Francisco Clemente was arrested last weekend in an operation by the Civil Guard itself. Clemente is currently free and the judge has taken away his passport.
EL PAÍS, which has been investigating his modus operandi and that of his alleged accomplices since the end of 2021, has tried to contact him on several occasions. His lawyer does not have a working phone and Clemente refuses to speak to this newspaper. The plot benefited from the fact that in Spain there are no clear protocols for searching for identification of bodies of immigrants who try to arrive irregularly.