Jose F. Sanchez
Madrid, Apr 21 (EFE).- The town of Cañada Real Galiana has been, since 2007, the largest drug supermarket in Spain for the benefit of clans such as the Gordos, the Kikos or the Saavedra, organizations that gobble up those that are being dismantled by the police, as in a kind of game of pacifiers in which they can only be eliminated by the agents.
One of those who knows them best is the head of Group I of the Investigation Operational Groups (GOIZ) of the National Police in Madrid, whose identity should not be published for security reasons, and who in an interview with EFE explains that in the Cañada Real “there are clients for everyone”, so when one clan falls, another takes over, as the Saavedras did after the dismantling of the Kikos in October 2020.
The Pacifier is getting bigger and bigger, and it is that at that time the Kikos were selling about 200 daily doses, while the Saavedras, arrested less than a month ago, had reached a daily sale of more than 500 doses. “When an organization falls, the next one is forced to grow,” says the researcher.
Together with the Gordos, they have lived in the Cañada Real since the height of drug trafficking in the town, which began in the late 2000s. They all have “marriage and family ties” to each other, which makes it easier for them to transfer the base of the structure of their drug sales point – “machacas”, “aguadores”, etc. – to the heir clan when they fall into the hands of the police.
The GOIZ agent defines Los Gordos, the first large drug clan in La Cañada, as “pioneers”; to the Kikos as its “direct heirs”, and to Los Saavedra, who gobbled up its structure, as the most “reluctant” clan that he has investigated.
THE MOST ACTIVE POINT OF SALE IN SPAIN
The researchers knew that the Saavedras had the capacity to assume the structure of the Kikos, so they were going to get stronger. In fact, they bought a farm from their predecessors in the best location to hide from the Cañada Real and turned it into a whole bunker with labyrinthine corridors and armored doors.
The agent who has led the investigation highlights this clan, headed by a married couple, for their “exhaustive knowledge” of this type of legal proceedings, “of how a police indication can become evidence” against them, which led them, among other security measures, to “not flaunt” his high lifestyle on social networks, as some of his predecessors did.
In addition, the leaders, who lived in a chalet in the town of Morata de Tajuña, did not set foot in La Cañada to avoid being associated with the point of sale, which complicated the work of the agents, who were forced to innovate. through investigative techniques that cannot be revealed so as not to jeopardize future investigations.
After following the trail of this clan for almost two years, on March 23, more than 200 agents broke into that “drug amusement park”, as the person in charge of the investigation recalls.
Despite the fact that the search occurred at six in the morning, up to 31 people were counted in the smoking room (a comfortable stay for clients to consume narcotic substances), which proves the sales capacity that the Saavedras had reached, who ran ” the most active point of sale in the country”, assures the researcher.
WORK IN LA CAÑADA
For the GOIZ agents and the rest of the police brigades that regularly set foot on this terrain, Cañada Real is one of the most hostile points in the national territory: “As soon as they set foot there they know we have arrived. If you are not a neighbor or a drug buyer, you are a police officer”.
The so-called “water carriers” are in charge of warning of the police presence when the agents come to carry out surveillance or other types of investigations.
As an anecdote, the researcher reveals that the Saavedras warned by shouting “Tomás!” as soon as they detected the plainclothes agents. At that time, the entry and exit of clients in his particular bunker was paralyzed.
With the organization already dismantled, the agents believe that there is currently no other clan that can take over the activity of the Saavedras, although they know that the clients do not disappear and will return to the Cañada Real Galiana for their dose.