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ISSUE NO. 1743
29 Nov - 5 Dec 2018
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Sacked top cop vindicated Credit: Twitter/Ayuntamiento de Velez Malaga
A COURT has ruled a former police chief who had been struck off can return to his position and be repaid any salary lost in the meantime. Esteban Torres had been Chief of the Velez-Malaga Local Police and an inspector in the National Police until February 2017 when a council vote of no confidence forced him to step down. A judge has now ruled Torres should be reinstated and backpaid the salary he stopped receiving more than 18 months ago. He had been replaced in the interim by Anderes Montoya de Hombre. The court explained Velez-Malaga Council has not been: “In any way competent to agree to the decision, since the power lay only and exclusively with the mayor.” The judge continued: “It is appropriate to declare the challenged decision null and void, and return the complainant to the position of Chief of the Local Police with the corresponding economic and administrative rights.” Following the ruling, Torres, aged 59, told one publication of his, “satisfaction,” at the ruling at what he considered an, “unfair and unjustified decision.” He had served as Chief of Police since August 2012, when he was appointed in a process organised by the then mayor, Francisco Delgado. Last year, Torres was dismissed after being forced to take responsibility for the actions of his own officers following an incident earlier that year. In the early hours of the morning, former mayor and spokesman for the Partido Popular, Francisco Delgado, had been involved in a car accident. Following the col-
Poison threat
Credit: Ayuntamieto de Velez Malaga
ESTEBAN TORRES: Pictured left with Francisco Delgado Bonilla, right.
LOCAL POLICE: In Velez-Malaga have their former chief back. lision, police did not breathalyse Bonilla but did test the driver of another car, who was found to be over the drink drive limit. When the incident became public, critics demanded an
investigation into why Bonilla had not been breathalysed too. The report concluded the behaviour of the police involved had been: “Correct, faultless, and within the
Rough justice POLITICIANS in Malaga have criticised the condition of Torrox’s court building. Members of the Partido Popular in Malaga claim the PSOE-led council in Torrox is suffering from, ‘burnout,’ and has failed to find a solution to the issue of the town’s courts, which have been temporarily housed in the records building. Patricia Navarro, the Partido Popular’s candidate in this Sunday’s Andalucian elections, said: “we are on the side of residents and professionals who are working in
crowded, terrible conditions, lacking in accessibility, and suffering from problems with leaks, humidity and stacked files.” Ms Navarro claimed the courts are currently housed in a: “Nineteenth century building that should be available to residents for public use, and not used as an improvised judicial headquarters for more than 20 years.” For his part, earlier this year Torrox’s mayor, Oscar Medina, criticised his opponents who he accused of thwarting his attempts to upgrade the building.
bounds of the law.” The officers involved maintained the politician had not been tested as he had not shown any signs of being under the influence of alcohol.
A DOG has been rescued by a vet after ingesting rat poison illegally put down in Almuñecar. The environmental wing of the Guardia Civil, SEPRONA, is investigating after an Almuñecar local laid the banned substance on his fruit farm. The 41-year-old had been hanging poison from his trees to prevent rats from eating his avocados. A woman was forced to rush her dog to a vet after she saw it eating two of the bags of poison while she walked it near the farm. Police began investigating after receiving a complaint from the dog’s owner, and after searching the farm, found 10 small bags of poison.