The trial had not started and no one knew why. Someone was missing. “They have stabbed him,” was heard in whispers at the Provincial Court of Oviedo. Even without knowing who the victim was, that didn’t sound entirely crazy. It was Wednesday, April 22, and the Galician drug trafficker Carlos García Morales, alias Matadorfor trafficking more than 600 kilos of cocaine, after an international macro-operation by the DEA (American Anti-Drug Agency), the Illinois Prosecutor’s Office and the police of Colombia and Spain. They detained him on his way to Siero, where he stored an arsenal of war weapons “never before seen in Europe.”
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