The Spanish Association of Civil Guards (AEGC) denounced this Thursday in a press release that "assaulting" an agent "is cheap." In addition, it has described the prison sentences and compensation faced by aggressors when there is physical damage as "derisory penalties."
In a statement, AEGC indicated that the latest assaults suffered by agents in Lanzarote last weekend have resulted, after a quick trial, in a sentence that "makes it clear that assaulting a Civil Guard does not entail serious penalties for the aggressors." This was stated by the union after the information disseminated by La Voz in which the sentence of 859 euros for biting and assaulting three agents was revealed.
Specifically, the aggressor of the three agents has been sentenced to 20 days of fine, with a fee of six euros, for each of the three minor offenses of injury, and to compensation, for physical damage, which does not exceed 350 euros.
Action for gender violence in Costa
Meanwhile, the union has also revealed that there is already a court ruling in the case of the alleged abuser who assaulted three civil guards who intervened in a gender violence episode in a hotel in Costa Teguise.
In this case, the man has been sentenced to four months in prison for a crime of assault on an agent of authority, "which he will never serve," to 20 days of fine for a minor offense of injury and another 20 days for another minor offense of injury.
"As for the economic amount that the convicted person must pay to the three agents, in no case will it reach 1000 euros," they stressed from the union.
AEGC has indicated that "these sentences prove the Association right, which includes all jobs and ranks of the Civil Guard, when we insistently demand, although this executive continues to turn a deaf ear, that members of the Civil Guard should be considered as authority and not as agents of authority."
At this point, they have indicated that "the assaults that our colleagues have suffered this past weekend, if they had been suffered by a doctor or a teacher, would not have resulted in four months in prison, the sentence would have been much higher."
In addition, they have stressed that "these lenient penalties are behind the increase in assaults suffered by civil guards. It is clear that these sentences do not pose any risk to the aggressors. And even more so if they are foreigners, as is the case of those convicted for the events of this weekend, who will return to their countries without even paying the fines to which they have been sentenced."
Thus, they have highlighted: "That is to say, neither prison nor compensation." In AEGC they do not understand what "the problem that the Ministry of the Interior and the Government have to modify our consideration is. It is not understandable that, given the increase in assaults, they continue to ignore that there is a problem and that this has an easy solution, it only takes will, although in our association we have already verified that this is precisely what the Executive lacks."