A judge in Spain decreed provisional prison for four Colombians who crewed a submarine and who were detained in an operation with the US DEA in which 900 kilos of cocaine were seized.
The judge of the Spanish National Court Ismael Moreno The suspects were brought to trial for alleged drug trafficking. They were rescued from the sea after the submarine was allegedly sunk when it was detected by a Spanish Customs Surveillance patrol boat some 280 miles west of the coast of Cadiz, in the south of the country.
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The operation began last May when the Spanish Police received information from the DEA, the United States agency against drug trafficking, which warned of a possible transshipment of drugs at sea.
Last Tuesday, the 20-meter-long submarine, similar to others, was located ‘narco-submarines’‘ located in Spain in 2019 and 2023.
Three days earlier, in a parallel operation, 900 kilos of cocaine had been seized that had been thrown into the sea by a ‘drug launch’ 200 miles from the Spanish Canary Islands.
EFE
