Sunday, 2 November 2008

Spanish Officials - A dissapoinment ?

Getting back to the old wound called "being robbed" I just thought I would bring you up to date on my efforts to raise the issue of the useless teenagers with guns in Ibiza, also known as the Guardia Civil. I went to the considerable trouble of writing to two officials on the Island in an effort to get someone to actually investigate and then once they had investigated and arrested a few suspects actually looked to see if they had anything that resembled our lost precious possessions. This forlorn hope of mine has clearly not happened!

So, I wrote to the Directora Insular de Ibiza y Formentera, Dna Sofia Hernanz and the Capitan de Cuartel de la Guardia Civil de Ibiza, Captain Rafael Rosique Colom initialy in English, because I was not able to find a translator. In any event I thought that two people occupying such senior positions in the Island Government would be able to speak some English or at least enough to understand the letters. So after two months of silence from them I decided, rather wickedly to write to them again but this time using the Google translation tool with some adjusting where the translation was obviously stupid. Here we are now some three weeks on and still nothing from either source not even a letter to say "thanks we got your letter".

This illustrates to me not how busy they are but how little they care about foreign nationals living in their country and how little interest they have in be helpful.

I have nothing further to say about them that won't land me in a Spanish gaol!




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