The last one detained for the death of two civil guards in Barbate says that it was an accident as a result of fatigue | Spain

Accident, tiredness, dehydration … Abdennour El Hichou, the last one detained for the murder on the night of February 9, 2024 of the civil guards Miguel Ángel González and David Pérez In the port of Barbate (Cádiz), he admitted this Monday before the judge that instructs the cause that this day was aboard the narcolacha that overwhelmed the boat in which the agents went, but has attributed the tragic event to an accident as a result of a cluster of circumstances.

The 39 -year -old Hickou has been 15 months since the events hidden in Morocco occurred, from where he was originally, he assured that both he and his three companions, arrested previously, accumulated the day the events occurred an important tiredness after remaining 20 days embarked and that, even, he suffered an episode of dehydration, as he details to El País, sources known to El País.

The now imprisoned has also admitted that he saw the blue lights of the Civil Guard Zodiac in the port, but in the distance, and that although he noticed that the narcolancha hit something when they left the shelter, he always believed that he had been with a buoy from the port and not the boat of the deceased agents. Hichou has also stressed that it had been delivered voluntarily and that its goal was to help in the investigations.

After hearing his statement – which has been similar to the one that he had lent to the civil guards who arrested him – the judge has ordered the entry of the Hichou in provisional imprisonment without bail. He attributes, as to the other three arrested for these facts, two alleged crimes of murder, four crimes of murder in attempted, six crimes of attack, a crime of smuggling and a crime of belonging to the criminal organization.

The version of El Hichou is similar to that already wielded by the other three crew – one between September and the other two in November -, which at all times have defended that they had no intention of killing the agents. However, the police reports contradict their statements, since they conclude that the « brutal » and « free » attack of the narcolanche against the Civil Guard boat was intended to « cause them serious damage or take their lives (agents). » Therefore, the judge already commissioned last January An expert report To determine if the onslaught was accidental, as their crew defends, or an intentional action, as noted by the investigation of the Armed Institute.

The judge intends to determine whether he keeps the accusations of murder against all four or if he reduces them to homicide. In the first case, I would understand that there was intentionality on the part of the crew of the narcolanche and the conviction could be raised to 25 years for each of the deaths and, even, to permanent prison revisable if it is concluded that they were integrated when they committed it in a criminal organization, another of the crimes of which they are accused. On the contrary, if it is concluded that the onslaught was accidental, it would be homicide, and the penalty would be located in the fork between 10 and 15 years, or less, if the facts are classified as homicide for serious recklessness, punishable by a maximum of four years.

The arrest of El Hichou – with which the Civil Guard has put an end to the baptized as a memorial operation – occurred in circumstances identical to those of the other three crew of the Narcolacha. Pressing by the Civil Guard fence on him, as well as the threats he has allegedly received during these months from the Mafias del Strait, who had to reduce their activity in the Strait for the event and police pressure, the HICHOU presented himself in Spain, accompanied by a lawyer, to facilitate his arrest. The same steps had followed in September Karim the baqqali – who was piloting the boat at the time of the event, as confessed later – and,, Two months later, Mohamed Laachiri and Yassine El Morabet. The four allegedly worked for the ABDELLAH EM organization, a nicknamed drug loss Puspus