The Albuñol Policia Local, all six of them, are upset with the ex-Mayor, whom they accuse of having placed and removed fines as it took his fancy… is nothing sacred!

Together with the ex-Mayor, Juan María Rivas, the disgruntled ‘Half Dozen’ have also denounced the Councillor for Citizen Safety for “usurpation of functions, document forgery and abuse of authority.”

They claim that no fewer than 80 fines have been suspended because the ex-Mayor and Councillor “couldn’t find evidence of wrong doing,” even though the person fined hadn’t even questioned his fining. In fact, in some cases where a fine has been issued and paid, the ex-Mayor or Councillor had ordered that the money be refunded. We’re talking about when he was Mayor, of course.

But it doesn’t stop there, because there have been fines made, signed by “officer 5,000.” There only being six policeman, one can safely deduce that ‘Officer 5,000’ doesn’t exist, unless ‘Officers 7 to 4,999’ were passed over.

According to the municipal policemen, ‘Officer 5,000’ is in fact the Mayor, who had been out with his camera, snapping shots of cars that he considered needed a jolly good fining! In fact, the then Mayor, when questioned by an opposition councillor in a Plenary Meeting about who ‘Officer 5,000’ was, he answered, “He’s a camera.”

So what does the ex-Mayor have to say in his defence? His conscience is clear, he says, and it will be a judge who will have to decide.

(News: Albunol, Costa Tropical, Granada, Andalucia)