“It reminds the coup of 23F” Chaos and confrontation between the police and the Civil Guard in Spain – RT in Spanish – International News

The visit of a delegation of European management agency borders, Frontex, to the Police Headquarters in Ceuta last Thursday in connection with Operation Minerva (startup to detect illegal immigration and cross-border crime) has sparked controversy, reports the newspaper ‘Público’.

Although the official protocol stated that Lieutenant Colonel of the Civil Guard, Joaquín Castro, was transferred to the Community delegation to the fence separating the city of Morocco, the upper head of the National Police in the city, Alfonso Sanchez, went ahead and sent some agents to take out the head of Frontex by another gateway boat and transferred directly to the Police Headquarters.

Noticing the change, Castro and other commanders of the Civil Guard entered the police station to join a press conference that was to be offered. However, Sanchez did not allow images were taken due to “bad manners” of the guards. “In my office I command,” Sanchez snapped when he tried to take a picture alone with the head of the delegation of Frontex but Castro refused to depart.

“Remember the 23F”

“This invasion of the Police Headquarters of Ceuta reminds us which occurred on 23 February at the Congress of Deputies” He holds the union Federal Union of Police (UFP) in reference to the attempted coup of 1981, and described as “violent” behavior of the controls of the Civil Guard during the visit.

Meanwhile, the Pro Guardia Civil (APROGC) Association indicates that it is an “absolute disrespect” because these statements “reaffirm a superb and revanchist mood that has nothing to do with the true spirit brother Body. “

” invasion of competences “

” we denounce the continuing harassment, harassment and invasion of powers of the Civil Guard and we denounce all this is done with the complicity of a minister more concerned about getting rid of political scandals that threaten to bring order to the Ministry and to ensure compliance with the law, “says the police union Interior.

also, spokesman for the Unified Police Union (SUP), Ramon Cosio stresses that this occurs “without the Directorate General of Police or the Ministry of Interior measures to be corrected in the future this type of inertia are taken”.