A Scottish tourist caused problems on a plane that departed from Glasgow to Lanzarote last Friday. For this reason, the crew had to call the Civil Guard to come to the plane and identify the passenger who was disturbing the peace.
A couple of agents in a patrol car went to the aircraft. "As soon as they asked for documentation, he headbutted an agent, knocked him to the ground, for this reason they proceeded to subdue him and arrest him," explained the spokesperson for the Unified Association of Civil Guards union in the Las Palmas Delegation, Juan Couce on Radio Lanzarote - Onda Cero.
The Civil Guard officer stated that the tourist addressed him and his partner with insults such as "whore police", "bastards I'm going to kill you all". In addition, after the aggression, the officer had to take medical leave.
The detainee's father handed the agents the passport. After that, the problematic passenger was taken by ambulance to the hospital. "Once there, the patrol no longer takes charge of the detainee because other members proceed to the transfer, custody, and instruction of proceedings," Couso indicated in the morning show Buenos Días, Lanzarote.
The Civil Guard officers who acted were summoned to court on Sunday at 9:00 in the morning for the celebration of an expedited trial for the aggression that one of them had suffered.
After locating a lawyer on Saturday afternoon to represent the agent and in the middle of Holy Week, this union provided service. "The surprise is enormous when once they take a statement [from the agent] and they were waiting to ask the detainee questions and there is no detainee, he does not appear, and that is when they realize that he has been released," Couce added.
The AUGC spokesperson denounces that "we do not understand how a tourist who does not have a known address in Spain and comes for at most a week of vacation, is released for such a serious crime as an attack on an agent of authority."
The aggressor has not yet been located, and the union does not know if he is still in Spain or if he has already returned to Scotland. "If he leaves Spain with the impunity of having hit a Civil Guard officer," he pointed out.
"What the lawyer who assisted the colleague told us is that when the police report was delivered, the detainee was not there, and we have been informed that there was no order for release," the spokesperson highlighted. For the moment, the union does not know who gave the order to release the tourist who had been detained and was being held in the hospital.
The celebration of the expedited trial that the accused did not attend involved the mobilization of agents in Tías and San Bartolomé to look for him. In addition, justice officials, the judge, the prosecutor, etc. have been mobilized. "We are endangering the principle of authority that the agents have, so if I hit an agent and then I am not even convicted, I leave the country and nothing has happened here, then the situation we are left in is not the best," he insisted.
Thus, Juan Couce has taken advantage of his intervention on the air to request that the agents of the Civil Guard and the National Police be considered high-risk professions. This would imply that an agent could retire at 60 years old with 100% of the pension. "Few professionals go to their job and get headbutted as soon as they arrive," he highlighted.