The Court of First Instance and Investigation Number 1 of Barbate (Cádiz) ordered this Friday, at the request of the prosecution, the entry into provisional prisonpress release and no deposit has Karimthe alleged perpetrator of the murder of the Civil Guards last February in the town of Barbate, in Cadiz, after attacking them with a drug boat.
At first, they are attributed two alleged murder crimesfour offences of attempted murder, six offences of attack, one offence of smuggling and one offence of belonging to a criminal organisation.
During his appearance in court, the detainee answered questions put to him by the judge, the prosecution and the defence. the cause is declared secret.
As LaSexta learned, the prisoner entered the Puerto 2 penitentiary center, in Puerto de Santa Maria.
It is worth recalling that the prisoner, who testified in court this Friday morning, answered questions from his lawyer, the prosecution and the defense and said that it was an accident, for which he asked for forgiveness.
Karim EB was arrested after last May a report by the Civil Guard ruled out that the drug boat patrolled by “Kiko el Cabra”, then in prison for those events, was the one that repeatedly attacked until killing two agents of the Army Institute in the port of Barbate.
The report was prepared by the Central Operational Unit (UCO) and certifies that, based on the objective elements collected, it was possible to conclude that the drug boat that attacked the official patrol boat of the Civil Guard in the port of Barbate, up to six times, was not the one that intervened on the morning of February 10 in La Línea de la Concepción, a few hours after the tragic event.
To do this, witness statements were collected as well as videos, including that of one of the prisoners admitted to prison who recorded the attacks from another drug boat. Those arrested maintained from the first moment that they were not the perpetrators of the double murder and pointed the finger at another citizen of Moroccan nationality, Karim.
Background
Karim El Baqqali, the 32-year-old Moroccan citizen, has been “signed” by security forces since he collided with a Civil Guard patrol boat in 2010 and was identified by several caches of hashish allegedly linked to the organization of a drug trafficker known as Pus-pus.
According to the police investigation of the Civil Guard, consulted by Europa Press, this Moroccan citizen born in 1991 in Fnideq – the former Castillejos – had, before his arrest for the death of the two civil guards of Barbate, a detention obligation in force, dated July 1, 2021, issued by the Court of First Instance and Investigation of Torrox (Málaga) for a reserve of hashish.
Investigators from the Central Operational Unit (UCO) and the Organic Unit of the Judicial Police of Cadiz highlight the “varied criminal profilewith continuity over time, and closely linked to the sector of crime against public health, through the management of drug boats.
In the police files, his name appears with other identities and with variations in the NIE number and his place of birth, as well as being “relative to a known drug trafficker who answers to the support of Puspus, who would be the owner of the drug boat piloted by Karim.”
During this first identification in 2010, Karim El Baqqali was accused of a crime of resistance and disobedience in Vélez-Málaga when they were crewing an unregistered boat with three other people and were surprised by the Maritime Service of the Civil Guard on the high seas, “fleeing and embarking on a 30-minute chase”. The police report on the action states that the crew members of the drug boat in which Karim was traveling collided with the Civil Guard boat. Then they threw the bales of hashish into the sea.
The next police action was recorded on September 25, 2019, according to police information consulted by Europa Press, when Karim and another person were identified by a notice of refueling of a boat and a year before attacking the two civil guards in Barbate, in June. On December 12, 2023, the Civil Guard identified four people from Morocco and La Línea de la Concepción with a history of driving a vehicle registered in Morocco, including Karim himself. One of the occupants was Puspus’ son.
“I neither forgive nor forget”
Even though Karim EB stated, according to his lawyer, that what happened in the port of Barbate it was an accident, Paqui Gómez, the mother of Miguel Ángel González, one of the two agents who died that night, said that what happened “was not an accident” and that “he neither forgives nor forgets.”
“I neither forgive nor forgetand even if I go to jail, I will never forget it. They took my son away from me. He is the greatest thing I have had and he gave his life for Spain,” Paqui Gómez said at the doors of the court where Karim testified. “I am not going to remain silent, and until justice is done, I am not going to stop,” he said.
“I am happy, with mixed feelings, with a lot of sadness, but also with joy that justice is done to my son, that is what I ask for, justice and that they pay for what that person or whoever did. That “all those who intervened should go to jail and never come out because of me,” he said bluntly.
Regarding Karim’s statement in which he defended that it was an accident, the mother of the Civil Guard recalled the videos recorded that night in which “you can see how the boat attacks the zodiac” of the Civil Guard. “It is not an accident. Whoever sees it, the proof is there,” he said.
