After going to Barbate last Thursday to be arrested, Karim El Baqqali was taken into custody on Friday, where he told the judge that the officers’ deaths were due to an “accident”.I didn’t want to kill themthe sea was rough. “I hadn’t slept,” explained the alleged killer of David Pérez and Miguel Ángel González. The alleged murderer claimed that he was an inexperienced pilot and that I couldn’t avoid the zodiac with the officers who tried to arrest him that night. He told the judge he was not the “regular” pilot and had been on board for weeks “to feed the family.”
He did not convince the magistrate, who sent him to provisional prison in the Puerto de Santa María prison. He is being investigated for two counts of murder, four counts of attempted murder, six counts of attacks, one count of smuggling and one count of criminal organization. Even surrender has not improved his situation, partly because of the list of antecedents in his police records.
Karim El Baqqali’s police report dates back to 2010. In any case, 14 years on the authorities’ radar who fight against drug trafficking, but in addition to being “signed”, it has already caused an incident on the high seas in 2010 on the coast of Vélez-Málaga, when it hit a Civil Guard patrol boat during a chase.
The driver has in the databases various identifiers for alleged hiding places in which he allegedly participated. At this point, he is linked in the investigations to a drug trafficker nicknamed “Pus Pus”, who, according to some information to which ABC had access, assures that he is Karim’s uncle and to whom he caused serious inconvenience after killing the two agents. and escaping.
The Civil Guard has carried out several investigations, including real estate investigations, into this alleged drug trafficker and the entire environment in which he operates on the Costa del Sol. He is located by informants in Fuengirola and Mijas. In fact, the sources consulted indicate that El Baqqali went to Barbate because he had been threatened. After the death of the two agents, Police pressure greatly complicated the operation. to organizations.
Karim knows a request from July 1, 2021 of the Court of First Instance and Investigation of Torrox (Malaga) for a reserve of hashish. It is an arrest warrant to respond to the authorities, which is why he was already on the run before running over the two agents at the mouth of the port of Barbate on the night of February 9.
Investigators from the Central Operational Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard and the Judicial Police of Cadiz have found Karim other identities with variations in the NIE number and place of birth. She was born in 1991 in Fnideq, known in Spanish as Castillejos. A border town with Ceuta and in whose waters he was recorded sailing on several occasions during the seven months of escape.
Boats and hiding places
Fleeing, driving the boat recklessly and finding himself facing a Civil Guard boat did not only happen to him in Barbate. Karim El Baqqali has a story that goes back to August 19, 2010 for similar events, although on this occasion without fatal results.
At that time he was accused of a crime of resistance and disobedience in Vélez-Málaga while he was on board an unregistered boat with three other people. They were surprised by the Maritime Service on the high seas and fled. That day, they collided with the Civil Guard patrol boat in a sudden turn.
Additionally, on September 25, 2019, he was identified in an alleged refueling of a boat. Sources claim that he was undocumented after landing in the Sotogrande area (Cadiz). Traveling on board a boat from Malaga to Algeciras. Almost a year later, on May 26, 2020, he was identified on board another ship in the port of Cabopino (Marbella).
On January 18, 2021, he appeared before the police in Nerja (Málaga) on the occasion of the reserve of 119 bales of hashish carried out in 2018. It is indicated that it is a drug boat, in addition to the vehicles and objects seized, the DNA genetic profile is positive for the identification of Karim El Baqqali. That is why he has the request of Torrox.
A year before Barbate’s murder, he had been identified after following a boat that was leaving Morocco for La Línea de la Concepción (Cádiz). He was on board a vehicle registered in Morocco. Karim El Baqqali’s journey also includes a immigration violation registered by the National Police in Jerez de la Frontera (Cádiz) on July 18, 2011, where he appears under a pseudonym.
