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Justice has acquitted a doctor from La Palma after being accused of illegally granting more than one hundred sick leaves to Civil Guard agents, as reported by the Unified Association of Civil Guards (AUGC).
The events date back to October 2023, when a civil guard stationed in La Palma traveled to the mainland on two occasions while on medical leave, attending to medical directives at all times, submitting the reports on time, and attending the appointments indicated by the unit.
After these trips, the commanders reported this civil guard through military channels and monitored his flights, a situation identical to that suffered by another agent in Tenerife in 2024.
Due to this situation, dozens of agents demonstrated with the slogan *Prisoners of Insularity* to protest against the disproportionate use of the Military Penal Code to limit their freedom of movement. Finally, the Military Court acquitted both agents, although three more are still awaiting trial to this day.
According to AUGC, as they failed to convict the civil guards involved, the commanders decided to arrest the doctor who granted the sick leaves. This arrest took place in March 2024 in La Palma, and the doctor was arrested and handcuffed publicly at his workplace. He was accused of illegally granting more than one hundred sick leaves to agents, an operation that the Civil Guard gave enormous media coverage to.
Furthermore, the association points out that this arrest was carried out without a court order and against the Public Prosecutor's Office's opinion, which considered there were insufficient grounds for the arrest.
An accusation that crumbled in two ways
On the one hand, the accusation against this doctor through civil channels in 2024
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Civil Route (July 2024): An ordinary court forcefully dismissed the case, recalling that the doctor's criteria are supported by specialists and that, in the worst-case scenario, it would be administrative incidents, never a criminal offense.
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Military Route (January 2026): Despite the doctor being a civilian, the military justice system also attempted to investigate him, ultimately definitively archiving the case.
4. Current situation: The doctor sues the commanders
Although the judicial dismissals had little media impact and the damage to the doctor's reputation had already been done, the physician has decided to take legal action.
A court in La Palma has admitted a criminal complaint against the commanders of the Civil Guard and five uniformed military personnel for alleged crimes of prevarication, coercion, harassment, and unjust vexations due to the illegal and disproportionate detention they orchestrated.
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