They are not specific facts or occur “from time to time” as much as the PSOE strives to sell another version of the story. In 2024 the number of aggressions against national police and civil guards reached the record of 16,878. And while the different associations of the armed institute and police unions have demanded that Penalties are aggravated by aggressions to agents and its legal protection is reinforced, both the Ministry of Interior, which directs Fernando Grande-Marlaska, as the general director of the Civil Guard, Mercedes GonzálezThey have ignored their request.
Because today, assault an agent “leaves for free”. The criminal consequences are “ridiculous” and, for the most part, these are “fines that are not paid by insolvency of the aggressor.” Therefore, from the Spanish Association of the Civil Guard (AEGC), they have requested that they be considered “agents of authority” and They are recognized as “authority”as with other professions and as also with Grande-Marlaska, which they call “Uncoverable Interior Minister”.
From this association, they do not understand that this change must continue to claim before the high number of aggressions that suffer every day. And for sample, remember the events lived last weekend in Huelva, where several civil guards have had to be discharged after being attacked “violently” by an individual fleeing several patrols from the Civil Guard and the Local Police. During the tour he rammed several police vehicles, but, without a doubt, the most dangerous moment occurred when he tried to snatch the regulatory weapon from an agent “With bites and with a huge brutality.”
Why are they not a risk profession?
“We are facing another aggression, daily, and not occasionally,” ignored by Marlaska and the general director of the Civil Guard, denounce from the AEGC. An abandonment, which leads them to ask: “Why does our profession still be considered at risk? Why after 50 years of terrorism of ETA, with hundreds of civilian guards killed, do we remain agents of the authority and we are not a risk profession? “
In this sense, they emphasize that recognition as an authority and risk profession, are the “serious deficiencies” with which civil guards are forced to work daily. And all this, “without to date no interior minister or any government having taken measures to prevent the insecurity in whichas if the physical integrity of the agents cares little or nothing.
And, despite the fact that last year the record of aggressions, the socialist Eurodiputa Idoia Mendía He had no qualms about ensuring that agents “They only suffer aggressions from time to time.” He said it in Brussels, in full debate of a directive promoted by the European Popular Party to declare national police, civil guards, military and prison officials as a risk profession.
The Mossos d’Esquadra are. The Ertzaintza is also. And the Foral Police of Navarra and the local police … but the Government has a particular obsession with the State Security Forces and Bodies to whom Boicotea as long as it can. This has been done in the Congress of Deputies where day and day too, The Executive, and therefore, the PSOE, have blocked Again and again the processing of the proposal of law that would allow early retirement for national police and civil guards, as well as their recognition as a risk profession.