This is the moment drug traffickers in Cadiz were filmed operating ‘with impunity’ and in broad daylight at the weekend.
The clip, believed to have been recorded on Sunday morning, shows a large so-called narcolancha being handed countless containers of gasoline by two smaller boats.
The narcolancha, a semi-rigid vessel, is seen souped up with four engines on its rear, and equipped with what appears to be a high-tech GPS radar.
The footage was shared by the UFP police union on X.
The union wrote: ‘We’re told this video is from this very morning in Cadiz. Drug traffickers unloading their cargo in broad daylight, with complete impunity.
‘WARNING: Either they give us the resources to combat this crime, or this area of Spain will be taken over by drug traffickers.
‘THEY ARE ALREADY ESTABLISHED: They murder police officers with powerful speedboats, they shoot at us with military-grade weapons, they have better resources.
‘WE POLICE OFFICERS ARE ABANDONED: We need better material and human resources, recognition of our profession as high-risk, and significant legislative changes. An urgent amendment to the penal code and an effective judicial response are needed.
‘If this isn’t done now… this area is lost, and this is just the beginning.’
It comes after a shootout between narcos and police in Sevilla last week left an officer seriously injured after he was shot in the stomach and leg.
Spain’s largest Policia Nacional union, Jupol, is now calling for the immediate resignation of Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska following the incident in Isla Mayor.
In a strongly worded statement released on Sunday, the union said the attack was ‘the definitive proof of the failure of the Special Security Plan for the Campo de Gibraltar,’ claiming it has ‘only served to hide the Government’s inaction while drug traffickers operate freely in Spain.’
‘The State has lost control in the fight against the narcos and our officers are unprotected. Marlaska is the main person responsible for this failure and must resign immediately,’ Jupol said.
The union expressed solidarity with the injured officer – a member of the Greco Tartesos unit specialising in anti-narcotics operations – who was shot in the abdomen and leg and remains in hospital after emergency surgery.
‘We hope for a full recovery for our colleague. We stand with him and with all officers who risk their lives every day in unacceptable conditions, caused by political neglect and lack of commitment to public safety,’ the statement read.
Jupol stressed that the incident was ‘not an isolated case’ but the result of ‘years of insufficient resources, poor planning and a lack of real commitment to fighting organised crime.’
‘Every operation becomes a game of Russian roulette because there aren’t enough officers or equipment. We don’t want empty speeches or posthumous honours, we want to go home
