The "most difficult" moment for a waiter: discovering that two colleagues were collaborating with drug trafficking

Barcelona"It was one of the most difficult moments of my career." A Mossos d'Esquadra officer from the Sant Martí police station admitted the difficulty of investigating two of his colleagues, for whom he had "affection and fondness." He said this during a new session of the trial against two Mossos officers—an agent and a corporal from the same station—and two mechanics for planting drugs and weapons in the car of a dockworker, Carlos L., with the aim of framing him. The name of the Mossos investigator who testified He had left several times during the trial.But to date, he has not been able to explain his version of events in the Barcelona Provincial Court. He was, to a large extent, the first to suspect that the drugs found in a car had been set up. According to the prosecution's account, after planting the drugs, one of the two mechanics called the Sant Martí police station's emergency number. He said his name was Alberto and that he was an informant for someone named Trini, an officer at the station known for having sources in the drug trade. This call served to report that there were drugs in a car, and the police operation was launched, leading them to the scene: the entrance of a gym near Plaça Francesc Macià in Barcelona. The drugs were found there, and Carlos L. was arrested.

Trini testified today, stating from the outset that he has no informant named Alberto and that none of his informants know him as Trini, which is more of an affectionate nickname among friends and family. He also asserted that his method with informants never involves calling the police station's on-call number, which is not public. Because of all this, he began to suspect something was amiss: "It surprised me; this isn't how I operate," he declared.

This suspicion intensified when he requested to be present during Carlos L.'s interrogation, and the dockworker from the port of Barcelona explained that it was all a setup due to the animosity he had among the dockworkersSpecifically, he mentioned the figure of David Caballero, known as Bubitowho was murdered a year ago in Montgat in a drug-related dispute. Trini admitted that he gave "some credence" to the account given by Carlos L., who also asked the officers to speak with a dockworker he knew who had more details. They did so, and this dockworker provided them with the testimony of another person linked to the drug trade, as the officer explained in his statement.

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They had arranged to meet this witness not far from the Sant Martí police station, and he immediately warned them that they should meet elsewhere because officers from that station were involved. The informant claimed that two officers from Sant Martí were collaborating with drug trafficking, primarily by providing confidential information. Who were these officers? The informant described one as having a distinctive face and a Catalan accent, and the other as very tall and bald. They were known as Pep and GodzillaTrini described how, at that moment, she showed a picture of all the investigative members of the police station, and the informant pointed, "without hesitation," to the two officers who were listening to her testimony this Thursday, seated in the dock. "It was one of the most difficult moments of my career," Trini admitted. From that moment, an investigation began involving the Mossos d'Esquadra's Internal Affairs division, which included wiretapping the police station itself and a Mossos d'Esquadra vehicle. All of this has culminated in the trial currently underway. 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.