Spanish police unions on Friday accused the far-right party Vox of coercing and threatening officers during protests in recent days in Spain.
Vox leaders have supported and participated in the demonstrations that are called daily on social networks for the early hours of the morning at the PSOE headquarters, to protest against the amnesty for Catalan separatists.
The largest demonstrations have taken place in front of the national headquarters of the PSOE, in Madrid, and have ended with riots and police charges.
Last night, deputy Javier Ortega Smith attended the demonstration in Madrid, with behavior that this Friday the Federal Police Union (UFP), in a statement, considered “unreasonable” and “extremely serious.”
Ortega Smith went to the scene of the events to the police, gave them his deputy card and said that he was there “as an observer” and that the Vox group had come with cameras to make recordings in case of excesses by the riot unit.
“Neither Mr. Ortega nor any deputy has the authority to threaten, coerce or attempt to direct any police work,” the UFP statement reads.
The union reminded Vox that the police officers who are at the demonstrations against the PSOE “are the same” who, for example, protected the party’s leader, Santiago Abascal, when he was stoned at a rally in Vallecas, south of Madrid.
“Instrumentalizing the work of the Police, depending on who is behind the posters, is a serious mistake,” added the union, which stressed that the police are not “henchmen” or “lackeys” of the ministers, whatever the color of your affiliation. Government.
Another union, Jupol, cited by the EFE agency, also condemned Ortega Smith’s behavior and stated that “what political leaders should do is appeal for calm” because violence cannot be condoned or justified, especially violence against the police.
The Unified Police Union (SUP) also denounced this Friday that the Vox leaders put the police, whose mission is to restore public order, and the violent people who have infiltrated the demonstrations in front of the national headquarters on an equal footing. PSOE.
“The SUP has been asking for single-person cameras for all colleagues who work in public order for years. We have nothing to hide, Mr. Ortega,” said union spokesperson Jacobo Rodríguez.
The leader of Vox promised on November 9, in the first days of demonstrations called on social networks, a “long civil resistance” to the agreements of the socialists with the Catalan independentists.
Santiago Abascal, who has attended the Madrid rallies several times, stated that the Government ordered police charges against peaceful and legal demonstrations and asked the police “not to execute illegal orders if they are repeated.”
In addition to riots, such as the throwing of objects and stones at the police, these demonstrations have been marked by the display of fascist symbols and those of Francisco Franco’s Spanish dictatorship and, last night, by the burning of Catalan flags.
Thursday’s demonstration, with four thousand people, according to the authorities, was one of the largest so far in front of the PSOE headquarters and took place on the day that the socialist Pedro Sánchez was re-elected prime minister.
Source: TSF
