In addition to being an officer of the National Police and historian, Jorge Avila stands out because he does not bite his tongue in front of the recorder. With a de rigueur coffee in the center of Madrid – he asks for it with ice, since the heat is already stifling – he mercilessly destroys one of the most widespread myths of this body: the date of its foundation.
If the tendency is to affirm that the ultimate antecedent of unity is the creation by Fernando VII of the General Police of the Kingdom in 1824 by means of a Royal Certificate, he leaves the marked lane. “That was an ominous and repressive institution that was dedicated to oppressing liberals. It shouldn’t be our founding milestone there. In addition, it was modified a thousand and one times », he explains to ABC. …
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