The lost trail of ‘El Pastilla’, the child carrier who became a murderer in the last drug “war” in Ceuta

2024-01-07 23:04:05

Yusef ML earned his alias, ‘El Pastilla’, for his love of Rivotril, the benzodiazepine that the Security Forces intercept every year in Ceuta in bulk on the way to Morocco to make ‘karkubi’, a cocktail with hashish that, according to the Interior, “causes hallucinations and behavioral alterations.” “It emboldens you, it makes you more aggressive,” explains a young man from the Príncipe neighborhood, where Ismael MA ‘Piolín’, a local drug trafficking kingpin arrested on the Costa del Sol at the end of April, had his fiefdom.

‘El Pastilla’, whose whereabouts are unknown since Christmas Eve, when he left the door of the Madrid Penitentiary Center 2, enlisted in the Nayim KA ‘Tayena’ gang, which controlled Los Rosales, on the other side of the valley by the which extends the Muslim cemetery of Sidi Embarek, in the autonomous city.