Toledo. The delegate of the Government of Spain in Castilla-La Mancha, Milagros Tolón, has presided over the event organized on the occasion of the Day of the Victims of Terrorism in the National Police, in which recognition and gratitude towards the victims of terrorism of the Corps, and the obligation to keep alive their memory and their memory.
The Superior Police Headquarters in Castilla-La Mancha has hosted this emotional event, presided over by the delegate of the Government and the Superior Police Chief of Castilla-La Mancha, Javier Pérez Castillo, in which a tribute has been paid to the 188 agents who have been killed in Spain in terrorist acts between 1968 and 2015.
“The memory of your comrades and companions is alive today more than ever in our hearts, as is the pain of their families, whose lives were broken by reason of unreason, fanaticism and barbarity,” said the delegate in her address, in which she also had a memory “of the agents who were injured and suffer the consequences of the attacks.”
Rule of Law
Milagros Tolón has stated that terrorism “has always had among its objectives the National Police and the other State Security Forces and Bodies.” Faced with violence, “the Spain born of the Constitution of 78 has equipped itself with the tools to respond from the Rule of Law and the moral, judicial and police authority that our Constitution grants us”
This response has been based on four pillars, said the delegate, “truth to know who the victims were and who the executioners were; justice emanating from police action to subject terrorist criminals to the rule of law; memory to not forget neither the victims nor the suffering of their families, and dignity to always keep in mind and extol the figure of the police who lost their lives or were injured in terrorist attacks.”
For Milagros Tolón, “a society that considers itself modern, democratic, egalitarian and just cannot turn a page or forget the struggle of those who gave their lives heroically to protect our rights and freedoms. That is what we are doing here today and that is the goal of this day of remembrance and homage.”
“Our rights and freedoms are a threat to fanaticism and authoritarianism; and you and you, the national police, form our first line of defense,” he continued, reiterating “our gratitude and our recognition as a society.”
Commitment of the Government of Spain
Milagros Tolón has referred to the “commitment of the Government of Spain” in transferring that gratitude to an improvement of human and material means. In this regard, he pointed out that in Castilla-La Mancha there has been an 18% increase in staff in the last six years and the Council of Ministers has just approved a public job offer that includes 2,707 National Police places for the whole of Spain.
He also referred to the new Cuenca Police Station, “which we are going to inaugurate on the 27th”; the Puertollano Police Station, which will become operational after the summer or the new GEO base in Guadalajara, whose works will begin next year.
“The National Police is essential in defending our democratic values, an institution that belongs to everyone and that serves all the men and women of our country. Today we pay tribute, recognition, memory and memory to all those who sacrificed the most valuable thing we have, which is life, so that Spanish society continues to enjoy those rights,” he concluded.
Police of Castilla-La Mancha
For his part, the Superior Chief of Police has referred to the deceased officers who were linked to Castilla-La Mancha, such as Inspector María José García Sánchez, the first female police victim of ETA, whose family origins were from the Toledo town of Plum.
Along with her, he has appointed Juan Antonio Bueno Fernández, curator, born in Maranchón (Guadalajara); Lucio Rodríguez Martín, officer, from Toledo; Miguel Castilla Martín, officer, born in Mocejón (Toledo); Agustín Ginés Navarro, officer, born in Viso del Marqués (Ciudad Real); Félix García Alonso, officer, born in Robledo de Corpes (Guadalajara); Luis Antonio Rodríguez García, officer, born in Valdepeñas (Ciudad Emilio Real)
“On behalf of all members of the National Police, we reaffirm our commitment to continue fighting terrorism, of whatever kind, and to keep alive the memory of those who gave their lives for a safer and freer country,” said the senior chief.