Expedientan an agent of the city by a Spanish flag – Infovaticana

Taken from the journal The World

The city Council of Barcelona has expedientado a corporal of the town Guard by wearing a wristband with the colors of the flag of Spain while I was on duty and in uniform at a security device of a manifestation. According to the consistory, the place he disobeyed two direct orders of his superiors on that day, one of them requiring him to remove the banner.
The police formed part of the deployment that the Urban Guard was activated last 28 may, during a march called by members and sympathizers of the Brotherhood of Former Knights Legionnaires against the mayor, Ada Colau. A thousand people marched that day with dozens of Spanish flags -some with symbols preconstitucionales – by Via Laietana, protesting the municipal decision to expel the Brotherhood of the Knights of the Legion of Barcelona of some land that used as headquarters for years in the district of Sant Andreu.
On the tail of the demonstration, at the height of the plaza Urquinaona, was the place of the Urban Guard now expedientado. On his right forearm sported a wrist brace, large with the colors of the Spanish flag. A by the fact that a top in the area of attention and that has cost him to be expedientado by the city Council.
As stated in the notice which he has had access to THE WORLD, the directorate of Legal Services the city Council considered that the conduct he is accused of violating the article 10 of the law of the local police of Catalonia. The police caused with their attitude that “prejudice to the image of the body of the Guardia Urbana of Barcelona, which must act with absolute political neutrality and impartiality”, according to the report. The same notice added, moreover, that the agent disobeyed the direct order of a sub-inspector of the Traffic Division of the Guardia Urbana, which was in the area and that he rebukes you to remove the flag since it is an external element to the uniform and, therefore, prohibited. Both attitudes are considered as serious offences in the law of the local police of catalonia. That same day also defied the order to perform control tasks of the hawking to which he was destined before the demonstration, according to the same report.
If the dossier goes forward to the cape could be punished with the suspension of functions for more than fifteen days and less than a year and the loss proportion of your salary. It could also be moved to another job, according to consists in the regime of disciplinary measures of the law of the local police of Catalonia.
The file was activated on the 4th of October, but the agent did not receive the notificiación officer of the Human Resources Management and Legal Services of the Council until last week. The city policeman now has the possibility of submitting a written challenge to try to stop the punishment.