The Court of Instruction Number 4 of Arrecife has declared complex the instruction of the case investigating the complaint filed by Seprona sergeant Gloria Moreno against three agents of this Civil Guard detachment in Lanzarote. This measure, which was requested by the Prosecutor's Office, allows increasing the instruction time of the procedure to 18 months.
The information has been disseminated by the AGM association, created by a group of people who were asking for justice for Gloria Moreno, after several internal files were opened against her and even a criminal procedure, in which she was finally acquitted.
For her part, the sergeant filed a complaint against three colleagues, whom she accused of dereliction of duty to prosecute crimes, for not having prepared reports for four complaints of animal abuse. One of them was for the dog King, which, like another, ended in conviction, while the other two were dismissed after finally reaching the Courts.
"Persecuted for doing her job", according to the association
"The situation was tremendous for Gloria Moreno as she was persecuted for doing her job in animal defense," say from the association, which recalls that one of the files that Gloria Moreno faced was for "informing animal shelters that the complaints they had filed with the Nature Protection Service had not been processed in the months in which she was absent from the unit due to maternity".
Once that file that was opened against her was closed without sanction, "promoted by Colonel Ricardo Arranz, former head of the Las Palmas Command, after a report issued by the captain chief of Seprona in Las Palmas, Germán García", Moreno filed this complaint against her colleagues in Lanzarote.
"In the complaint, in addition to the omission of mandatory completion of the reports, it is stated that the captain of the Seprona of Las Palmas, immediate superior of the sergeant, and aware of the facts, issued a report addressed to the colonel, former head of the Las Palmas Command, justifying the actions of the three civil guards accused and accusing the sergeant of a disciplinary offense", says this association in support of Gloria Moreno.
Two have already been sanctioned
In addition, he adds that "once the disciplinary file against the sergeant was processed and declared without responsibility on her part, two of the guards were disciplined with serious offenses for not processing the complaints, a third who did not process them was not sanctioned for this".
The four complaints that should have given rise to the reports were filed by two animal shelters in Lanzarote. Two of them ended in convictions, including that of King, a puppy who was "tortured and stoned by his owners", who were sentenced to three months in prison; while the other two were dismissed by the Court of Instruction Number 3 of Arrecife.
"The non-instruction of the pertinent reports by the guards, to which they were obliged by Law -specialty and demarcation-, was a fact known by the entire chain of command and several officers related to the files opened to the sergeant, but, however, they never brought the facts to the attention of the Judicial Authority", argues this group.