He Home Office the business manager will be fired National Police in Lleidaconvicted, in June 2003, for sexual harassment of a subordinateaccording to informed sources, told ABC. This is Commissioner Antonio José Royo Subías, 63 years old. … years old, whose appointment became effective on December 9, the date on which he took office, as announced by ‘Segre’.
It was the Gipuzkoa court that sentenced Royo Subías to a fine of 1,080 euros, as well as to compensate the victim with 3,000 euros, even though the sentence did not provide for any penalty of forfeiture. Thus, the commander, then still chief inspector, continued in the Corps, to be promoted to commissioner in 2017.
According to the proven facts of the judgment, which the Supreme Court ratified, the the harassment dates back to 1999while Royo led a Police Intervention Unit (PUI) group in San Sebastian, and harassed an officer shortly after she joined the group.
The judgment specifies that, since his arrival at the IPU, the command, alone and in the presence of third parties, began to ask him to “maintain sexual relations” with him. Thus, he told him that his incorporation had taken place thanks to him and that if he accepted his requests, he would ensure that he obtained professional improvements, such as “daily allowances for trips to other cities, more days of rest, permits and promotion facilities”. Otherwise, he told him, “he would become his enemy, with what that meant in the boss-subordinate relationship.” Among other things, “assignment to less good services”.
Today, after the uproar caused by this appointment, the ministry led by Fernando Grande-Marlaska decided to dismiss the commissioner, a few days after taking office.