He central event of National Police Daywho had the presence of the minister Fernando Grande Marlaskain the Plaza de España in the Andalusian capital, had its intra-history. For two issues that caught the attention of the few people present.
On the one hand, the absence of a public able to freely attend the parade even if it was behind some fences and, on the other hand, the speech veto of the president of the Junta de Andalucía, Juanma Morenowho chaired the event alongside other authorities such as the mayor of Seville, Jose Luis Sanz.
As this newspaper was able to confirm, when Juanma Moreno confirmed his presence invited to intervene as representative of all Andalusians. The appeal, from the Council, was transmitted to the media this Tuesday late afternoon.
Initially, the ministry agreed on the condition that did not exceed five minutes of intervention. That is why his team prepared him a text of this length in which he praised the work of the Corps with which he should have closed the event according to protocol.
However, he was unable to read it because this morning The ministry denied its interventionaccording to sources from the Andalusian Government, and that they respected the initial sequence planned with the interventions of the minister and the director general of police, Francisco Pardo.
All this, 24 hours after Juanma Moreno met the president of the government, Pedro Sanchezin Moguer to inaugurate the CEUS project. Both took advantage of their interventions to emphasize the need to understand each other in the midst of the debate on regional financing and They called upon the spirit of Doñana after the pact made a year ago.
However, after the interventions and the applause, Moreno and Sánchez separated and participated in separate groups without mixing and with a serious gesture, until Moreno himself went to meet the president to tell him review the facilities.
Public participation
Concerning the absence of the public, only guests were able to entermainly relatives of the winners, and journalists, but the security measures were imposing. An hour before the start of the demonstration, a police access control had been placed around the square, more precisely at the Citroën bar.
Great Marlaska He arrived there by car and, once there, he was accompanied by the Secretary of State for Security, Rafael Perez; the government delegate in Andalusia, Pedro Fernández; the advisor to the presidency, Antonio Sanzor the president of the Provincial Council, Javier Fernándezamong other authorities.
The event, celebrated on the day of the patron saints of the Los Santos Ángeles Custodios Police, consisted of the presentation of decorations, a tribute to the fallen and parades of different units of the Corps.
During his speech, the minister praised the work of the National Police which makes Spain “one of the safest countries in the world“, with a crime rate maintained since 2022 at 48 offenses per thousand inhabitants, “one of the lowest in the European Union”.
Thus, in the face of “lies that harm our coexistence”, the data, affirms the head of the Interior, show that the volume of foreigners residing in Spain has increased by 1%, according to the National Institute of Statistics. While the rate of conventional delinquency “decreased by 6.1 points over the same period”.
In his subsequent statements to the media, Marlaska referred to the Andalusian capital. Specifically, ruled out that in Seville there is a problem of lack of National Police agentsas highlighted by the city’s mayor, José Luis Sanz.
Thus, Marlaska assured that in Seville there are “eleven percent” more agents than in 2018. However, this is not what neither the Seville City Council nor the unions defend. Both agree to demand that Marlaska assign more agents to the city, because the staff, assure the two sources, is less than what was planned.
