Eleven years after the investigation broke out into an alleged drug trafficking and police corruption plot, the so-called ‘Macedonia case’, which filled pages and pages in the press, finally comes to trial. The hearing against 17 defendants began this Wednesday at the Barcelona Court, including a Mosso, José R., stationed at the Vilanova police station. The prosecution claims for the 17 defendants penalties of between four and 11 years in prison. The defenses tried in the first session to cancel the tests.
The public prosecution maintains that in the “criminal network & rdquor; created for drug distribution, the facility for the accused “to interact with members of the forces and police forces & rdquor ;, which added to their criminal conduct a“ plus of dangerousness & rdquor; by being able to carry it out more effectively, “without fear of being discovered & rdquor ;, and with impunity,” by being difficult to identify and arrest & rdquor ;. The network, in his understanding, was allegedly headed by the confidant Manuel GC
The ‘Macedonia operation’ began at the end of 2010. During the investigations led by the judge of Barcelona Joaquín Aguirre se have opened a dozen processes. In some of them, which were shelved or ended in an acquittal, Mossos commanders, national police and civil guards were involved. There were also some convictions of others involved. Now one of those pieces is going to trial, the one that deals with an alleged cocaine, marijuana and hashish trafficking organization. The alleged leader, Manuel GC, obtained between 2003 and 2010 income that can reach 2.4 million euros, according to the prosecution.
The case put on the table the thin red line in which the relations of the policemen with their confidants move, and placed on the wire the anti-drug work – in some cases very meritorious – of the State security forces. The court case includes conversations between confidants, citing police officers, prison officials, lawyers, politicians and journalists.
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The public prosecution maintains that the 17 defendants, in a “structured, hierarchical manner and with a certain distribution of functions & rdquor ;, were dedicated, along with other unidentified persons, to the acquisition, adulteration, dosage and sale of drugs. The plot had a “much greater & rdquor; because of the network of contacts they had, especially between the State security forces, and the “professionalization in the execution of the crime & rdquor ;.
In its letter, the public prosecutor specifies that during the investigation the “facility & rdquor; of the organization to contact “unidentified” agents, which made the security measures adopted, such as the constant change of mobiles, “prevent & rdquor; surveillance and monitoring of investigators. In this sense, the prosecution details that Manuel G. was a confidant of “preminent & rdquor; of police forces.
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