Barcelona: an ex-footier covers his mother for fines

A police officer from Barcelona found himself found himself on Wednesday in court for an unusual case, says the daily “La Vanguardia”. He is accused of having attributed, in 2012 and 2013, three speeding made by his mother to two tourists.

At the headquarters of the Catalan government, the accused, an ex-member of the Mossos d’Esquadra, the Catalan autonomous police, went to the found items, where official documents lost by tourists are piled up. He seized two driving licenses, that of Christopher, a Briton to whom he attributed two of the speeding at the wheel of his mother’s Volvo, and that of Alice, an Italian, for the last fine. The ex-policeman even joined the file, to make “more true”, a photocopy of driving licenses where the two foreigners “self-infringed”.

“He may have thought that fines would never happen to their recipients, or that they would ignore them,” said “Vanguardia”. However, when Alice received the fine at her house, she was quickly able to prove that she had nothing to do with it. Already because she did not know the mother of the defendant, then because she never led a car to Barcelona, ​​taking only the metro or the bus during her stay, finally, and above all, because the day of the speeding that was put on her back, she had already returned to Italy.

If he is presented as a “good son”, the accused is not really a “good brother”. He tried to reject the fault on his sister, who at the time at the time frequented another member of the police. In addition, he tried to defend himself by specifying that the cleaning staff also went through the service of found items. The public prosecutor did not believe it and demands twelve years in prison.