The Spanish Association of Civil Guards (AEGC) will appear as a private prosecution against the driver who, in the early hours of Thursday to Friday, was driving on the LZ-20 and fled after hitting a Civil Guard officer who had to be hospitalised.
The events as reported by La Voz, occurred when a Citizen Security patrol from Lanzarote observed a vehicle being driven recklessly and imprudently. When they tried to stop him, the driver fled, colliding with several walls and beacons, driving several kilometres in the wrong direction, seriously endangering the safety of other drivers.
In his escape, he encountered another Civil Guard patrol with one of the officers on the road signalling him to stop; however, the driver did not heed the request and ran over the officers, who suffered various injuries. One of them had to be taken to hospital with a broken shoulder.
The driver of the vehicle, who tested positive for drugs and alcohol, was finally arrested and this Friday was brought before the judge, who ordered his release on charges; a decision that is "incomprehensible" for the AEGC because it is "an individual who has committed several crimes", because "to begin with, he was fleeing from the Civil Guard, disobeyed an order from an agent of the authority and also tried to flee again by throwing his vehicle against the agents".
The Association understands that the law "sets out guidelines to which judges are bound when ordering provisional imprisonment", and cites as an example what happened after a minor was run over in Roquetas de Mar, where the driver has also been released, but does not understand why a law is maintained when it "clearly fails", so it considers that it is the responsibility of the legislator to take measures to prevent this from happening again.
For AEGC, a revision of the Road Safety Law is not only necessary so that the penalties for these crimes are increased and the perpetrators are not released, given that, as members of the state security forces and corps, their work puts them at "constant risk" when they carry out their work of maintaining security in the streets and roads of the country.
"We face drivers every day who we don't know how they are going to react to our request to stop and, therefore, we are defenceless against this type of aggression that has cost us, is costing us and will cost many of us our lives". For this reason, in addition to asking for the modification of the Road Safety Law, they also demand to be recognised as authority and not as agents of the authority so that any aggression they suffer "does not go unpunished, as happens in many cases now".
In addition, AEGC will also appear as a private prosecution to ensure that "justice is done and the full weight of the law falls on this individual who put the lives of our colleagues and those citizens who were driving on the LZ-20 in the early hours of Thursday to Friday at risk".