General Directorate National Police dismisses state commissioner Santa Cruz of Tenerife, Luis Felipe San Martín Fernández-Marcote, for a complaint of ill-treatment filed by the chief inspector of the island’s National Police Whom the complainant has a business dispute with.
Woman Alleged victim of gender-based violence ensures December 2021 He was allegedly threatened by Luis Felipe San Martín with his old gun. in one of the “usual jealousy arguments”.
Additionally, to file a complaint with the Investigative Area of the Family and Women’s Care Unit (UFAM) of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, the woman allegedly appealed to the chief inspector of the National Police. He “encountered obstacles” in the incident he attempted at the security unit’s building in Gran Canaria.. The investigator who processed the complaint against Luis Felipe San Martín Fernández-Marcote has had problems with the defendant several times recently. research.
Formal complaint against the Santa Cruz de Tenerife state commissioner was filed at noon Wednesday, December 6 At UFAM facilities. The application was submitted by the chief inspector, who serves as head of the Provincial Judicial Police Brigade of the National Police of Santa Cruz de Tenerife and who allegedly had knowledge of the alleged ill-treatment in the performance of his duties.
He also explained in the above-mentioned complaint that the alleged victim needed assistance and support to make the complaint and decided to do so “as a moral, ethical and professional duty.”
It should not be forgotten that the chief inspector in question has had serious differences of opinion with the provincial commissioner in recent months. The reason is that the head of the Provincial Judicial Police Brigade was suspended from coordinating the so-called investigation. Mediator Case Written by: Luis Felipe San Martín Fernández-Marcote, Following a workplace harassment complaint against the head of the Provincial Judicial Police Brigade of the Computer Crime Squad.
However, after analyzing the case, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Madrid National Police did not find any irregularities in the behavior of the said chief inspector.
The command in question gave UFAM researchers a pen drive containing a video and a frame. This computer support, along with the audio-visual file and still image, was given to the chief inspector by the woman who claimed to be a victim of gender-based violence. This is a citizen of Lithuanian nationality.
Now, the judge of the Santa Cruz de Tenerife Violence Against Women Court to which the matter is involved must subpoena the above-mentioned woman to testify to see whether she approves of the above-mentioned statements and to determine other issues, such as the following. Why didn’t you report it before or why did you contact a third party? Another issue that the judicial authority should clarify is If the video provided is original or doctored, also the things seen and heard in it.
Allegedly, according to the complaint, the woman sent a WhatsApp message to the said chief inspector in mid-October, stating that her intention was to meet him in person in Tenerife and tell him about an alleged case of gender-based violence.
The meeting in question took place a few days later, and the former partner of the county commissioner in question reported that she was subjected to regular harassment from him. According to this statement, cases of gender-based violence occurred in 2021. However, the period when they reached their highest expression was December of that year.
The named individual states that he was threatened with a legal firearm by Luis Felipe San Martín Fernández-Marcote. “frequent quarrels due to jealousy.”
The affected person stated that he has been living in fear since the events in question occurred. And the situation worsened after he met again with the state commissioner at an awards ceremony organized by an association of friends of the security forces in Puerto de la Cruz. Allegedly, in the incident in question, the woman looked at the now accused provincial commissioner and perceived an intimidating attitude in him. She also said she sent him a WhatsApp message, but San Martín deleted the message before his former partner could read it.
He also stated that he experienced “panic and fear” because the person who was the subject of the investigation was a police officer and a provincial commissioner.
He is also afraid of Fernández-Marcote’s reaction if the judicial process begins, but he assures that he is ready to testify about his experiences if the judicial authority requests.
The video handed over to UFAM Investigators is alleged to have been recorded by the victim in December 2021 on Robayna street, Cruz de Tenerife, on one of the floors of the Santa Provincial Police Station, which the provincial commissioner uses for his duties. .
Regarding the video in question, the woman admitted to her interlocutor that she recorded the video without San Martín Fernández-Marcote’s awareness and that the “so-called author” was “under the influence of some behavior-altering substances.”
The day after the recording in question, the person in question stated that he had escaped from the control of the provincial commissioner on the pretext that he had to visit relatives in the south of Tenerife.
In office since 2021
Luis Felipe San Martín Fernández-Marcote At the end of 2021, he was appointed provincial chief commissioner of the National Police of Santa Cruz de Tenerife. Then-chief commissioner Ignacio Badenas entered after Gil de Reboleño retired. Fernández-Marcote served as head of the Las Palmas de Gran Canarias Citizen Security Brigade and state commissioner in Las Palmas.