"The officers of the Civil Guard and the National Police played a fundamental role in the defense of the Constitution and the rule of law on 1-O in Catalonia. Any action by the Government that questions these principles and leaves our colleagues defenseless is inadmissible and unacceptable". This is the beginning of the manifesto presented yesterday in Barcelona by the leaders of the Unified Police Union (SUP) and the Unified Association of Civil Guards (AUGC) during a rally against the amnesty held at the gates of the City of Justice.
A rally that did not reach a hundred people and that was attended by leaders of the PP, Ciutadans and Vox, as well as civil associations. The protest served to demonstrate the "absolute rejection" of the pact between the PSOE and Junts and which provides for "criminal oblivion" for causes related to the process between 2012 and 2023. An agreement that the convenors have summarized with the slogan they chanted all morning: "Criminals amnestied and agents prosecuted". The protest coincided with the summoning of 6 of the 13 national police investigated after the complaint of one of the women arrested during the 2019 riots.
"The situation that the prosecuted police and civil guards are experiencing is humiliating. There are agents with permanent disability due to injuries sustained during the protests in Catalonia", recalled Juan Fernández, national secretary of the AUGC. Those gathered carried Spanish flags and banners accusing the acting Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, of being a "traitor".
In the joint manifesto, the SUP and the AUGC denounce that the amnesty "intends to undermine" the principle of equality before the law, since it exonerates from criminal responsibility "those who tried to break social cohesion and the foundations of coexistence and create a dangerous precedent". According to the AUGC and the SUP, the situation facing the agents prosecuted for the charges of 1-O and for the intervention in the 2019 riots in Barcelona is "humiliating", since those responsible "will be amnestied" and they are still being investigated. For this reason they have demanded "responsibility and transparency", since justice "must be blind to political interests", therefore, they reject "impunity being imposed on responsibility and equality before the law".
José Antonio Rodríguez Neyra, general secretary of the SUP, has denounced that the agents accused of acting in the 2019 trial riots have been denounced by the "urban terrorists" who took the lead in the incidents.
