The Ministry of Defense has demanded the cancellation of the agreement between the Desokupa company and a military association signed yesterday. The department headed by Margarita Robles affirms that, according to its legal advice, this agreement is void and demands its disappearance “due to the lack of legitimacy of the association and due to the very purpose of the agreement.” Defense warns that if it is not annulled, the Ministry will go to court.
The agreement was signed and announced this Tuesday with a video in which both Daniel Esteve, leader of Desokupa, and the president of the Troop and Sailor Association (ATME), Antonio Gómez, participated. An association that claims to be the third with the most members in the military field and that thanked Esteve not only for signing the agreement but also for taking time to serve them as he was a “very busy” man.
The agreement, as explained by the ATME spokesperson, was intended to train soldiers who wanted to work, above all, in the private security sector when they left the Armed Forces and sought their return to civilian life. “Appropriate training for reintegration into civilian life, or working in any type of security company, given that our profession is closely linked to security,” he said after accusing the Ministry of Defense of incurring “dereliction of duties” in this aspect.
The reaction of the Ministry led by Margarita Robles has been to demand the annulment of the agreement under the threat of claiming its nullity in court and opening a file against the association that has allied itself with Desokupa and its ‘Club’. The Ministry’s legal counsel, it explains in a statement, has examined the agreement and has issued a report “demonstrating the nullity of the agreement” for two reasons: “Lack of legitimacy of the association and due to the very purpose of the agreement.” .
Esteve’s company, after popularizing the ‘desokupation’ business in Spain, has focused its activity and promotion on what is known as the ‘Desokupa Club’: training in personal defense for citizens. A training that, according to Desokupa, even minors need to defend themselves against threats from “the street.”
Desokupa signed another agreement with the Unified Police Union (SUP), the professional group with the longest history within the National Police, to give its more than 30,000 members access to its self-defense courses. The Ministry of the Interior examined the agreement to, finally, archive the file it had opened without sanction or warning.
The Minister of the Interior calls the members of Desokupa “thugs”
Fernando Grande-Marlaska, head of the Interior, called this Wednesday the members of Desokupa “thugs and small-time pimps” during the Government control session, where he warned Congress that those who belong to this group “do not have “Nothing to do with the State security forces and bodies.”
The minister has thus responded to a previous intervention by the Podemos deputy Noemí Santana, who alluded to the presence of Daniel Esteve, leader of Desokupa, as a companion of the commissioner Víctor de Aldama during his statement before the Supreme Court this Monday and his statement on social networks moments before that the Government was going to “end the nonsense.”
Santana reminded Grande-Marlaska that his parliamentary group already warned the Government in August of the “danger of police unions signing collaboration agreements with a paramilitary group such as Desokupa” and warned that “the extreme right is going to take the lead.” ” and the “strategic alliances” of the right with “all the worst in the country.”
“What these groups that are ultra-oblivious to democratic values like is to make noise, to act, so to speak, as pimps and small-time pimps. It is the only thing that can go well for them,” the minister censured before emphasizing that the possibility of “inoculation” in the State security forces and bodies is “zero.”
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