Spanish woman objects to excessive body search

[Perikles]

I find this article interesting because it looks like the police might have blundered. On the 16th of October a woman wanted to visit the Lower Chamber (Cámera Baja), and because her name did not quite match the list of expected visitors, the police on security duty were immediately suspicious. She was taken into a room where (according to her) she was effectively strip-searched in a manner which she found humiliating and totally unnecessary.

She made a formal complaint, the police made a report and denied that anything like that happened. The President of Congress believed the police and closed the case.

That would almost always be the end of any such incident. But the woman then applied in writing to the Comisión de Peticiones del Congreso for access to the videotape of the incident in the police room. What is striking about this is that this procedure hardly ever happens because it is an obscure and almost unknown piece of legislation. Every citizen has the right to do this and it appears that under the constitution the commision must comply with this request.

So now the police have denied any wrongdoing and they will be obliged to produce the tape. It seems hardly likely that the woman would have gone to these lengths if her version of events were not true.

The outcome might be interesting. It could well be that the police will regret treating somebody like that, especially when the victim happens to be a lecturer in constitutional law at the university of Alicante. 

[Guanche]

I suspect the tape will just 'disappear'!

[Janet]

Exactly what I said, or "oops we dropped it and that car just ran over it before we could pick it up ... " ...

[Myrtle Hogan-Lance]

Funnily enough I was thinking just like Guanche and Janet...

[El Profesor]

I suspect the tape will just 'disappear'!

Or whiped. Just like señor Bárcenas' computer discs.