On June 23, an agent of the Badalona Urban Guard, who answers to the initials I.S.M. Hours before the festival, he went to a supermarket in the Màgic Badalona shopping center and stole several packets of packaged ham, for which he was intercepted by members of private security and reported. In parallel, the commands of the Guàrdia Urbana have opened a file on him.
The agent agreed to the Mercadona supermarket and took two packets of ham that he hid in his pants. An action that a security guard perceived, according to El Periódico, went towards the boxes with the intention of leaving without paying, for which he was intercepted and referred to the security room to be searched. There, the agent returned the ham but tried to escape, which the guard tried to prevent, who was beaten.
Given these facts, the municipal government of Badalona does not want to interfere in what they consider to be events outside of the agent’s job functions, although they believe that this type of behavior is incompatible with the exercise of the police profession. With the final sentence, a disciplinary file will be opened based on what is agreed by the Human Resources department.
