It sparked gunfire Early last Saturday in a cluster of ships on the Toronhos Highway, in Isla Mayor, when a group of drug traffickers surprised a team of National Police agents who were conducting surveillance. Before a … Not only did the drug transport operation result in one policeman being shot in the thigh, but another of his colleagues suffered two broken ribs when he was hit by a bullet stopped by his bulletproof vest, and a third suffered a fracture in his triceps.
This was confirmed to this newspaper by sources from the Federal Police Association (AFP), explaining thisThis other officer, who suffered two broken ribs, is on leave and recovering at home.after receiving assistance at the Virgen del Rocio Hospital in Seville.
He went to this hospital center where this officer and the third suffered a triceps fracture They carried their comrade who was wounded by a bullet in the thighThis happened after the aforementioned confrontation with a group of drug dealers who were riding in a small truck.
According to what was reported by the National Police, the worker was shot in the thighHis condition is stable after undergoing surgery at Virgen del Rocio Hospital He continues to receive assistance from health workers.
The three above-mentioned agents would form a team that was executing from a vehicle Monitoring and surveillance duties on Isla Mayor In anticipation of a possible operation to transport narcotic substances.
The three aforementioned agents, members of the Greek National Police, collided with a small truck that was transporting drugs. The drug dealers had opened fire on them with a Kalashnikov AK-47 military rifle, and the result had been previously described.
From there, the National Police, with the support of the Civil Guard, completely surrounded and intervened in the aforementioned group of ships on the island of Isla Mayor, on a country road surrounded by rice fields. With dozens and dozens of vehicles and agents from the Special Operations Security Group (GOES) and the Special Operations Group (GEO). And Special Response Groups for Organized Crime (GRECO) muster a helicopter, numerous agents, long weapons and all kinds of equipment. Rarely do you see a display of this size.
So far, officers have been able to intercept a first batch of about 700 kilograms of hashish and two stolen cars in one of the searches conducted in the warehouse area. In addition to another 3,800 kilograms of the same drug in another ship, which was supposed to be transported by a drug boat from the coast of Cadiz.
The operation remains open to arrest the perpetrator or perpetrators of the shooting, because despite the report on Saturday of the arrest of a man in the aforementioned warehouses, the police confirm that his arrest comes for reasons unrelated to the operation itself. So, No one has been arrested yet in connection with the aforementioned shooting.