The organization of Malik’s arrest: the keys to catching the head of the heroin corridor
Malik’s reaction to being arrested at a Girona train station
The civil guard after months of complicated investigations and wiretapping is now ready for act against the leadership of what they had called ‘Operation Raval’.
In one of these wiretaps between Malik and a contact in the Arab countries, The civil guard realizes that Malik is heading to Spain with a cargo. With coded language, they spoke of cars referring to kilos of drugs and a driver, the person in charge of carrying the merchandise. After this, the police receive another key information and an agent explained: “That same day we found out that Malik would travel on a train from Zurich to Barcelona.”
The organization of Malik’s arrest
At that moment the team is organized and the entire team that worked on this operation is called to begin distribute roles and functions of each agent. The interpreter, key in the investigation, since he was the person in charge of translate all wiretaps, Because of Malik’s profile, he comments that he couldn’t tell which stop Malik was going to get off at, but he was convinced that I was not going to reach the last point of the routethe Sans station in Barcelona.
After this hunch from the interpreter, the operation is modified and is organized so that several camouflaged agents get on the same train that Malik is traveling on, to monitor which station you get off atsince they did not trust that the entire journey would end but they could not know in advance which stop I would choose.
“Normally traffickers, not out of fear of being investigated, but out of fear that someone has found out and is trying to steal the drugs from them, usually lie to each other,” said one of the civil guard agents in charge of the investigation.
Perpignan station in Franciacuatro.com
Taking this into account, it is decided to go to Perpignan and several agents get on the train that Malik is traveling with of the objectives, first, verify that Malik was physically traveling on that train and the second, follow him until the moment he gets off from the train, whether in Barcelona or any other point.
Malik’s arrest should have been in Spanish territory
One of the keys to Malik’s arrest that the civil guard took into account at all times, is that it was necessary to carry out the detention on Spanish soil, since the proceedings that are open against him are open in a Spanish court.
From the train, the agents locate which compartment Malik is in, they wait until they see him move and get off the train. Once Malik decides to get off at a station in Girona, the two agents who were on the train and two others who were at that station, They decide to stop Malik and arrest him.
“At that moment he was very surprised, he didn’t understand anything, but we told him yes or yes he had to accompany us to the civil guard headquarters in Gerona,” stated one of the agents at the time of Malik’s arrest.
To conclude, once the civil guard checks the suitcase from Malik, they realize that there are several quilts and in a false bottom from the suitcase they find of heroin bagsone of 5 kilos and another of 3 kilos.
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2024-02-07 23:20:25
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