A concentration called by the Unitary Feminism Space of Granada showed support in the afternoon of this Thursday at Plaza del Carmen, where the main headquarters of the City Council of this Andalusian city is located, for a neighbor and her two daughters as affected by the so-called Viogen case in which local police officers are being investigated for allegedly accessing and disseminating data from the victim protection system for gender-based violence. The organizers have expressed their «repudiation of the institutional actions» of the local government team, from the PP party, in the situation of this family.
This collective, which called the concentration under the slogan ‘Police harassment is institutional violence’ with the support of Platform 8M/25N, made reference to the investigation by the Instruction Court number 4 of Granada initiated following a complaint filed by this gender-based violence victim before the Civil Guard, who later presented a report on these events to the courts of the capital.
Among the local police officers under investigation is the one accused of gender-based violence against this woman, who is his ex-partner, according to information provided by the concentration organizers and the PSOE, which has shown its support for this protest, gathering around a hundred people in Plaza del Carmen.
The investigated officers would have violated «the Viogen system, at least 70 times, to provide data to their fellow officer accused of gender-based violence, to harass her, violating the right to protection and security of the victims included in this network,» according to the information provided by the organizers.
They have made a call for «repudiation of the institutional actions, including the City Council of Granada, which has ignored the victim’s request for protection,» and have accused the city’s mayor, Marifrán Carazo, of trying to «silence» the facts.
Also, on Thursday morning, the socialist group in the City Council of Granada addressed the Viogen case in a press conference. The PSOE councilor Ana Muñoz specifically denounced «the passivity» of the Equality councilor, Encarnación González, «who has not taken any measures for 15 days since the investigation was made public» to «seven local police officers for allegedly unauthorized access to the gender-based violence victim protection program to consult the file of one of the officers’ ex-partners, who has a restraining order against him.»
Muñoz regretted that in this context González has not convened the Local Commission of the City of Granada against Gender-Based Violence, a body that has not met since October 2023, nor activated the Prevention and Intervention Plan for Gender-Based Violence and Victim Assistance of the City Council.
According to Muñoz, this is «another example that for Carazo’s government, the fight against gender-based violence is pure posturing. They only move in slogans but when it comes to reality, they are nowhere to be found.»
«The victims matter very little to them, as they have shown on this occasion, where a victim has sought refuge and Carazo, without any shame, has decided to look the other way,» continued the socialist councilor.
On the other hand, Muñoz referred to «the great institutional efforts and campaigns undertaken to convince women suffering from gender-based violence that the solution lies in being protected within the Viogen system,» in which «a security breach has been opened that could have been avoided if Carazo» and the councilor of Citizen Protection, Ana Agudo, «had attended to the victim.»
«The fact that this woman informed the mayor and the Security councilor of her serious situation should have been a sufficient warning to provide her with a response and protect her, but unfortunately it was the opposite, so we demand that the Equality councilor stand by the victim and show the women of Granada whose side she is on,» she asserted.
REVELATION OF SECRETS
On March 26, the number 4 Court of Granada took statements from four agents of the Local Police of the capital in relation to the alleged commission of a crime of disclosure and discovery of secrets reported in this case.
The four agents, who are under investigation for the alleged commission of the aforementioned offense, appeared throughout the morning and all answered the questions posed in court by the parties, as reported by the Superior Court of Justice of Andalusia.