A video captures the moment in which a police officer pushes a woman and knocks her down during a teachers’ rally in Valencia, provoking anger and screams from the rest of the protesters.
The National Police will open a disciplinary file against the officer who forcefully pushed a protester in the back during the teachers’ protests in Valencia on Sunday, according to police sources confirm. For her part, the teacher who suffered the attack has filed a formal complaint about what happened, as reported by the Government Delegation of the Valencian Community. Its top leader, Pilar Bernabé, already announced yesterday that they would investigate what happened.
Through X, Barnabas crossed out what happened “unacceptable” and assured that they would begin an investigation “to determine responsibilities.” A police union has used this same channel to snap at him that “the work of the Police is not tarnished”.
The video of the events has gone around the country through social networks. In it, you can see how a National Police agent, who has his head covered with a helmet, pushes and throws to the ground a woman who was walking backwards and who does not even defend herself from the attack because she was not expecting it. Faced with this event, the delegate pointed out that “protecting the right to demonstrate safely is above any circumstance” and therefore, she denounced that the attack “clouds the work of the Police in these three weeks of demonstrations.”
This Monday, Bernabé, and the subdelegate of the Government in Valencia, José Rodríguez Jurado, met with the unions calling for the strike STEPV, UGT PV and CCOO PV. During the meeting, the joint and coordinated work carried out during the first three weeks of the strike was discussed, in addition to the events that occurred on Sunday. In this sense, both the delegate and the unions have expressed their willingness “to continue working so that no other incident tarnish the exemplary work carried out to date, with the aim of guaranteeing the exercise of the constitutional right to demonstrate,” as highlighted by the Government Delegation.
The condemnation of the institutions has been more lax since the Government. The president of the Generalitat Valenciana, Juanfran Pérez Llorca, has also expressed his rejection, although he has focused on the actions of some protesters. “Let me first do is condemn any act that is violent, wherever it comes from. And criticize and question it.” those who are more focused on twitching“in stressing, rather than truly in fixing,” he declared this Monday before the prisoner.
