The Supreme Court (TS) confirmed the conviction of an inspector of the National Police of Valencia, JMMCfor attacking two local police officers after consuming alcohol Benidormin the province of Alicante.
Initially, the police officer was sentenced to three months in prison by the Criminal Court Number 3 of Benidorm as the author of an offense of attack against a law enforcement officer, in addition to being considered the responsible author two minor injuries.
But the convict appealed the sentence and the Alicante court reduces the penalty by eliminating the offense of attack against a law enforcement officer and partially granting his appeal in a judgment rendered last March.
Ultimately, the Court established that the inspector was responsible for a crime of resistance to law enforcement provided for and punished by article 556 of the Penal Code and was sentenced to a three-month fine with a daily allowance of 6 euros, “maintaining the rest of the judgments”.
Today, the Supreme Court rejected the last appeal of this National Police agent and the sentence is now finalas sources close to the resolution confirmed to EL ESPAÑOL.
The convicted police officer is one of those responsible for the Police Intervention Unit (UIP)also called riot control, and is the partner of the ultra shaker Cristina Seguifounder of the Vox party.
The aggression
The events for which the inspector was strongly condemned occurred on August 10, 2018 in Benidorm around 10:50 p.m..
That day, Benidorm local police officers carried out an intervention with the accused who was “on leave with two colleagues”.
Apparently, the patrol arrived at his location in response to a call from a taxi driver who was seeing “upset and threatened“by the inspector.
“Being affected by previous consumption of alcoholic beverages which diminished but did not nullify his cognitive and volitional abilities, they asked him to identify himself and the accused refused several times”, according to the Benidorm Court.
The accused claimed that he was an inspector of the National Police of Valencia and asked “the Local Police officer with whom he spoke to give him his badge number”, according to the account of the proven facts .
When the convict asked the officers patrolling the city of Benidorm for his license plate number, “he shook his cell phone until it collided with the police officer’s hand local, causing him to fall to the ground.
At that moment, “the accused, with the intention of physically harming him and in disregard of the principle of authority, threw himself at the local police officer, giving him a slap which also fell to the ground,” at that moment his companions intervened to reduce the now accusedusing the minimum amount of force necessary to do so.
As a result of these events, one of the local police officers “sustained injuries consisting of scratches on the right arm, a slap in the ear with an otoscope without internal tympanic damage and a bruise on the front arm”.
The second police officer suffered “injuries consisting of abrasions due to friction on the forearm,” the resolution states.
During the trial held in Benidorm, the taxi driver who suffered the violent behavior of the convicted inspector testified as a witness.
This witness gave “an account of irregular, discourteous, violent, unjustified behavior, of which he was then accused: insults and all”.
According to his testimony, “the accused was somewhat affected by alcohol, with low frustration tolerance (he cannot tolerate that the taxis, so numerous, do not provide service), and with poor impulse control.
