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The majority union of the National Police, Jupol, on Thursday presented a complaint against the top police officers responsible for the riots in Barcelona. After the week of serious altercations that took place in the Catalan capital, all police unions severely criticized the device for the high number of injuries.

The complaint, which must still be admitted for processing, is directed against the two senior officers of the body: Francisco Pardo, general director of the Police , the political chief; and José Ángel González, the operative deputy director , the senior police officer.

The complaint, filed in the Courts of Instruction of Barcelona and to which this newspaper has had access, accuses the two heads of the CNP of a crime against the rights of workers and another of injuries due to imprudence. Jupol considers them responsible for the fact that 283 CNP agents were injured during the street altercations that began on October 13 in the streets of Barcelona following the sentence of the process.

According to Jupol, since the police dome was not planned, no means were given or the reserve agents were activated when it had to be done, and the passage of ambulances to certain areas to attend to the injured was prevented.

The complaint tells of a chaotic situation in which the agents ran out of means, recycling riot gear, relays waiting for orders that did not arrive , ambulances that did not access "war zones" ...

Device

Interior decided to send about 3,000 CNP agents to Catalonia in anticipation that protests that could unleash the sentence of 1-O overflowed to the Mossos . These agents belonged mostly to the Police Intervention Units (IPU, or riot police), and Information services.

The chronology that follows the complaint explains that about 200 members of the IPU initially faced the first riots, and another 350 were activated waiting to support them, and "all this taking into account that the above described were in the hotels hundreds of other police waiting to intervene. " We must also add about 300 civil guards who had also deployed.

However, Jupol says, "the decision was made not to carry out the necessary relief or personnel reinforcements," and "they were not equipped with the necessary material to deal with the aggressions, even having to collect riot material from the ground in periods of less intensity for their own self-defense. "

As for the vehicles, the complaint explains that it was decided not to send the water-throwing truck to the riots , when the Mossos did use theirs authorized by the Coordination Center, and that could have resolved the conflicts before. As an argument, they add that no mosso was seriously injured, while there were at least four serious police officers . In addition, they denounce that they did not want to send the other special vehicles that the IPU has: the BMR 6x6 and the Uro Vamtac, armored vehicles for dangerous situations.

Old material

The riot gear, they say, became scarce so much that in addition to picking it up from the ground to reuse it and keep it for worse moments, it was necessary to go to the Junquera free zone to search in a warehouse in case there was old or discontinued material that could be used.

For Jupol, the large number of injured agents is the result of an "erroneous or non-existent risk assessment" , "an inadequate allocation of human and material means" and "actions to correct previous failures that were not taken in a timely manner".

"The decisions that were taken, such as preventing access to health services to evacuate the injured , could aggravate the result of the injuries," the union adds.

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