Posters with photographs of two national police officers accompanied by a text with false accusations in a troubled neighborhood of Madrid. A statement that is even more worrying on the eve of the approval of the reform of the Citizen Security Law that will leave agents more unprotected, according to the unions. The most alarming thing about this fact, which has been occurring for weeks in Vallecas Bridge, It is not the first time this has happened and officials suspect that the same person could be behind them, according to police sources explaining to LA RAZÓN.
It is not easy for agents to deal with the problems of this district and these circumstances have been joined, in recent times, by the dissemination of posters with his face and with accusations that are far from reality. The claims point to officials for taking false “bites” of “club drugs” and that is why nightlife venues are not closed. Total madness.
In parallel, some subject has also pricked the wheels of police vehicles that are parked near the district police station. These damages have also been suffered by the agents’ personal cars and the cars of nearby residents.
“It is a very serious event that endangers not only the integrity of these agents, but also the safety of their families,” denounce sources from the Unified Police Union (SUP) to THE REASON. “These types of acts, in addition to damaging the image of these two police officers, who dedicate their lives to protecting citizens in accordance with current legislation, foster hatred and distrust towards the police forces,” they point out.
The danger of the reform of the Citizen Security Law
The SUP has “strongly condemned these actions” and expressed its “deep concern” about the reform of the Citizen Security Lawwhich seeks to “further unprotect police officers against the improper publication of their images.” “This reform, far from safeguarding the rights and freedoms of all, facilitates impunity for those who act with contempt for the law and for peaceful coexistence,” they say.
Once again, the police officers working on the streets are left unprotected. Agents who should have legal guarantees that protect them from these attacks, not with a regulatory framework that exposes them even more to unnecessary risks. It should be noted that the SUP, as in other unions, continues to fight for members of the National Police to be considered a risky profession.
“Defending those who protect citizens is a basic need to guarantee order and peace in our society,” they emphasize. “We will not allow the targeting or persecution of police officers to be normalized. We will continue to fight for legislation that protects officers and all citizens from those who hate peace and the honest work of the Police, and from the SUP Legal Office We will continue to successfully defend our colleagues against this type of atrocities,” they say.
The most worrying thing about this whole situation is that it is not the first time that the agents have been singled out in this district of Madrid. In that case, posters were disseminated with the photograph of another official who was falsely accused of having abused a foreign detainee. The perpetrator was arrested and also punctured the tires of all the patrol cars, according to the police sources consulted.
The first indication
The SUP lawyer was the one who addressed this issue that is on the verge of trial and the indictment has already been presented. The events date back to July 26, 2023 when a judicial police officer carried out proactive patrolling because both the private vehicles of police officers from the Vallecas police station and the posting of posters disseminating photographs of colleagues accompanied by threatening texts and false accusations were being carried out.
These agents located a Spanish man born in 1980 at dawn on San Diego Avenue with a mask hiding his identity and carrying a folder with documentation and putting up posters. This subject gave a “strong slap in the face” to one of the officials and ended up being arrested. In the mysterious briefcase he carried the pamphlets with the police officer’s face.
On that occasion, in addition to accusing him of false sexual abuse, he detailed the official’s personal itineraries and called on Latino groups to attack him if they saw him on the street. He had various prior records for the crimes of attack, resistance and disobedience.
More than a year later, history repeats itself and the complex investigation remains open by the Judicial Police of the National Police of Puente de Vallecas, although all roads lead to this suspect. The indictment from the SUP lawyer requests a four-month fine with a daily fee of six euros for the crime of provocation to commit a crime of injury and one year in prison for another crime against moral integrity. Civil liability is also requested 4,000 euros. With the new Citizen Security Law, sentences could even be of a lesser caliber.