"The first thing I did was call the hospital, when I found out about the issue, to inquire about that person," said the mayor of Tinajo in statements to Radio Lanzarote this Wednesday about his actions after learning that two civil guards had been attacked in La Santa. The mayor responded in this way to the spokesperson of the AUGC, Juan Couce, who last Friday criticized that Jesús "had not worried" about the agents and that, however, he had visited the family of the person arrested for the beating.
"And what do you know about who I have spoken to and who I have inquired about?" Machín asked Couce, pointing out that his colleague, "who handles the security issue, spoke with the captain, although I don't know if he didn't know anything until that moment because it was recent." "And I have asked the head of the Tinajo Police" and "I have spoken with friends I have in the Civil Guard and they gave me the information," the mayor of the municipality defended himself. "I have spoken with the people I had to speak with," he added.
"I don't know why they have been upset, I don't know what's going on, something doesn't add up to me there," Machín declared, assuring that he finds it "a total and absolute lack of respect that the union representative says that. And I don't want to mix all the civil guards," he stressed. "I find it regrettable," he pointed out, because he has "always" been "very collaborative with the Civil Guard, especially with the one in San Bartolomé, as mayor, as a person, as an individual." "And I will always do it, because I am very grateful," he emphasized.
"If they know about a party, it is their obligation to act"
Regarding the 39-year-old man arrested for the beating of the agents in La Santa, Jesús Machín has again stated that "he is a very good person." "This poor boy, to whom this happened," according to the mayor, "is a very noble person." However, Machín has pointed out that "under no circumstances is what the neighbor has done justified, with or without reason" and "who releases him is the judge, because he has determined what he has to determine, or what he understands."
Regarding the private parties that the AUGC denounced were held after the La Santa festivities, the mayor of Tinajo has also spoken out. "If they know that there is a party at every step there, their obligation is to act," he stated, assuring that he is unaware "and the police are unaware that there are parties at every step there."
Finally, Jesús Machín has revealed that two weeks before the La Santa festivities, "there was a problem in the town of Tinajo with a neighbor and two local police officers, with the Civil Guard with them, they had to end up in the hospital." "But no one has called me," the mayor declared, "and I am not going to be upset about that." Regarding the situation in which those agents find themselves, he pointed out that "one of them is fine and the other has not yet returned."
