The younger drug runners that man the refuelling RIBs (petaqueo) for filling up the drug-carrying ones for their return trip, are boasting on TikTok and belittling the efforts of the Guardia Civil and Coast Guards.
Two Guardia Civil Guard officers lost their lives yesterday after a collision between to police launches whilst in pursuit of a narco RIB off the coast Huelva.
After the frustration felt by residents of La Herradura over the seeming impunity of narco-RIBs carrying fuel in the bay, it is a relief to hear of the police actually knabbing culprits.
The gale didn’t just blow things over on land along the coast yesterday, because it also washed a narco-RIB up onto La Herradura beach as well.
The Guardia Civil intercepted Thursday afternoon four North-African (Maghrebi) individuals after they jumped ashore from a RIB with powerful outboard motors.
A RIB loaded will illegal immigrants landed on a crowded beach in Castell de Ferro yesterday with most leaping into the water before it landed so that the helmsman could make a quick getaway.
It was just before eight in the morning last Sunday when two women on a paddle board managed to contact a friend to say that they couldn’t get back to the shore.
On the penultimate day of 2024, a RIB briefly landed on a Charchuna beach with 17 illegal immigrants onboard. Amongst them were two minors.
The Guardia Civil have opened an investigation into the appearance of a drug-running RIB left beached in Salobreña.
At approximately 16.45h on Thursday a RIB with three powerful outboards came close to shore on Playa El Chucho.