The Senior Prosecutor of Andalucía, Ceuta and Melilla, Ana Tárrago, has considered it "good news" that charges for piracy are being brought within the framework of the fight against drug trafficking. Regarding this criminal figure, she has emphasized that "it is of utmost importance that crimes of piracy be charged by the prosecution."
As she detailed in statements to the media, this is a "legal tool that allows helping to weaken the logistics of drug trafficking to pursue acts of attacks with boats against the Police, Guardia Civil or Customs Surveillance when they are related to drug trafficking."
In this context, and as El Mundo has reported, the presiding judge of Investigative Court number three of Sanlúcar de Barrameda (Cádiz) has ordered the imprisonment of the five occupants of two narcolanchas arrested by the Guardia Civil last week, after a chase initiated when they were detected at the mouth of the Guadalquivir and in which they came to ram the patrol boat of the Armed Institution, causing minor injuries to four officers.
As a consequence of these events, the magistrate charges them with alleged crimes of smuggling, assault against law enforcement officers and maritime piracy linked to drug trafficking in Spanish territorial waters.
This is the first time that this last criminal offense has been applied to five detainees, something that, according to the Senior Prosecutor of Andalucía, constitutes "good news," while insisting that it constitutes a "legal tool" against drug trafficking. She has compared this route with other measures used against "petaqueo" or illegal "connections" to the electrical grid, "which has been achieved after years of demanding the pertinent reforms and consequent increase in penalties to attack the logistics in drug trafficking".