Decorate the Ventorro police officers
The Council of the Generalitat Valenciana has approved the decorations for police merit that it will award this year, a handful of medals, diplomas and honorary distinctions that will go to the police officers who, it is assumed, have done a better, or more outstanding, or more heroic job, within their obligation to serve the citizens, coexistence and the common good. Among the officers who will receive them are the bodyguards who accompanied the president of the Generalitat Valenciana, Carlos Mazón, on October 29, during the hours he was absent from everything while The Valencian Country was devastated by the DANA and 228 people died. The Generalitat personnel on duty that day will also be honored. According to the same police unit proposing the decorations, and according to the government that approved them, they performed a job worthy of applause and reward.
Today we still don't know exactly how long Carlos Mazón was locked in a private room at the restaurant. The Ventorro That tragic day, neither to do what, nor with whom. Mazón gave five or six different versions, and then became indignant, or made it clear, with anyone who dared to criticize him for being false. By not explaining, he never even showed the bill for that meal. It's legitimate to wonder, then, what the bodyguards were doing all those hours in the restaurant. What did they eat? They didn't have cell phone coverage inside that establishment either (as Mazón said in one of his versions). And above all, what was the outstanding or heroic work that worthy them, in the opinion of the police and the government, of a distinction that also has the character of a lifetime award. What exactly did they do that day to serve the citizens, coexistence, and the common good, which, as we have said, is their duty and obligation as police officers.
The awarding of the Ventorro police officers responds to the "if you don't want it, you'll get it" logic that the PP so favors. It's a recurring behavior of theirs: tributes to the corrupt, flattery to rulers or public representatives who have abused or misused power. The paradigm of this mocking and abusive attitude is Aznar, whom the PP constantly presents as the best president of Spanish democracy. We can find as many cases of him as we want, right down to these medals as unworthy as the actions for which they are awarded. When the spokesperson for the Valencian government, Susana Camarero (another survivor of the political storm of the DANA) said that this year's awards "also" include the Ventorro officers, she meant that they "above all" include these police officers. It's the defiant attitude that characterizes them when they feel strong, and Mazón feels that way now. One last note: citizens should have access to sufficient information about the officers of the security forces. It's not very presentable that, when they are involved in shady dealings, they can take refuge in the anonymity of a license plate number and an opaque and unhealthy corporatism.
