The European Parliament's Mission Notes that Drug and Human Trafficking in the Campo De Gibraltar Has Become "More Dangerous and Violent"

For three days in a row, a delegation of Euro MPs has visited and first-hand learned of the needs of agents working in the fight against trafficking in...

During three long days, the five European parliamentarians who have visited Cadiz and Seville to learn about the reality of drug trafficking have heard heartbreaking stories and also many political promises. They have verified in the first person the suffering of the mother of a civil guard murdered by a narco, they have known the sad testimony of a widow whose husband was run over by a narco-lancha while patrolling on a small boat and they have…

The visit was organised following the increase in attacks against agents, both in Spain and in other European countries. More information: The EU sends five missions to Spain to investigate from Barbate narcos to the Next Gen funds.

"Drug and human trafficking in Campo de Gibraltar has become more dangerous and violent at this important gateway to Europe," said Bogdan Rzonca, president of the Committee on Petitions, as the first conclusion of his visit.

A delegation from the European Parliament has undertaken a visit this Tuesday in Barbate (Cádiz) to get closer to the problem of the increase in attacks on the security forces. “We will be all ears,” said the chairman of the Committee on Petitions of the European Parliament, Bogdan Rzońca (ECR, Poland), who leads this delegation, before meeting [...]

The brutal episode in which two agents of the Civil Guard were killed by a narco-lanche in the port of Barbate on February 9, 2024 has many derivatives. In addition to the judicial investigation, the political dimension of an event that once again brought to the table the lack of means with which the forces and security forces of the State fight against narco-trafficking in the Straits. So that the episode did not fall into oblivion and to look …