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The majority union in the National Police has filed a complaint against a dozen people, including Fernando Simón ; the delegate of the Government in Madrid, José Manuel Franco ; and the Secretary of State for Security, Rafael Pérez . Jupol attributes a crime against the rights of workers and prevarication , for not having provided adequate protection material against the Covid-19 and for having allowed concentrations such as those of 8-M that put the police officers who should have controlled them at risk.

The document registered in the Madrid courts is also directed against the director of the National Police, Francisco Pardo , the Deputy Operational Director (DAO) Jose Ángel González and the deputy directors general of Human Resources and Logistics. On the health side, along with the head of the Center for the Coordination Center for Health Alerts and Emergencies, the complaint extends to the Undersecretary of State for Health and the Director General of Public Health.

The complaint is in addition to the various filed already in the capital related to the coronavirus and which have suffered different fates. The court 51 allowed one process to where the delegate is charged and has already advanced to reports from the Civil Guard. Two other courts have inadmissible complaints against Simón and there is at least one other in which the position of Health appears as a defendant and is pending admission.

The police union complaint reviews the WHO's notices about the pandemic and recalls that, although some early first steps were taken in the National Police, that did not materialize later in the acquisition of sufficient material. "The anticipation with which the virus prevention and containment measures could have been taken is obvious. The appropriate material for these purposes could, and should, have been purchased, in the necessary quantities, since January, the date on which the logistics managers , like the other members of the National Police Corps, they knew of their need to contain the infections. "

He adds that "there are hundreds of requests for material for the protection of agents who, in a particular way and outside the formal channels of the Union, addressed their superiors in this regard before the declaration of the State of Alarm." And it relates a specific episode. The one that lived between March 9 and 20, 2020, the Madrid Operational Subgroup with the indication CAMEL-11, sent in a service commission to the La Junquera Police Station ( Gerona ).

Several of its members, who had had relations with Italian citizens, showed symptoms of coronavirus. They communicated to the superiors and finally they were confined in a hotel. There they shared symptomatic and non-symptomatic rooms, in addition to overlapping with two other groups of agents from Zaragoza and Madrid before being transferred to the capital to continue confinement in the Moratalaz police complex .

Without organization

"The foregoing shows that the lack of action of the defendants does not refer only to an unpredictability in the purchase of materials to prevent the spread of COVID-19. The absence of any type of organizational measure, limiting movements between

provinces relating to officials suspected of being infected, and duly communicated to the competent superior, exposed the agents involved in the transcribed communications, their families and their colleagues in Madrid, to a very high and inadmissible risk of infection. "

In another section, the complaint maintains that massive acts such as those of March 8 should never have been allowed according to the information that was available at that time. "It cannot be admitted, on the basis of any prism under which the subject intends to be examined, that on March 8, 2020, there were mere doubts about the inconvenience of allowing a concentration of thousands of people. Quite the contrary ... ] all the authorities were aware of the existence of compelling, imperative and scientific reasons, which not only discouraged, but demanded, that the authorities act to contain the spread of the virus. "

"Regarding the reasons that prompted both the Government Delegate and the examined bodies of the Ministry of Health and Interior, to deliberately ignore the recommendations of the health authorities, presumably they can be found in the nature of the concentration ", it adds.

Suspicious cessation

Logically, the participation of the National Police officers in the different mass events in the exercise of their functions, exposed them, as well as their participants, to a very high risk of contagion, which could easily have been dispensed with if they had attended the overwhelming warnings that were available on that date, "explains the letter.

If the complaint passes the filter of admission to process, Jupol proposes a multitude of proceedings. Among them, that of taking a statement as a witness to the head of Occupational Risk Prevention of the National Police until the declaration of the state of alarm, José Antonio Nieto González . This command already on January 24 had already submitted a report indicating the need to wear masks. "That recommendation was contrary to the government position recently recognized by Don Fernando Simón (not to recommend the use of masks because they lacked them). However, the anticipation and diligence with which Mr. Nieto González conducted himself in the exercise of his duties not only was it ignored by the senior management, but it could have been the real cause of her unexpected forced cessation, three months after her retirement, on March 14, 2020. "

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