A judge has just decided that the Mayor of Otura (just south of the provincial capital) is not guilty of making death threats against a refuge collector, during a rubbish-collection strike in October of last year.

Mayor Ignacio Fernández was in the company of Local Policemen, a Guardia Civil patrol and Civil Protection volunteers, when he came across the striking rubbish collector, Cristian Valero Fenández in the early hours of the morning. He was not alone.

Suddenly, according to the Mayor, the striker together with other companions, started offering insults etc, he refrained from responding – which the Local Police confirmed. Therefore, it was false that he had threatened to kill somebody during the incident, the judge considered.

The Mayor claims that the person who accused him of this is closely related with an independent political group within the municipality. He also announced that he was going to sue the refuse-collector who had falsely accused him.

This is the forth time that the Mayor has been denounced of one thing or another and the fourth time that he has been acquitted. Hmmm… Sounds like somebody we know…

(News: Otura, Granada, Andalucia)