The methods used by the trafficking networks are adapting to increased surveillance on the Portuguese coast, especially off the Algarve, and all means serve to achieve this goal. Earlier this week, a plane from Morocco managed to land on an unfinished section of the A26 highway a few kilometers from Ferreira do Alentejo.
On land, two accomplices were waiting to collect the drugs that had just arrived. But they did not count on the intervention of the Air Force, which found the device in the air and mobilized two F16 fighters to intercept and P-3 C Cup to monitor the aircraft. The warning was passed on to the GNR, which sent funds to the scene, but both men on the ground and the plane’s pilot managed to escape, first in a red car, then on foot. The trio escaped, but the drugs – a total of 450 kg of hashish – were seized by the police. The investigation was immediately handed over to the judicial police, who are already taking steps to identify and locate the three traffickers on the run.
The use of “narco vua” – small planes hired specifically for this purpose – has been known in Spain for several years and has already led to dozens of arrests and drug seizures in large quantities. The groups use simple dirt roads for landing and takeoff, but the tightening of the siege by the Spanish authorities causes these networks to divert air routes to the west. But at the first known attempt, even without arrests, the plan was thwarted by the quick reaction of the authorities both in the air and on the ground.
Author: Joao Carlos Rodriguez
Source: CM Jornal
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