An alleged drug trafficker died and two others were injured this Sunday in Casar de Escalona (Toledo, 2,100 inhabitants) when they shot at Special Operations Group (GEO) agents who were about to arrest them, as confirmed to EL PAÍS by several police sources. The shooting occurred in the streets of the municipality of Toledo, during an operation to arrest members of a criminal group of Dominican origin that the National Police links to drug trafficking. When the officers stopped them, the deceased and the two wounded began to shoot at them with the pistols they were carrying with them, so they geos They repelled the attack with their weapons. There are no injuries among the officers.
This is the second serious episode that has occurred in anti-drug operations in Spain in recent days, after last Saturday a 45-year-old police officer was seriously injured after being shot with an assault rifle while participating in the monitoring of some drug traffickers in Isla Mayor (Seville). The officer suffered a gunshot wound to the pelvis.
In September 2022, an internal report by the National Police warned of the risk of a “short- and medium-term” increase in illicit arms trafficking into Europe from the uncontrolled arsenals of both sides following the invasion of Ukraine. In recent years, in fact, the Ministry of the Interior has launched several contracts to acquire material with which to strengthen the security of its agents after having noted that drug trafficking organizations are increasingly using weapons of war, of greater power than the pistols and revolvers they used regularly until recently. These acquisitions include ballistic shields capable of withstanding the impact of bullets fired from assault rifles just 15 meters away and high-strength plates with which to reinforce officers’ bulletproof vests.
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