The monumental storm that the Ministry of the Interior has caused in the Civil Guard -especially among the agents who monitor the fence of Melilla- with the sudden dismissal of the head of the city Command crystallized yesterday in the first reactions on the ground. «They have stopped it for wanting to protect us. It is shameful and incredible”, border civil guards claim to this newspaper.
Jesús Vicente Torresano was removed from the Melilla Command after staging his differences with the Directorate of the Civil Guard days weeks after being appointed.
According to sources from the Armed Institute, he wanted to implement specific instructions so that the agents could act under the law against migrants who attacked them in successive jumps over the fence and refused to open an information file on the civil guards who threw stones at the sub-Saharans who wanted to reach Spain on June 24. That episode resulted in dozens of men dead and 54 guards and police officers injured. From the Ministry of the Interior they maintain, however, that the departure of Torresano obeyed other criteria.
The cessation recommendation is signed by number three of the Civil Guard, the Operations Command (MOP) Félix Blázquez and by Lieutenant General Chief of Prosecutor and Borders Juan Luis Pérez. "He does not meet the necessary conditions for this position," the document resolves.
The discontent is manifest both in substance and in form. «The only thing the colonel has done is want to save security and order on the fence. He asks us for dignified treatment and protection », denounced the guards who guard her. In his opinion, the dismissal obeys, they say, "political criteria." «What they have done has no name. Minister Marlaska only wants related people ", they conclude.
Torresano expressed his disagreement with the fact that the Prosecutor's Office closed the investigation into the tragedy of the fence without charging some migrants who participated in the assault with assault on authority. The Public Ministry did not appreciate evidence of a crime in the actions of the civil guards who guarded the border perimeter, although it did leave open the possibility that the Interior could expedite the agents who threw stones in doubt that they could have incurred a disciplinary offense.
After expressing his discomfort and before his proposal to implement a protocol, the General Directorate required him. He was summoned to Madrid and met with the Deputy Director of Operations (DAO) of the Armed Institute, Pablo Salas, and the Lieutenant General in charge of the Border Command and Maritime Police, Juan Luis Pérez.
Sources familiar with that meeting assure that they gave him two days to rectify and put down his attitude. If he didn't, he would be fired. Torresano maintained his line and last Tuesday, the Official Gazette of the Civil Guard published the order proceeding with the forced transfer "for service needs" of the colonel to the Headquarters of Education, in Madrid.
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