“IU takes advantage of any police act to try to deepen social division”

Izquierda Unida criticized this Wednesday the exhibition of historic cars and vans of the National Police that is shown in the Plaza del Ayuntamiento de Logroño until Sunday. The reason for his displeasure was that, in his words, it included “vehicles used to repress anti-Franco demonstrations and detain those who confronted the Franco dictatorship.” “It represents a true nonsense and an act of tribute to the repressors instead of honoring those who bravely faced the dictatorship, many of whom gave their lives for democracy and freedom in our country,” added the IU Logroño coordinator. , Eunate García, through a note.

The reaction from the National Police, which is celebrating its 200th anniversary, has not been long in coming. This Thursday the unions CEP, JUPOL, SPP, SUP and UFP of La Rioja have expressed their “most absolute rejection” of the previous statements since they describe the display of police vehicles as an “apology for Francoism.”

“They are intolerable,” they indicate in a writing, because they understand “that they have been carried out out of the hatred and resentment of a political party that takes advantage of any police act to place a speech that only aims to deepen the division of society.” .

The vehicles that can be seen these days in the Town Hall square “are part of the history of the National Police, of the Spanish automotive industry itself and of the memory of our country,” they remind Eunate García. “What’s more,” they insist, “we want to remind Izquierda Unida that many of our colleagues lost their lives in vehicles like those on display, murdered by the terrorist group ETA, such as Corporal José Antonio Barrado.”

For the National Police, the demonstrations by Izquierda Unida “are nonsense and a real lack of respect, not only to the deceased colleagues, but also to the relatives of the victims and to the police institution itself.”

From the National Police they show their discomfort because IU, “a party with parliamentary representation” has to be reminded that “it must ensure respect for the work of the State Security Forces and Corps” since they believe that it uses them “for partisan and “He tries to link us or associate us with other political formations with which he wants to confront.”

Finally, they encourage the formation to “with the same determination that defends the democratic memory of this country, condemn and reject the acts and demonstrations in which the murderers of the terrorist group ETA continue to be honored when they are released from prison.”