THE chief of considered one of Spain’s most infamous drug trafficking teams has claimed {that a} Netflix documentary about his actions violated his rights in an attraction to the Supreme Court docket.
Convicted narco trafficker Francisco Tejón claimed {that a} documentary sequence, considered 2020’s La Línea: Shadow of the Narco, disadvantaged him of the presumption of innocence by portraying him as responsible earlier than a court docket had reached its verdict.
Elements of the massively fashionable sequence explicitly mentions Francisco Tejón’s trafficking gang Los Castañas and focuses on the police efforts to apprehend him and his brother Antonio Tejón.
As a part of his attraction towards his November 2022 sentence for drug trafficking crimes, Francisco Tejón claimed the documentary was biased in favour of the police and prosecution and damage his proper to a good trial.
The sequence was exceptional for that includes high-ranking Policia Nacional officers and felony prosecutors discussing the case towards Los Castañas on the document.
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Francisco Tejón’s attraction described the sequence as a ‘eulogy’ to the police in La Linea and the prosecution within the Campo de Gibraltar space and that it was a part of a ‘weird and badly dealt with felony coverage.’
Nevertheless, Spain’s Supreme Court docket dismissed this and different claims in his attraction, stating that the conviction was primarily based on ‘the massive amount of medicine’ present in Francisco Tejón’s dwelling.
Francisco Tejón handed himself in to police in 2018 after a two-year manhunt, however the big expanse of his trafficking operation, plus a variety of overlapping circumstances, meant he was not tried till 4 years later.
He led Los Castañas together with Antonio Tejón, managing to regulate over 70% of cannabis trafficking by La Línea on the gang’s peak.
Primarily based out of La Linea and throughout the waters in Tangier, the brothers had been liable for a whole bunch of consignments of medicine crossing the Strait.
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Antonio Tejón, who was sentenced final yr to 6 years in jail, was estimated to have amassed a private fortune of €60 million.
Francisco will now serve his authentic sentence of three years and one month.
In the meantime, the epicentre of Spain’s drug smuggling drawback has migrated from La Linea to the mouth of the Guadalquivir River close to Cadiz and into Sevilla province.
