The person arrested for the death of two civil guards in the port of Barbate, in Cádiz, on February 9, Karim El Baqqali, acknowledged in his statements before the Civil Guard that he was piloting the drug boat that ran over the agents’ boat. This point was reported at the door of the Barbate court by the lawyer for the family of one of the victims, Miguel Lozano, who stressed that El Baqqali, brought to justice this Friday, surrendered to the Civil Guard of Barbate. , accompanied by a lawyer.
After spending months on the run in Morocco, he arrived on the coast of Cadiz in a boat that was not a drug boat, according to the lawyer. He went, with wet clothes and accompanied by a lawyer, to the beach of Hierbabuena, next to the port of Barbate where the events took place, he said.
In his statements to investigators, the detainee, who had been hiding in Morocco for months, admitted that he was the pilot of the drug boat that rammed the agents’ boat up to six times, he said.
But he justified that these were maneuvers to try to avoid the collision with the agents’ boat, in a defense strategy with which he intends to avoid the qualification of the two deaths as two murders, and that they are defined as reckless homicides, the lawyer stressed.
