All the controversies of Marlaska in Interior: dismissals, approach of ETA and the fence of Melilla

• Courts The Supreme Court annuls the dismissal of Colonel Pérez de los Cobos ordered by Minister Marlaska
• Interior PP and Cs demand the "fulminant dismissal" of Marlaska for promoting the "illegal" cessation of Pérez de los Cobos

Of the 17 ministers with whom Pedro Sánchez was photographed in June 2018 after winning the motion of censure, only half a dozen have survived all the government crises, large and small like Monday's. Fernando Grande-Marlaska is one of them, despite the long list of conflicts he has starred in as interior minister in his almost five years in office.

IMMEDIATE APPROACH.

Within two months of taking office, Grande-Marlaska, who had become known as

uez for its hardness against

ETA

in the National Court, the deactivation of the policy of dispersion of prisoners that the President of the Government had agreed with the left began.

. The minister completed the operation last Friday. Along the way he left a medal of honor that the

He agreed to withdraw him "by acclamation".

The demonstrators of Ciudadanos had to leave escorted from the LGTBI Pride 2019 demonstration.

JAVI MARTINEZ

SUSPICIOUS REPORT.

In July 2019, representatives of Ciudadanos were rebuked and assaulted at the gay pride demonstration. Hours earlier, Grande-Marlaska had criticized Cs's participation, equating it with Vox. The police report aligned itself with the minister and ruled out crimes. With the suspicion that the police report had been manipulated to defuse the controversy, the party turned to the Prosecutor's Office. The Public Ministry did see the crime of coercion with ideological discrimination, but had to file the matter to verify that, despite the abundance of videos of the events, the Police had not identified anyone.

FINES CANCELLED.

During the state of alarm, Interior imposed more than 600,000 sanctions for breaching the restrictions. He did so despite the fact that the State Attorney's Office had warned that it was not possible to apply the Citizen Security Law and that the fines would be null. Grande-Marlaska insisted on using the gag law and, indeed, the courts began to annul the fines, until the Constitutional Court ended all of them at once.

LIST OF DISMISSED.

The command of the National Police responsible for Occupational Risks warned from the first stages of the pandemic that gloves and masks had to be used. He ended up dismissed, accused of leaking an Interior document that showed little interest in taking action. Marlaska also dismissed the head of the UCO

, which had revealed the lack of funds for the operation of the unit. In that case, the Supreme Court endorsed the decision, unlike what happened now with Diego Pérez de los Cobos, removed for not having the minister informed of a politically sensitive case in which the judge asked for confidentiality.

DEAD IN MELILLA.

At least 23 migrants died in June last year when they tried to force their way into Melilla. Marlaska flatly denied that there had been any deaths in Spanish territory. Later reports suggested that Moroccan agents had been in charge of dragging those who had died on formally Spanish soil to their side of the border crossing.

KICK IN THE DOOR.

In June 2021, the minister supported in Congress the actions of police officers who had entered without judicial authorization a home where a party was held that did not meet the capacity limits. The minister's arguments – that this was not a home, but a place for parties – were deactivated in the judicial investigation and the sub-inspector whom the minister supported is going to sit in the dock for trespassing. The episode evoked the law of the kick in the door that opened the hand to the police entrance in the homes and ended up taking the minister ahead

.

The General of the Civil Guard Francisco Espinosa Navas, accused in the 'Mediator case'.

E. M.

A GENERAL IN PRISON.

It is not usual for a division general of the Civil Guard to be arrested, but that is what happened with

in the

. Despite the fact that from his years in the Canary Islands many were suspicious of his behavior, the command was appointed head of the EU's security project in the Sahel. Today he awaits in prison to clarify his performance in the plot, in which he would have taken advantage of his privileged position in the Civil Guard to do business.

'CASE CUBARLES'.

The Mediator case offered many ends to pull and one of them led to the heart of the Civil Guard. One of the businessmen who surrounded the imprisoned general was being investigated for a multitude of reforms in barracks awarded at the suggestion of another high command,

, then Deputy Director General of Support. Interior argues that the investigation was stopped with the PP in the Government. It thus counteracts how the case is currently: paralyzed after a year waiting for the Interior to appoint the experts claimed by the judge to certify the irregularities and advance in the investigation.

The general director of the Civil Guard, María Gámez, announces her resignation at the head of the Armed Institute.

EUROPA PRESS

THE DIRECTOR LEAVES.

On the 22nd, the director of the Civil Guard,

, announced his resignation by surprise. Her husband had just been called to testify as accused of corruption in one of the branches of the ERE case.