The Appeals Court in Granada has reduced the fine handed down to two municipal police offers in Almuñécar to just 600 euros from 2,700 euros.

An Almuñécar law court had found them guilty of a minor offence of bodily harm (with the aggravating circumstance of abuse of authority) and placed a fine of 2,700 euros, as well as 1,000 euros in compensation for the victim.

The officers appealed against the sentence before the Provincial Court in Granada, calling for it to be annulled, claiming that the matter had not been processed jointly with the ongoing case against the woman in her seventies for the alleged crime of disobedience to law enforcement.

The Appeals Court rejected this, noting that there is ‘no procedural rule or principle’ that prevents this “excessive police action” from being prosecuted separately. It likewise rejected the remaining arguments put forward by the officers. The judgment is final and no appeal can be made against. 

The incident took place on the 24th of May 2024 around 09.00h when a 71-year-old woman alighted from a local bus from La Herradura at the bus stop on the Carrera de La Concepción; i.e., in front of the fountain with the very large flag on it.

The bus had not been able to stop correctly in the allotted space as a patrol car was parked there. The woman had pointed out that the officers had set a fine example to other drivers over parking, addressing nobody in particular.

She said this just as the officers were walking out of the bar where they had just had breakfast and were being recriminated by several people at the bus stop for leaving their car there. They drove off but stopped at the zebra crossing where the victim was standing….

Continue reading on the link below for a full account of what happened.

Officer Found Guilty

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

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