The State Attorney General’s Office has tried to suffocate the controversy generated by (the devices that the victims of sexist violence and their aggressors carry when judicially decides a remote order) and that caused, as expressed in the annual report of the agency, “potential unprotective of the victims” and “a large number of provisional dismissals or acquittals of aggressors.” In a note published on Thursday afternoon, the Prosecutor’s Office has clarified the claims of the memory, and stressed that “the victims were protected at all times, because the devices worked.”
The Prosecutor’s Office explains in his note that “there were specific problems due to the migration of data that affected criminal proceedings”, after the awarding of the service changed from company. “The information required by the courts could not be obtained in a specific period of time, but we insist that the device worked correctly,” explains the note.
What happened, according to the memory of the Prosecutor’s Office, is that for a few months the movements of these men with surveillance devices could not be known before March 20, 2024, when the migration of data ended with the new winner. Neither Equality nor the Prosecutor’s Office clarifies how long that impossibility of knowing the records of men subject to surveillance or how many cases the error was lasted.
“Most of the cases in which data could not be provided were subsequently resolved, since the provisional dismissals were reopened once the data is recovered,” the Prosecutor’s Office defends in the note published today. “It should be noted that, in any case, these judicial procedures refer to the crime of brokenness and not to the crime of violence that motivated the installation of the device. On the other hand, the report of the Comet Technician is not always the only instilling evidence, there may be other probative elements.”
The Popular Party has claimed on Thursday the resignation of the Minister of Equality, Ana Redondo, by. Redondo, on the other hand, has minimized the scope of the problem and has estimated in approximately 1%, the cases that have been affected and that have caused dismissals and acquittals.
In 2023, the award of the service changed the company – of Telefónica, which subcontracts with direct securitas, to the UTE (Temporary Union of Companies) between Vodafone and Securitas. In that transition there was a ruling in the dating of one provider to another that caused that the movements of these men could not be known for “a few months of 2024 ″, says the State Attorney General’s Office in its annual report, prior to March 20 of that year, when the migration of all the data ended. According to the Fiscal Ministry that ruling was a“ potential unprotection of the victims.
The telephone company states that today, in equality they have “all the information and historical data of all previous years.”
On March 20, 2024, the migration of the information information ended; and of the government against gender violence, there were then about 4,500 active devices. “The problem is resolved from practically January of this year,” said the minister. Regarding the number of dismissals and acquittals that the ruling has been able to cause, that the Prosecutor’s Office values ”a large amount” in its annual report, Redondo wanted to minimize it: “We handle a very small number. A number that does not reach 1%.”
In a press conference in the Senate, the PP spokeswoman in the Upper House, Alicia García, has accused the ministry of having incurred a “criminal irresponsibility” by ignoring “for so long such a serious warning” about the incidents that the bracelets had. “Whoever puts sexual predators on the street must resign or ceased immediately,” said the president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, in the social network X, in which he recalled that “women were unprotected with the law of yes is yes.” The State Attorney General alerted
Feijóo’s words arrive after María Ángeles Carmona, then president of the Observatory against domestic and gender violence – an organ assigned to the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) -, has affirmed this Thursday in The confidential that alerted the minister of this risk 20 months ago and that the CGPJ even refused to sign a protocol that endorsed that new equality service.
The minister has indicated that they were “technical errors” derived from the change of company awarded the service. Redondo has affirmed in the interview that he will be in contact with the Prosecutor’s Office to know his perspective and also recalled that the follow -up bracelets and the data of the Cometa system belong to the Ministry of Equality and that, in addition, the “has improved” program with the current winner.
The Unified Police Union (SUP), in a press release, has remarked that for “four months” the bracelets worked in a “poor” way. “This situation left numerous victims and hindered the work of the National Police, preventing the crowded with the evidence that these systems usually provide,” they denounce.
The telephone 016 serves the victims of sexist violence, their families and their surroundings 24 hours a day, every day of the year, in 53 different languages. The number is not registered on the telephone bill, but you have to erase the device call. You can also contact via email and by WhatsApp in the number 600 000 016. The minors can go to the telephone of the Anar 900 20 20 10. If it is an emergency situation, the telephones of the National Police (091) and the Civil Guard (062) can be called at 112 OA. And in case of not being able to call, the alertcops application can be used, from which an alert signal to the police with geolocation is sent.
