Madrid City Hall has opened a case against the municipal police who reported a non-existent article to the community of neighbors who had placed a tarpaulin with 7,291, the number of deaths in residences in the region during the pandemic. The security zone has opened an investigation and is studying whether or not it will take some form of disciplinary action against the agent, says Cadena Ser and was able to confirm this media.
The sanction was imposed last April, when the municipal police officer went with a colleague to a building located next to Elipa Park, where the Más Madrid party had displayed this advertisement. The banner showed a large number which refers to each of the people who died in residences, without having access to the care of doctors in a hospital, a number used by the opposition to recall its management of the pandemic by the regional president, Isabel. Diaz Ayuso. It was accompanied by the phrase “No. “They weren’t going to die the same way.” And then, smaller, “1,500 days since the shame protocols.” 7,291 people died in residences. 0 explanation.
Neighbors told Somos Madrid of the pressure exerted by the agents to remove the banner: “They told me that it was not legal, that it went against article 2.1 of the ordinance regulating the outdoor advertising. And they started writing the complaint,” said the president of this community, who was the one who helped the police on the staircase landing. “They assured that we were violating people’s right to honor and dignity, that there was no decision on the so-called protocols of shame,” he explained.
Municipal police officers also tried to pressure the community to remove the banner, according to neighbors: “They told us it was convenient for us to remove it because it could lead to an uncomfortable situation “, recalled the neighbors’ representative. which ensures that the agents even mentioned possible “reports of hate crimes” or the presence of the media.
Más Madrid reported the events to the Anti-Fraud and Corruption Office of the City Hall, as he considered that this police action went beyond the competence of the Madrid municipal police. He then assured that the body had been used in a “partisan” manner. The deputy mayor, Inmaculada Sanz, also responsible for the security zone, then assured that Maestre was launching a “hoax” for this statement, which she described as a “total and utter lie”, in addition to qualifying the complaint as the “common stock” policy.
The standard of the controversy lasted ten days on the facade of the Elipa building. The Electoral Council forced its removal following a complaint from the PP, which considered that this banner and another with the same message displayed on Albufera Avenue contained electoral advertising. While the European elections had already been called but the campaign had not yet started, Maestre’s party was forced to remove the two paintings on May 10, 2023. At that time, the controversy sparked by the complaint against the police had caused his image to occupy the covers of many media. points of sale.
