Police and civil guards protest in Madrid for "a dignified retirement" and full salary equality with the Mossos

Agencies Madrid

Madrid

Updated Saturday, March 16, 2024-2:30 p.m.

More than 12,000 people, according to the Government Delegation, demonstrated this Saturday in Madrid to ask for the salary of National Police and Civil Guard officers to be equalized with the rest of the regional and local police, the same retirement conditions and the declaration as risk profession.

Shouting out

Marlaska's resignation,

the demonstration, called by the

Platform for a Dignified Retirement

, which brings together a dozen unions and associations from both bodies, ran from the Plaza de España to the Plaza de las Cortes, in front of the Congress of the Deputies, and has brought together 15,000 citizens, according to the organizers.

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"Today, here, to the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, we are going to make a show of force and we are also going to tell him that we are not going to stop until we achieve our demands," said

Juan Fernández

, spokesperson for the convening platform. , in addition to blaming the minister for "saying things in a parliamentary session, which he then does not comply with."

For his part,

Adolfo Molina

, also a spokesperson for the platform, has assured that the Government ignores them, since "they are incapable of wanting to negotiate", although he has stressed that they will continue trying to go "in the right direction."

The protest, in which hundreds of flags of Spain and autonomies such as Asturias or Galicia were seen, was marked by the noise of firecrackers, whistles and criticism of the Government.

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One of the main demands of the security forces has been that the State recognize them as a risky profession, since, according to these unions, it is a resource that is granted to regional and local police officers, as is the case of the Mossos d'Esquadra and Ertzaintza.

"We want to remember and tell the minister very clearly that we do not trust him, since last January he deceived us by saying that the amnesty law was going to protect, so to speak, the national police and, according to our legal services, we We are going to be left out," criticized

Ibón Domínguez

, spokesperson for the JUPOL police union.

The Vox spokesperson at the Madrid City Council, Javier Ortega-Smith

, also attended the demonstration

, who wanted to show his support "for those who defend and risk their lives" for the Spaniards "every day in the street."