'Godzilla' and 'Pep': The Mossos d'Esquadra (Catalan police) carry out a drug raid that implicates two officers in the corruption trial at the port.

BarcelonaPep and GodzillaThese were the nicknames of two Mossos d'Esquadra officers assigned to the Sant Martí police station. It was 2015 when a police informant claimed that these officers—whose names he didn't know, only their nicknames—were collaborating with a criminal organization to carry out drug heists, also known as narco-robberies. rolloversto other gangs. The informant added that those involved also included an ARRO agent from the Mossos d'Esquadra (Catalan police) and a former soldier. At the time this information came to light, the investigation into these drug-related robberies was well advanced. In fact, it was awaiting trial. However, although they monitored the ARRO agent and the former soldier because their names had appeared in a phone conversation, they never actually investigated them. Godzilla and Pep

The person who explained all this information was an Internal Affairs agent of the Mossos d'Esquadra (Catalan police) during the third session of the trial. two police officers and two mechanics for planting drugs and weapons in the car of a dockworker at the Port of Barcelona with the aim of framing him. The officer who testified as a witness this Wednesday confirmed that the accused officers had never been investigated by Internal Affairs, although there was a tip-off from an informant involving these two aliases. On Tuesday, the investigation sergeant from Sant Martí—who was the superior of those under investigation and also one of the leaders of the investigation that brought charges against them—indicated that they did not know the corporal and the officer by these names, but that they deduced it was them because of the physical build of one and the Catalan nationalism of the other.

The Internal Affairs officer also confirmed that one of the now-accused officers knew the former soldier they investigated in 2015 because he drove a motorcycle registered to the officer. However, the police investigation did not go any further, although the informant's information raised suspicions. Now, both officers face up to eighteen years in prison, and the mechanics up to sixteen, according to the prosecution's request. They are charged with crimes against public health, illegal possession of weapons, unlawful detention, and, in the case of the officers, disclosure of secrets.

On Tuesday, the victim of the alleged false accusation gave a statement.The dockworker Carlos L. claimed that the plan to frame him was the work of David Caballero, known as Bubito, a former dockworker murdered in Montgat in a drug-related dispute. Carlos L. said he refused to get involved in the cocaine trade, and this was the origin of the animosity. According to the prosecution, both Mossos d'Esquadra officers and the mechanics were responsible for carrying out the plan.

Internal Affairs and San Martín

During the trial, according to sources present in the courtroom, the Internal Affairs officer claimed that it was the investigators from Sant Martí, who initially handled the case, who approached them when they suspected that some Mossos d'Esquadra officers might be involved. However, on Tuesday, the sergeant from Sant Martí explained that the situation had been reversed: that Internal Affairs had come knocking on his door. The officers' defense attorneys maintain that the investigation against them was speculative and that the wiretaps—which even included tapping the Sant Martí police station—were not sufficiently justified. This is why they have emphasized this contradiction.