57 years old died, fled from the RM-12 highway as it passed through the town of Cabo de Palos (1,097 inhabitants, in the municipality of Cartagena). The vessel that were transporting, a 10 -meter pneumatic boat with two 300 horsepower engines, detached during the clashes and ended up abandoned on the road.
The detainees are part of a criminal group specialized in the traffic of migrants from Algeria in high -power boats that It was implanting in the areaalthough drug trafficking crimes are also attributed. « They could cover the journey in four or five hours, so that they make up to two trips a day, » explain one of the researchers. The boat that was thrown on the highway had the capacity to transport up to 30 people, with routes per route ranging between 5,000 and 8,000 euros, according to police estimates.
During the investigations, the agents of both police bodies found out the brand and the model of the vehicle that transported the boat on the day of the accident, of great displacement and high range, the identity of its driver, and the place where it could be hidden. They also linked the accident with three people detained one month earlier, on October 6, along with another pneumatic boat of 150 horsepower. That vessel transported 14 30 -liter gasoline drums each, backpacks, tools, a GPS, a satellite phone, clothing and food.
Two days ago, the Civil Guard and National Police agents have completed the work of these months with the arrest of the 17 involved and the registration of three homes in Molina de Segura (Murcia), Elche and Rojales (Alicante). Those arrested, between 35 and 50 years and Spanish nationalities, Moroccan and Algerian, played different roles in the group, from the custody and preparation of vessels, to supervision or testaferros posts (they lent their name so that the name of the real owner of the goods was not known). They are accused of more than a dozen crimes, among them, of homicide, abandonment of the accident site, illicit possession of weapons, drug trafficking, favoring illegal immigration or belonging to criminal organization. Five people have gone to court and the Court of Instruction 2 of Cartagena, in charge of the case, has decreed the entry into provisional imprisonment of three of them, including the driver of the SUV, according to sources of the Superior Court of Justice of Murcia.
In this multidisciplinary research, baptized Narbox-Alakam, two vehicles have been intervened, one of them the cause of the incident, in addition to a shotgun, a revolver and ammunition, 15 mobile phones, beacons, different amounts of cocaine and hashish, precision scale and more than 3,000 euros. The researchers have concluded that the group was supplied with stolen vehicles, to which they endowed with documentation and false plates. In fact, they found the car of the accident with the registered license plates.
