The murderer of the civil guards of Barbate already tried it 14 years ago without success. Karim El Baqqali, the 32-year-old Moroccan citizen arrested for piloting the drug boat that killed two guards on February 9, was «signed» by the Security Forces since he collided with a Civil Guard patrol boat in 2010 and was identified for several caches of hashish allegedly related to the organization of a powerful drug trafficker from his family known as the Pus-pus clan.
Karim is already on his way to Puerto II prison in Cádiz after the Court of First Instance and Instruction number 1 of Barbate (Cádiz) ordered this Friday, at the request of the Prosecutor’s Office, his entry into provisional prison, communicated and without bail. Initially, he is charged with two alleged crimes of murder, four crimes of attempted murder, six crimes of attack, one crime of smuggling and one crime of belonging to a criminal organization.
The murderer of the two civil guards in the port of Barbate blames the victims: “They were chasing me, I was trying to flee.” Karim El Baqqali testified yesterday in the presence of his lawyer at the Cádiz Command of the Civil Guard in a story measured to avoid any responsibility for the crime. As OKDIARIO has learned, the pilot of the drug boat tried to give an image of humility and repentance in a measured statement in which he dared to blame the victims of the double crime.
“I tried to avoid it but I couldn’t”
“I apologize, I could not avoid the boat of the civil guards, I tried to avoid the car with a maneuver but I couldn’t, it was an accident,” said the criminal with a long history of arrests in Spain and Morocco. Asked to explain the situation in which the deadly attack on the guards’ boat took place, the Moroccan drug trafficker had no qualms about placing the responsibility on the guards: “They were chasing us, I was not driving the boat but since I am not the more expert they forced me and I just wanted to escape from there.
Karim El Baqqali repeats the same version of events in the Investigative Court number 1 of Barbate where he arrived guarded by agents of the Civil Guard at 8:40 in the morning this Friday. The drug trafficker surrendered at dawn yesterday Thursday on a beach in Barbate where he arrived in a boat that deposited him on the shore.
