The director of OKDIARIO, Edward Indapassionately defended the Civil Guard during his speech at the conference The current police model, organized by the Association of the Independent Civil Guard (IGC). “We will always defend you for your loyalty, your sacrifice and your sense of duty,” he declared in front of a room full of agents of the Armed Institute, in the noble hall of the Infanta María Cristina Residence, in Madrid .
The journalist recalled historical moments of the body, like the release of Ortega Lara – “when everyone gave up, even Baltasar Garzón, you kept going until you found him” – or like the performance during the floods of Biscay in 1983“while ETA mercilessly murdered you.” He also defended the role of the Civil Guard during the Catalan crisis of 2017, rejecting the term “piolins» used by the left and describing the agents as “scrupulous defenders of democracy and legality”.
Inda also remembered the terrible attack on the square of the Dominican Republicnear the conference venue, where twelve civil guards were murdered – many very young and others with children – and stressed the importance of keeping the historical memory of the body alive: “As a wise British man said, WHO peoples “If they forget their history, they are doomed to repeat it.”
In his speech, the director of this newspaper underlined a firm commitment: “count on us to defend your virtues, your work and your self-sacrifice. To disseminate and defend your claims. To be the permanent memory of your sacrifices. And from the first minute of OKDIARIO until the end of time: Long live the Civil Guard!.
Criticism of the Otegi law
Also during her speech, Inda harshly criticized the new law on citizen securitywhich he calls the “Otegi Law”, notably for the elimination of rubber bullets: “It’s really a shame.”a law that will allow your images to be disseminated with impunity and leaves you without fundamental deterrents.
In another passage of his speech, Inda launched severe criticism against the majority of media: “80 or 85% of the media and journalists in this country are left-wing, more precisely far-left. And if they canthey will come for you. “If a dilemma arises between an ETA member or someone from an anti-fascist gang and one of you, most journalists will always take the evil side.”
Inda recognized that he was not going to be “objective”. “I am not objective when I talk about the Civil Guard and I do not want to be. I will never be objective when talking about the Civil Guard. I’m going to be subjective. I say it here and I say it on television, in the newspapers and always, not just out of conviction. My great-grandfather was a captain of the Civil Guard and my great-great-grandfather “He also belonged to the corps,” he explained in the General Aznar room, managed by the Association Pro Orphans de la Garde Civile.
In a speech full of emotion and frankness, Inda highlighted the fundamental values of the armed institute: “You are loyal, austere people, with a sense of duty that any politician or civil servant would love. You have a spirit of sacrifice that many Real Madrid players would like,” he said, adding that these values ”100 years ago were appreciated in society, but today being loyal can be a bit less than being a spring“.
The journalist denounced with particular insistence the salary situation of agents: “A civil guard earns much less than an ertzaina. Even a local Malaga policeman earns 2,000 euros net, 500 more than any of you. Because? Are you working fewer hours? Are you risking your life less? Inda urged to demand concrete commitments to the future leaders of the Popular Party and Vox to complete wage equalization. “We need to give new impetus in this direction,” he said.
With Eduardo Inda, they spoke Daniel Fernández, vice president and spokesperson of IGC; Josema Vallejovice-president of A Police Force for the 21st Century; Juan Manuel Garcia, expert in behavioral analysis; Ricardo Magaz, professor of criminal phenomenology at UNED; And Irene TaberaInvestigations and Courts Journalist at OKDIARIO.
