SEVILLA, 21 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, has defended this Friday the replacement of the chief inspector of the Central Police Station of the city of Valencia, Ricardo Ferris, who in an act organized by Denaes and the Vox parliamentary group in the Valencian Community said that “practically all street crime is illegal immigrants”, some “serious” and “false” words, according to the minister.
The head of the Interior has referred to this change in a media session in Seville, where he has inaugurated the new National Police station for the Southern District, and to questions from journalists about said decision of the General Directorate of the National Police agreed this last Thursday in relation to the aforementioned Valencia inspector.
Fernando Grande-Marlaska has underlined that Ricardo Ferris “has already been relieved of his functions in a clear and conclusive manner, and without prejudice to the fact that the appropriate information file has been opened to purge all the responsibilities that proceed and with all the guarantees, as proceeds in the corresponding procedure”.
The minister commented that, “obviously, if this inspector has been relieved” “it is because of the seriousness of the demonstrations he made”, which, in addition to being “serious”, are “false” and involve “spreading hoaxes that are not correspond to reality”, as he emphasized before adding that, according to “official data, more than 70 percent of crimes” in Spain “are committed by Spanish citizens”.
In this line, Marlaska has denounced that the statements of the relieved inspector have “a slightly xenophobic aspect, minimally, in that sense”, and in any case “they are absolutely false and serious”, as he has insisted before emphasizing that what they are even more so “coming from a public official, from a national police officer”.
“If I am so blunt in this regard, it is because I am not going to allow a person like him to tarnish the reputation of the National Police,” said Grande-Marlaska, who has proclaimed in this regard that the “more than 70,800 men and women” who make up said body “are the opposite of that”, since “they express democratic values ??and, of course, they do not feel concerned by these serious demonstrations”, also carried out “in an act co-organized by at least one political party”, according to has abounded.
He added that these statements “call into question something that our police officers defend at all costs, which is political neutrality in the exercise of their functions.”
For all these reasons, the minister has defended that the words of the inspector in question have had “a timely and appropriate response, with all the guarantees, but the forceful and necessary response”, and this, as he has insisted, “in defense of the institution, of the National Police, which does not feel identified with those values”.
Along these lines, the head of the Interior has concluded that “if the National Police is at the forefront and is a benchmark for Spanish society, it is the complete opposite of that person’s behavior: it is because it represents us all, because it represents the democratic values ??that make us all much better”, concluded Fernando Grande-Marlaska.
