The Second Section of the Provincial Court of Las Palmas has ratified the sentence of five people for brutally assaulting two Civil Guard officers during the La Santa festivities, in Tinajo, in July 2017. The Provincial Court has ratified the sentence imposed by the Criminal Court number 1 of Arrecife in December 2024.
A Civil Guard patrol went to the area on July 22, 2017 due to fights that were being carried out by about twenty people in the street at 4:30 in the morning.
The sentence declared proven that Domingo B.G., Jeffrey B.T.N., Graciliano E.H., Kilian E.D. and David F.H. attacked in the company of ten other people against two civil guards who had come to a garage in the town of La Santa where a early morning party was being held and they hit them and knocked them to the ground.
As a result, one of the officers suffered cervicalgia that took five days to heal after a first medical assistance and the other suffered the breakage of two teeth and a deviation of the nasal septum, which required surgery and kept him on leave for 45 days.
The judge acquitted, however, five more men who had been prosecuted and brought to trial for these same events, as there was not enough evidence that they participated in the aggression against the officers.
The Independent Association of the Civil Guard has celebrated that the Court has ratified the sentence to five of the aggressors, but has criticized that the process has taken more than seven years to resolve. "That delay has translated into benefits for the convicted and added suffering for the victims,” said the vice president and national spokesman of IGC, Daniel Fernández. “Civil guards cannot be exposed to collective aggressions and then accept partial sentences. The lack of means to identify all those responsible is a structural problem that requires an urgent solution,” added the representative of the professional association after learning the text of the sentence.
“We demand that the State subsidiarily assume the compensation in case of insolvency of the convicted. The reparation to the injured agents cannot depend on the economic capacity of those who attacked them,” Fernández claimed.
At the same time, IGC has demanded image recording means that avoid impunity.