With a corridor of applause and recognition. This is how Francisco Márquez Salaverri was fired from the Botafuegos jail. Until a couple of days in the past, director of the middle with greater than 40 years of service in Penitentiary Institutions and 16 on the head of the Algeciras jail, referred to as the ‘narco jail’.
This Monday, he collected his issues and toured for the final time a gallery that has been full of dozens of officers and staff who haven’t hesitated to indicate their assist. “The recognition that others deny him, the squad provides him,” clarify a few of his former teammates who didn’t need to miss the chance to dedicate this well-deserved gesture to him, after a dismissal that has not been with out controversy.
Visibly affected, unable to articulate a phrase and along with his hand on his coronary heart, the historic director has walked the hall of affection that his employees confirmed him. Quite a lot of emotion contained among the many staff of probably the most controversial prisons in Spain.
Recognition of the STAFF to the Director of the CP of Algeciras, not too long ago relieved of his place by way of a telephone name from @IIPPGob.
40 years ponder him.
The recognition that others deny him, the squad provides him.
Because he deserves it.# sosprisiones pic.twitter.com/ojfxggTVpm
— CP SOTO DEL REAL. Your abandonment can KILL me (@Tu_Abandon_SOTO) February 20, 2023 Fired by telephone for “lack of belief”
It was final Thursday, February 2, when by way of a telephone name from the Secretary of Penitentiary Institutions, Ángel Luis Ortiz, he was knowledgeable of the choice made by the Ministry of the Interior, alleging “lack of confidence.” All after a yr wherein the middle has been the protagonist of a number of altercations, such because the burning of a number of vehicles of officers and their households, and wherein Márquez Salaverri has proven “whole assist” for the employees, to which he got here to ask to not be intimidated
Suicide makes an attempt, riots, assaults on officers who ended up within the hospital on account of concussion or assaults with drones carrying medication and cellphones, are different critical incidents which have led the particularly “distinctive” heart on account of its location close to Morocco. by the kind of crime and the kind of prisoner in custody.
Unanimous assist of the unions that speaks of “humiliation”
For this purpose, the unions Acaip (Association of the Corps of the Administration of Penitentiary Institutions), CSIF, Comisiones Obreras and UGT have wished to ship a message of joint assist to the person they think about “an establishment” contained in the jail and who has suffered what What a humiliation. “We are fed up with the truth that, as an alternative of fixing issues, scapegoats and culprits are sought to cover the ineptitude and ineffectiveness of the General Secretariat’s administration,” they denounced in a press release despatched to the media, wherein In addition, they describe as “indecent” the way in which wherein the dismissal of Márquez Salaverri has been communicated.