Manel Sorribas, fourth deputy mayor of ERC and outgoing councilor for Finance, Internal Resources and Personnel of the Badalona City Council, once it was made public that the judge had filed the complaint filed against him by the union of police commanders, SICPOL, has issued a statement in which it accuses the leadership of the Badalona Urban Guard of using the complaint “to pressure or as revenge against my decisions.” The Republican mayor asks that those responsible for the lawsuit “leave, for dignity.”
The denounced councilor recounts in the statement that several officers of the Urban Guard used the SICPOL union “as a parapet to hide” after a criminal complaint for having paralyzed the collection of overtime “in a structural way” which meant a “covert and fraudulent” improvement of the salary of some bosses”. Sorribas made the decision based on a complaint from another police union and a report from the Municipal Intervention warning of the irregularities that he submitted to the Department of the Interior to initiate a Reserved Information to local commanders. An investigation carried out by the Mossos Internal Affairs Division in coordination with the Prosecutor’s Office.
Once the judge ordered the file of the case against the councilor, who urged that the alleged crimes committed by the police commanders not have a statute of limitations, the Republican politician declared in the statement that it is not normal for “a group of great power and responsibility” He can use complaints for his private interests, which he considers “an abusive use of criminal procedure” that is well known to the public servants of the Badalona police, whom he accuses of “wasting their resources trying to paralyze the City Council.”
Finally, Manel Sorribas, sends a public message to the leadership of the Badalona Urban Guard and asks those who occupy freely appointed positions to “leave, for dignity”. The councilor assures that he does not understand that these charges command an entity as important to the city as the Guàrdia Urbana. A group of people -he defines- who are “capable of putting their personal interests before legality and who try to damage the image, and even ruin the life of a councilor” who does his job. If these commanders do not leave – continues the mayor – he asks that the new government team maintain greater loyalty and the incoming government, led by Xavier Garcia Albiol, recommends that they “watch their back.”
