A man who has not stolen or cheated or assaulted anyone spend the next few months of his private life of freedom.
His crime, arguing with the boss.
In the XXI century, the anachronism of the application of the Military Penal Code to workers in the Civil Guard will lead, once again, an improper injustice of a democratic country and the rule of law.
Sergio, civil guard with twelve years of service and an unblemished record, enter Thursday in the military prison in Alcalá Meco to serve a sentence of four months.
His crime is the same as anyone can make a bad day at the office: a word with a superior.
Monday will be notified on the 14th Military Court Togado Cartagena admission to a military prison within 72 hours.
This is the result that workers remain subject to the Guardia Civil Military Criminal Code, a system that acts on the Civil Guards as a repressor mechanism in their working relationship to their commanders, as it prevents them access to independent justice to proceed opinions directly from the executive.
This results in quite disproportionate sentences, as now condemns Sergio, and that causes a situation that in any other area would not be considered nor an administrative offense, in this case determine the imprisonment of a young father honored dedicated their work to ensure the safety of citizens.
A conviction also that do not fit with the prison itself benefits would apply to the ordinary courts, for example, the non-execution of the sentence should not have background and if less than two years.
Sergio, married with a daughter about to turn two years, he joined the Corps in 2002 and is currently serving in the position of the Murcia town of Murcia, after working for four years in the Command Guipúzcoa, where the acts for which has now been punished as wrongly took place.
The Unified Association of Civil Guards (AUGC) denounced repeatedly applying the Military Penal Code in the Civil Guard, an issue that generates so hard facts to assume by the Spanish society that while the corrupt who have looted public coffers leisurely wander down the street, there are public servants who must enter into a military prison for having a discussion at work.
To AUGC, this situation is another cutting rights, an accumulation of errors and dereliction of duties by the Administration which allows a policeman
Source: AUGC