The christmas greetings of the General Directorate of the Police seems to be a statement of intentions. The director, Francisco Pardo Piqueras, congratulates this holiday season with the image of a girl giving flowers and hugging a agent to the gates of the Headquarters of Barcelona, while the other partner observes the scene, smiling. The chose “because it contains a human message, and professional,” he says.
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The city council asked the police to leave the police station in Via Laietana, The Government is open to finding an alternative to the police station in Via Laietana of Barcelona Flowers for the National Police in the field of battle
The police station in question had an enormous symbolic load during the serious riots in Catalonia in the week of the 16th of October. The Head of National Police of Barcelona, located at number 46 of Via Laietana, became one of the main targets of the street protests and the vandals. After the serious incidents, and as a response, there were people who took flowers to the agents to recognize their work. The minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, together with the director general of Police, Francisco Pardo Piqueras, went there to encourage the police, while some of their classmates were recovering in the hospital from the injuries sustained during the riots of those days. In the City of Barcelona raised the possibility of moving the police headquarters to another location and convert that building into a museum of the francoist repression. “That is like asking to move the Cibeles, the head is not going anywhere,” he said days after Francisco Pardo, when asked by reporters after a presentation. However, at the end of November, the Government appeared to be open to finding an alternative to that police station on Via Laietana,
In the back of the christmas card is included in article 104.1 of the Constitution: “The security forces and bodies, under the auspices of the Government, will have as mission to protect the free exercise of rights and freedoms and to ensure the safety of citizens.” Merry Christmas and my best wishes to 2020″, signature Pardo Piqueras.”It is an image of a double gratitude: the gratitude to the police officers that were there and the gratitude to the citizens who acknowledged their work”, explains the director, who says, “is as innocent as the girl in the photograph” and ruled out that it has “no political message implicit.”
That week of violence that followed the publication, on 14 October, the judgment of the procés forced to displace thousands of agents to Catalonia to serve as a support to the Mossos d’esquadra, who are responsible for public order, during the serious disturbances that took place night after night in some of the main streets of Barcelona.
The police action against what had happened the day of the referendum illegal on the 1 October, was seen as an example of coordination among bodies, including the Civil Guard. In the days before it had formed a crisis cabinet and a coordination center set, from the that designed the operating. Mossos police and appeared charging together against the vandals, nothing to do with the alleged deslealtades of other times. For a large sector of the citizenship of Catalan and barcelona police forces were the guarantor of its peace and tranquillity and the freedom of the exercise of their rights. For others remained the expertise of an oppressive State, which now in addition to looked supported by his police state, the Mossos, in a constant cross-fire of political and street.
For all this, the image chosen for the christmas greetings of the director general of the Police is not trivial, but carries a profound message implicit.
