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Barely a year ago, months after the start of the vaccination campaign against Covid-19, the agents of the National Police and Civil Guard in Catalonia denounced that the Generalitat had immunized almost all mossos of Squadron while they waited for their dose.
The clamor among the State Security Forces and Bodies was unanimous, and they took the government of Catalonia to court for discrimination. Now the Supreme Court has just given them the reason.
The High Court has The inadmissibility of the appeal filed by the Generalitat against the ruling of the TSJ of Catalonia, in which the exclusionary treatment of the regional Executive with the National Police and the Civil Guard during the pandemic was confirmed.
The Supreme Court, in a ruling to which EL ESPAÑOL has had access, ensures that the treatment of one and the other agents was totally different. In the eyes of the Court, the resolution of the Catalan TSJ against the Generalitat contains “solid reasoning -evolution figures, difference dates and rate of vaccination, effects of the precautionary measure, etc.- to reach the ‘conclusion that The regional Administration did not have the same will and commitment in the health protection of the national bodies’“.
Like the previous sentence, the Supreme Court judges agree with the lawyers of the police and civil guards. “Together with this delay, there is also a total lack of initiative in the Autonomous Administration regarding the attention to the national Bodies”. And this is how the Chamber reaches the conclusion that “the regional Administration did not have the same will and commitment in the health protection of the national bodies with respect to the inmates.”
“unfounded” explanations
The Supreme has considered “unfounded” the explanations that were offered at the time from the Catalan government. The JUPOL union, majority in the Police Council, has shown its satisfaction with the resolution of the Supreme Court.
It was they who filed an appeal in April 2021. They denounced in it how their colleagues in Catalonia continued to wait for immunity when in other areas of Spain they began to offer them the second dose.
Thus, at the end of last March 2021, of the 3,500 Civil guards in Catalonia only 200 had been immunized. As for the nearly 3,300 agents of the National Police, only a hundred. Therefore, only 4% of the agents had received the vaccine. Meanwhile, 80% of the Mossos d’Esquadra He had already been immunized.
After waiting for weeks for their doses, the last straw that broke the patience of the agents was the decision of the Ministry of Health to suspend Vaccination of agents under 60 years of age.
The Catalan Generalitat evaded its responsibility in such a way that the Ministry of Health decided to take charge of the campaign. In three months – from February to the end of April – they had barely granted immunity to the troops.
Thus, Health announced that it assumed las competences derived from Catalonia in the vaccination campaign after registering some police and civil guard immunization percentages well below the Spanish average. When this decision was made, the figures handled by the unions showed overwhelming data. At that time they had only been vaccinated 545 police officers out of more than 3,800 of the workforce in Catalonia and just over 600 guards among 3,500 troops stationed in this autonomous community.
From JUPOL they state that the judicial resolution “makes us stronger and pushes us to continue fighting so that the inequalities and discrimination of the National Police and the Civil Guard in Catalonia disappear, it represents another step in our fight to end inequality, the unfair and unfavorable treatment suffered by our colleagues in those areas”.
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