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Surprise at the institutional act of awarding diplomas to 360 new Madrid municipal police officers held yesterday at the Caja Mágica in Madrid.

The mayor of the capital, José Luis Martínez-Almeida,

witnessed the request for the hand of a recently graduated agent

, Josua Carbonero, to his girlfriend Miriam, both 28 years old.

At the end of the institutional act, Josua met with six agents, with whom he was in cahoots, to take a supposed photo on the blue platform of the presidency.

At that moment, he called his girlfriend to tell her to take a portrait with him.

Next, Josua took the microphone of the public address of the act, knelt on the carpet,

took a ring from the upper left pocket and told his girlfriend in front of about 3,000 people:

"Miriam, will you marry me?"

Martínez-Almeida insisted to the young woman that she had to say "yes".

Finally, the curious moment ended with a positive response from Miriam while her partner put the ring on her and passionately kissed to a great ovation.

There will be a wedding although the couple do not have a date yet.

The mayor of Madrid applauding the couple after the request for a hand. RAFAEL ALBARRANA MADRID CITY COUNCIL

The agent explained that

since he began preparing the opposition, he thought that the best moment for the request would be the day of his appointment.

“I had decided that the day I graduated and had my peaked cap on I was going to propose to her,” Josua said.

«I asked the General Training Police station for permission and they didn't give me any trouble.

He told me that I could do it when we broke ranks and that I would join a group of colleagues on the platform, "he explained.

Miriam, an employee at a business school, said she knew nothing.

"We have been dating for four years and

I have always dreamed of this moment since we started dating

," says the young woman, a neighbor of Arroyomolinos.

Josua did an internship in Arganzuela and now his destination will be the district of Carabanchel.

He added, still with a shaky voice, that in none of his most risky moments as a police officer in training had he been as nervous as when addressing his girlfriend: "Today I can't be happier," he said while jokingly wondering: "

What I don't know is if I can invite so many witnesses?

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