In Spain, the violence associated with drug world increases exponentially year after year. Keeps the sad record of being the favorite entry door to the great movements of drug traffickers and the stain of corruption extends to every day higher strata. This article in El País we see a small sample of this 'button'.

Andreu Manresa - Palma de Mallorca - 27/01/2009

A tortured at trial revealed the brutality of the 'clan La Paca' and police collusion with a Balearic

"I was kidnapped and all hit me with a death threat." Durand Ignacio, Nacho, told the hearing yesterday before the vicissitudes of Palma in the shanty town of Son Banya, in Palma, in February 2006 when a clan of traffickers arrested him and tortured him into believing that they had removed the black box the drug: 6.7 million euros. Before him, another hostage was maimed. He lost part of one ear, sliced ​​by a cutter, an action attributed to the leader of the band, Francisca Cortes, La Paca.

Up to 20 drug traffickers were reported by Durand, who left Mallorca heading overseas after his lawyer, Maria Angeles Lopez, began to negotiate a deal, charging a "compensation", 1.3 million-with the chief the band. While holding back the claims, the lawyer was in communication with her boyfriend, antiatracos Chief Inspector Jose Gomez, Pepote, as heard on wiretaps made during the investigation.

The narco Francisca Cortes, La Paca, uncovered extortion, filmed while Pepote fixed payment of 1.3 million, "How much can you afford? (...) I tell you [will] 150 [million pesetas] next week? ". The Paca paid part of the legal Lopez in cash and in the village, with two of his lawyers. Ensures Pepote threatened. "I was getting scared. I said, 'You're going to get 20 years. " Lawyer and inspector face penalties of 12 and 11 years' imprisonment respectively, for bribery and money laundering.

The spoils of dirty money from the drug was hidden underground in the stable of harness racing one of the members of the clan. The traffickers, after receiving repeated convictions for money laundering, had failed to make real estate investments and bank deposits because they are newly requisitioned.

La Paca, with convictions for money laundering and drug trafficking, has a petition of 35 years in prison for illegal detention, torture, injury, threats, bribery, burglary. It is the matriarch of the clan of brothers, sons, cousins ​​and sisters. Nacho Durand, a native of Paraguay, worked as a blacksmith for the band Son Banya, a settlement of shacks created by Franco for "Roma integration."

Nacho said that assaults with knives circumvented "a foot", was kicked, punched, beaten with sticks, planks and a bat, shouting "Where's the money?". The band sought the black money at home, led him from one place to another car and threatened to burn him alive. "Humiliating, threatening and holding me against my will."

He identified his alleged assailants in the room, face to face, one by one. "These people were agitated, showing knives, beatings and recriminándome giving me that they had stolen when they gave me work."