Drug gangs steal three Navy boats during drills in El Retín, Spain
Three rigid inflatable boats belonging to the Spanish Navy were stolen at El Retín. Negligence or surrender? We look at the debate over insecurity in the Strait of Gibraltar.
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Drug gangs steal Navy equipment at El Retín
The Spanish Navy's latest exercise at El Retín beach has ended with an unexpected windfall for the cartels: three rigid inflatable boats, eleven drysuits worth 1,800 euros each, and tracking equipment. While the official narrative struggles to digest the embarrassment of an exercise dubbed Flotex26 that ended in looting, on the forum we ask ourselves whether this is operational negligence or something far darker.
Military incompetence or political connivance?
The claim that the boats were left to their fate on the sand, barely camouflaged, has set alarm bells ringing. Many forum members dismiss coincidence and point to a deliberate institutional decline. The suspicion that there is a tacit order not to bother the clans of the Strait is gaining ground, especially when one considers the dismantling of specialized police units under external pressures that no one in the Government dares to question. The idea that the equipment was simply "handed over" through negligence fails to convince those who see this as a de facto surrender of sovereignty in Spanish waters.
The black market and the backdrop of the Strait
The debate goes beyond the theft itself. The focus is on the impunity with which incivil organizations operate, capable of stripping the Navy itself bare without consequences going any further than a newspaper headline. Will we soon see this equipment on Wallapop or being reused for human trafficking? The suspicion that the State has lost control of the territory is absolute, and skepticism about the capacity to respond is the prevailing mood among those who have spent years watching the Strait become an exclusion zone for Spanish law.
Is this the point of no return for security on our coasts, or simply the latest episode of a management style that prefers to look the other way rather than face the reality of drug trafficking?
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The Spanish Navy's latest exercise at El Retín beach has ended with an unexpected windfall for the cartels: three rigid inflatable boats, eleven drysuits worth 1,800 euros each, and tracking equipment. While the official narrative struggles to digest the embarrassment of an exercise dubbed Flotex26 that ended in looting, on the forum we ask ourselves whether this is operational negligence or something far darker.
Military incompetence or political connivance?
The claim that the boats were left to their fate on the sand, barely camouflaged, has set alarm bells ringing. Many forum members dismiss coincidence and point to a deliberate institutional decline. The suspicion that there is a tacit order not to bother the clans of the Strait is gaining ground, especially when one considers the dismantling of specialized police units under external pressures that no one in the Government dares to question. The idea that the equipment was simply "handed over" through negligence fails to convince those who see this as a de facto surrender of sovereignty in Spanish waters.
The black market and the backdrop of the Strait
The debate goes beyond the theft itself. The focus is on the impunity with which incivil organizations operate, capable of stripping the Navy itself bare without consequences going any further than a newspaper headline. Will we soon see this equipment on Wallapop or being reused for human trafficking? The suspicion that the State has lost control of the territory is absolute, and skepticism about the capacity to respond is the prevailing mood among those who have spent years watching the Strait become an exclusion zone for Spanish law.
Is this the point of no return for security on our coasts, or simply the latest episode of a management style that prefers to look the other way rather than face the reality of drug trafficking?
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