Together for Catalonia, JxCat, Candidacy for Popular Unity, CUP, and Catalonia's Republican Left, ERC, approved this Thursday a vote in the Catalan Parliament on the withdrawal of the Spanish military police, called Civil Guard, from Catalonia. They form the absolute majority in the Catalan Parliament. The Catalan parties argue "it has been overtly shown to be a political police force which is focused on persecuting determined political and social groups, completely redundant when it comes to guaranteeing public safety". This comes after the force's arrests on Monday of nine pro-independence activists on charges including terrorism and rebellion.
The corps is seen by the majority of the Catalan population as a repressive paramilitary group who highly collaborated with the Fascist Franco's dictatorship. The Guardia Civil were employed in Spain's colonies or overseas territories. The guardia civil has been seen historically as a reactionary force.
On 3 January 1874, they stormed congress and ended the Spanish First Republic. During the first three decades of the 20th Century the paramilitary corps served frequently in the restoration of order remaining mostly loyal to established regimes. Thus, it supported the dictatorship of General Miguel Primo de Rivera (1923–1930) and the Franco's regime. The proportion of Guardia Civil members that supported the Fascist faction at the time of the 1936 coup was relatively high compared to other Spanish police corps where when the Civil War began over 70% of their members stayed loyal to the Spanish Republic. Republican sympathisers, have alleged numerous instances of police brutality because of the organisation's association with Franco's regime. The fact that the Guardia largely operated in mostly rural and isolated parts of the country increased the risk of police violations of individual civil rights through lack of supervision and accountability.
The involvement of Guardia Civil figures in politics continued right up until the end of the twentieth century: on 23 February 1981, Lt. Col. Antonio Tejero Molina, a member of the Guardia Civil, participated with other military forces in the failed 23-F coup d'état. Along with 200 members of the Guardia Civil, he briefly took hold of the lower house before the coup collapsed. In fact, the Official emblem of the military police was changed in 1943 to introduce the Fascist "fasces". Since then the emblem of the Spanish gendarmerie Guardia Civil includes a fasces. And none has never proposed to change it what explains that Spain continues linked to its Fascist soul nowadays.
The corps is seen by the majority of the Catalan population as a repressive paramilitary group who highly collaborated with the Fascist Franco's dictatorship. The Guardia Civil were employed in Spain's colonies or overseas territories. The guardia civil has been seen historically as a reactionary force.
On 3 January 1874, they stormed congress and ended the Spanish First Republic. During the first three decades of the 20th Century the paramilitary corps served frequently in the restoration of order remaining mostly loyal to established regimes. Thus, it supported the dictatorship of General Miguel Primo de Rivera (1923–1930) and the Franco's regime. The proportion of Guardia Civil members that supported the Fascist faction at the time of the 1936 coup was relatively high compared to other Spanish police corps where when the Civil War began over 70% of their members stayed loyal to the Spanish Republic. Republican sympathisers, have alleged numerous instances of police brutality because of the organisation's association with Franco's regime. The fact that the Guardia largely operated in mostly rural and isolated parts of the country increased the risk of police violations of individual civil rights through lack of supervision and accountability.
The involvement of Guardia Civil figures in politics continued right up until the end of the twentieth century: on 23 February 1981, Lt. Col. Antonio Tejero Molina, a member of the Guardia Civil, participated with other military forces in the failed 23-F coup d'état. Along with 200 members of the Guardia Civil, he briefly took hold of the lower house before the coup collapsed. In fact, the Official emblem of the military police was changed in 1943 to introduce the Fascist "fasces". Since then the emblem of the Spanish gendarmerie Guardia Civil includes a fasces. And none has never proposed to change it what explains that Spain continues linked to its Fascist soul nowadays.
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