The Unified Association of Civil Guards (AUGC) asks that the agents assigned to the SIVE (Comprehensive External Surveillance Service) of Lanzarote "not be criminalized" for "not having known how to interpret or distinguish between the numerous echoes" detected on the afternoon of February 15 when a boat sank off the coast of Teguise, causing the death of 25 immigrants.
The AUGC states in a statement "its total and unconditional support for all civil guards assigned to the SIVE of Lanzarote and in the rest of the units that have a direct work with irregular immigration in the face of the news that has appeared in different media since March 1, in which the professionalism of these members is questioned".
The union considers it "fair" to remember the numerous interventions carried out by these members of the Civil Guard in which "innumerable human lives have been saved". It also assures that "the report that has been made public was carried out with the collaboration of the technician of the company that is in charge of the maintenance of the technical means of the SIVE, and to whom, even being an expert in the handling of the system, serious doubts were generated about the veracity of the echoes, as well as to the rest of the members of the aforementioned unit", after analyzing the traces of said echoes, the note concludes.
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