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Spanish Woman Fined for Posting Photo of Illegally Parked Police Car

posted by cmn32480 on Tuesday August 18 2015, @09:51AM   Printer-friendly
from the next-time-send-it-to-the-chief dept.

BK writes:

According to The Guardian:

The unnamed woman, a resident of Petrer in Alicante, south-east Spain, posted the photo on her Facebook page with the comment "Park where you bloody well please and you won't even be fined".

The police tracked her down within 48 hours and fined her.

Apparently, this is allowed in Spain so that police can "avenge their dishonor".

This is exactly the sort of behavior that leads to public distrust of police.

FakeBeldin writes:

This story is a new take on online liberties in Spain:

A woman in Spain has been fined €800 (£570) [$886] after she took a picture of a police car parked in a disabled bay. She fell victim to a controversial new gagging law in the the country that prohibits 'the unauthorised use of images of police officers that might jeopardise their or their family's safety or that of protected facilities or police operations.'

Spanish story (more elaborate) here

I'd add a snarky comment here, but everything I came up with is just trolling.
Summing up my feelings: Spanish police: SRSLY, WTF?!

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by FatPhil on Tuesday August 18 2015, @12:29PM

    by FatPhil (863) <{pc-soylent} {at} {asdf.fi}> on Tuesday August 18 2015, @12:29PM (#224381) Homepage
    Thank you for addressing the fining of the woman for posting a photo. Everyone else seems to be obsessing about police officers parking, which is almost irrelevant. If the police officers were doing their public duty, then there should be no problem with the public photographing them. And simple freedom of speech issues should mean that you can say anything non-slanderous about the officers with no fear of punishment. This quite frankly is a travesty.
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