15 Mar, 2018 @ 13:30
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Policeman suspended WITHOUT PAY in Catalunya for completing reports in Spanish

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A POLICEMAN in Catalunya has been suspended without pay after filling out reports in Spanish. 

Mossos d’Esquadra, the region’s police force, is preparing its case against the officer for his ‘lack of consideration and respect’ towards his superiors.

According to El Mundo, the unnamed officer was reprimanded by the squad sergeant for repeatedly filing case reports in Spanish.

This went against an internal memo from several years earlier, which told all officers to strictly use Catalan.

The Mosso officer refused to write in Catalan after being called in by his seargent, and instead called in three colleagues to hear their opinion.

He went on to call the ban on using Spanish ‘illegal’ and ‘arbitrary’.

The events took place in October 2016, but the case has just been opened against the ‘defiant’ officer, who is currently serving a 16-day suspension without pay and could face more time out of work.

“He created a hostile environment with his defiant behaviour, and his demands and arrogance lasted for some time,” the formal complaint reads.

But his lawyer argues that it’s just an attempt to distract from his client’s ‘opposition to illegal orders’.

The Mossos d’Esquadra’s official language regulations states: “The use of Catalan may be normal or common, even preferred…but never exclusive”.

Laurence Dollimore

Laurence Dollimore is a Spanish-speaking, NCTJ-trained journalist with almost a decade’s worth of experience.
The London native has a BA in International Relations from the University of Leeds and and an MA in the same subject from Queen Mary University London.
He earned his gold star diploma in multimedia journalism at the prestigious News Associates in London in 2016, before immediately joining the Olive Press at their offices on the Costa del Sol.
After a five-year stint, Laurence returned to the UK to work as a senior reporter at the Mail Online, where he remained for two years before coming back to the Olive Press as Digital Editor in 2023.
He continues to work for the biggest newspapers in the UK, who hire him to investigate and report on stories in Spain.
These include the Daily Mail, Telegraph, Mail Online, Mail on Sunday and The Sun and Sun Online.
He has broken world exclusives on everything from the Madeleine McCann case to the anti-tourism movement in Tenerife.

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