Estíbaliz Palma, hitherto chief commissioner of the National Police in Pontevedra, has been dismissed hours after an audio was leaked to eldiario.es in which she is heard saying: "Some women would like to be raped by riot police". She made this comment while talking about the Spanish police's intervention during the 2017 Catalan Independence Referendum, during a lunch in tribute to an officer of the Vigo riot police, forced to retire as a result of the injuries he suffered on when on duty on that day.