"There's nothing to worry about. If you don't owe anything, you fear nothing." These are the words of one of the occupants of the houses in Argana where a raid against drug trafficking took place this Tuesday, carried out by the Organized Crime Unit (Udyco) of the National Police. This man, in his 50s, does not want to reveal his name and appears calm, despite the fact that his wife, also in her 50s, and his son, in his 30s, have been arrested in this operation.
Both he and the wife of his detained son claim that their family "has nothing to do with drug trafficking" and that "they are innocent." "There are no drugs in this family. I don't know if they thought they would find large quantities of drugs, but there is nothing here," says this man, who has been living with the detainees for eleven years in Spain, two in Madrid and the rest, nine, in Lanzarote. According to him, he came to Spain within a "protected witness" program from Colombia and, therefore, he says that he cannot reveal his name and does not allow himself to be photographed.
What he does recognize that the National Police has found is "a small jar of marijuana," which this man, who claims to be a massage therapist, had "to make ointments." "It's the only thing they could take, because there is nothing else. They are marijuana branches, which I put on my wife, with an oil, on her knee, because it is good," he says, stationed at a bar that, as a bar, he has inside the house, from where he dispenses food and drinks and where his compatriots meet.
According to his account, the police arrived at his home at 5:00 a.m. "They took us out by force and I didn't even know what it was about. They told me to leave, that they were going to do a search. They knocked down the door and took my son and my wife away in handcuffs," he says.
This man defends the innocence of his family and emphasizes that "they have nothing to do with drug trafficking." "Do you think that with this house, with these living conditions, we have money from drug trafficking?" he asks. "I sell scrap metal. At most I get eight euros a day. I wouldn't do it if I were a drug trafficker," he says.
"I'm not nervous, I have nothing to fear," he emphasizes, despite the fact that his son's wife does say that she is "surprised" and wants her husband to "return home now."
