Seven years after the historic event ecologist Andalusian Juan Clavero was arrested for drug trafficking when the Civil Guard found him 47 grams of cocaine in his vanthe trial finally begins before the court of Cádiz. But in the dock, it is not the activist who sits, but the four accused of putting drugs in his car to trap him and destroy your reputation.
Juan Clavero, head of Environmentalists in actionled demands for the closure of public roads in the Sierra de Grazalema Natural Parkin Cadiz.
The trap took place on Sunday August 26, 2017, when Environmentalists in action He called for a protest march to defend the opening of public roads and cattle trails that pass through private farms in the aforementioned natural park. A certain person showed up at the meeting Manual Directorwho declared that he belonged to the Ecologistas de Jerez group, but who no one knew.
After the demonstration, he asked Clavero if he could do him the favor of taking him in his vehicle to a hostel in the town of El Bosque and, before saying goodbye, he hid in the car. a bag containing 47 grams of cocaine and four of hashishenough money for Clavero to be charged with drug trafficking.
A anonymous call He then alerted the Civil Guard that the environmentalist’s car was driving on a rural road with drugs inside. Some officers intercepted the vehicle and Clavero spent the night in a cell.
Suspicions were directed against certain officials of Company Breña del Agua Investments SL (of Belgian businessman Marnix Galle), the largest private owner of farms in the natural park. Ecologists in Action accuses the company of closing public roads and cattle trails.
After an investigation by the Civil Guard, the Ubrique Court Shortly after, he agreed to dismiss the proceedings against the environmental leader and accused José of being the alleged author of the plot. Michael Herrerarepresentative of this company, to Juan Luis Pérez Ramírez and Oscar Gonzalezforemen of the farms which belong to him, since Manuel Alcaïdethe man who allegedly placed the drugs in Clavero’s car. In addition, Óscar González is accused of calling the Civil Guard to warn him.
“The drugs were mine, I had a party”
At trial, the defendants only responded to their defenses. “The drugs were mine and intended for my usefor a party he organized afterwards,” said Alcaide, who denied leaving it in the car on purpose, but rather that he got rid of it because he had heard that the Civil Guard might appear at any time.
Clavero, for his part, told his version of events: “I had not even left Alcaide 200 meters away, whom I had never seen in my entire life until that day, when the civil guards took me stopped. They told me “get out of the car” and they started looking. They took out a bag from under the seat. I asked what it was and one of them. He told me it was cocaine without even opening the bag.“, he declared, according to the press release collected by Cadiz Journal.
Clavero appeared “a little tired”, since the trial is on its third attempt, after two previous suspensions due to “delaying maneuvers of the accused”. And he said: “I hope no member of the mafia ever thinks of doing a so dirty game“.
The spokesperson for Ecologists in Action in Andalusia, Lola Yllescas, denounced that everything was due to “a crude trap” to sideline him and cancel his participation in this campaign.
Requests from the prosecution
The prosecution requests that the four accused, as alleged perpetrators of the crime of false declaration, be sentenced to one and a half years in prison, 12,000 euros fine and 20,000 euros in joint compensation to Clavero for moral damage, with subsidiary civil liability towards the company Breña del Agua Investments SL
Yllescas commented Europe Press his “disillusionment” with the decision of the court of the eighth section, which will prosecute the accused for a crime of false declaration or simulation of the crimethus excluding those of provocation and conspiracy with a view to illegal detention and membership in a criminal group which requested the accusation.
The Andalusian spokesperson for Environmentalists in action considers that the evidence presented was “conclusive” and hopes that the accused will obtain the sentences requested by their organization, i.e. seven years in prison and a fine of 21,600 euros for each defendant, in addition to compensation of 50,000 euros to Juan Clavero and 20,000 euros to Ecologistas en Acción for moral damage.
