Shouting "No to beatings", workers at the Tahíche prison gathered this Tuesday at the gates of the penitentiary center in protest at the "brutal" police aggression suffered by officials from the Seville prison of Morón de la Frontera last week. In the strike, which lasted for 15 minutes, the workers of the Tahíche prison have also requested the resignation of the general secretary of Penitentiary Institutions, Ángel Yuste,
It was the ACAIP, CCOO and UGT unions who called a 15-minute strike this May 22nd, in all penitentiary centers in Spain, in a sign of "repudiation" for the police action, which took place on May 17th within the framework of the mobilizations that the unions had called to demand equal pay between the penitentiary centers of Spain
In a joint statement, the three unions denounce that, "despite having all the communications and authorizations, the Ministry of the Interior, through the Security Forces, tried with the disproportionate use of force and applying an incomprehensible and intolerable brutality, to prevent by all means the protest concentrations from being held, which, by the way, always had a peaceful attitude by all the demonstrators"
"That brutality and the disproportionate use of force has been seen by all of Spain, since all the media have broadcast the images of the police hitting with batons, kicking and punching brutally and indiscriminately the prison workers, who peacefully were only occupying the space where we had authorized the protest concentration", add ACAIP, CCOO and UGT.
Several dozen colleagues "injured"
According to the unions, the "greatest expression of that exaggerated brutality" was experienced at the gates of the Seville prison of Morón de la Frontera, "that even in the preparations for the concentration, the security forces literally went to indiscriminate baton blows against all the workers", "injuring several dozen colleagues, with very serious blows directed to the head of the people, with a very clear intention of causing physical and permanent damage, as seen in the images of the workers with their heads completely bloodied".
ACAIP, CCOO and UGT point out that a colleague had to be "hospitalized as a result of a savage action", after receiving "a tremendous and impressive blow with the baton in the right eye literally bursting it".
"Our colleague, four days after the events, continues to be hospitalized without being able to have a diagnosis that guarantees that he will recover his vision, since he currently has it completely lost in that eye", they stated in a statement sent on May 20, in which they announced the call for 15-minute stoppages for this Tuesday in all penitentiary centers and in the Secretariat of Penitentiary Institutions "in support of Daniel, to show the unanimous desire for a speedy and full recovery and to show the total and absolute repudiation for the brutal action of the Ministry of the Interior through the security forces".