The head of the Navy who dismantled Vox’s speech dwell: ships towards pateras will not be despatched | Spain | EUROtoday

The regulation of the ocean is above ideologies. The High Chief of Staff Admiral of the Navy (Ajema), Antonio Piñeiro, the best army place of the Navy, went out to the Palestra this Friday to talk clearly and, to Vox questions, deny the repeated claims of the Ultra formation for the Ultra formation in order that the armed forces block the paters. The Admiral General lied to Vox the sacred norm that governs for each sailor, civil or army. But he additionally wielded a pure human factor. In command of a ship, Piñeiro has been seen in conditions through which he has needed to prioritize between shipwrecked to get the best variety of individuals from the water, with out saving all of them of drowned.

In a protection discussion board, Piñeiro Javier Ortega Smith, councilor in Madrid of the Ultra Formation and the Law Lawyer, requested who directs the Navy since 2023 if the everlasting presence of army vessels within the waters of the Strait, Ceuta, Melilla and Canary Islands needed to be elevated “before the permanent harassment of foreign ships and pressures of the mafias of the traffic of people”. “I’m going to be very clear,” the Admiral General replied bluntly. “It is a mandate that says the law of the sea: the Navy, if a Cayuco is located in the sea, its main mission is to save people if they are in danger. And there is no more.” Before listening to Piñeiro, Ortega Smith had thanked the army for his “loyal service to Spain.” However, after his response, opposite to the Vox framework, the social gathering hinted in his social networks that the army has been influenced, and “easily”, by “the Sánchez government.”

But what Piñeiro mentioned, which has a profession of greater than 40 years within the Navy behind, is exactly that the rules to fight unlawful immigration do not need to go away the military, which is for different issues, however of politics, “of the government.” Although, in keeping with the brand new protection and area discussion board, organized by the New Player Economy – the army can and actually assist nations of origin of immigrants in surveillance work. The Admiral’s phrases, with out being the primary of a senior army place towards the claims of militarizing the struggle towards irregular immigration, ran like gunpowder in social networks, and that, says a educated supply of the Navy, “has not sat well on top.”

Born in Mugardos (A Coruña) in 1960, the army entered the Armed Forces in 1979. Five years later he rose to Ensign and received the gallons till Admiral in 2021 and Admiral General in 2023, together with his appointment – by the Government indicated by the Minister of Defense, Margarita Robles – to carry the biggest place inside the Navy. He is understood for his disciplined character, typical of a excessive army command, however those that have handled him additionally describe it for different qualities extra particularly his: they guarantee that he likes to talk clearly, with out gear, as he has proven this Friday earlier than the query of the extremely councilor. For his subsequent, he’s additionally an individual of monumental sympathy and nice dedication.

A companion very near him since his youth years on the Naval School of Marín (Pontevedra) Tilda of “Direct” and “Franco”, a function that reinforces one other supply consulted: “The frankness is what characterizes it.” As he has performed in the present day, “he does not avoid questions,” says this member of the Navy, who speaks properly of the character {and professional} standards of Piñeiro and provides that “it is not the typical lord who occupies a managerial position; it does not avoid controversies or has half inks.” In reality, about his type of directing the Navy (of the three armies, the second in variety of troops after land) says that it’s “completely different” to different ajemas. And he argues that “people are happy with him”, not solely as a result of the navy is understood down, however as a result of it has additionally gone by way of the operations command, the nucleus that directs the missions of the armed forces overseas. “It’s a good leader,” he concludes.

“Do not stab you in the back,” defends one other excessive army place. “He is a man who takes care of his people,” he provides. As a sailor, one other supply highlights that it is likely one of the ones that has been within the sea longer, and in addition “in all kinds of missions.” He sees it as “a team person.”

Piñeiro is tremendously anxious concerning the helpful lifetime of Harriers Americans of the Armed Forces, which can find yourself being Retirees At the top of this decade. And each time he has event he remembers that the Ministry of Defense should search for an alternate, as a result of – insists – the Navy can not run out of battle fighters. To that is added a problem: the brand new units that the Ferrolano army has a lot want Juan Carlos I, Navy’s badge and from which Piñeiro was commander, is simply too quick to permit typical take -off and touchdown units. Piñeiro fears that if there aren’t any substitutes quickly to Harriers —What, emphasizes protection, it could be handy to be of European manufacture to keep up the strategic sovereignty of the continent – the Navy loses status and, consequently, the nation it serves. “Spain has been strong whenever a strong armed one has had,” he normally repeats in his interventions. Under his management, Spain despatched a battle frigate in April, inside the framework of a multinational train, to the waters of the Indo-Pacific, a area of excessive geostrategic voltage particularly an ally just like the US.

The present basic admiral, married and with three youngsters, has been introduced into different worldwide operations through which Spain participated. It was destined within the Persian Gulf within the Desert Storm Operation, the good army marketing campaign headed by the United States in 1991 to expel Iraq from Kuwait, the small nation that had invaded a 12 months earlier. Under the command of NATO and within the waters of the Mediterranean, it additionally was a part of the lively effort operation, an enormous naval patrol deployed within the Mediterranean towards terrorism and the transit of weapons of mass destruction. Piñeiro is a specialist in Communications (1989), Naval Guerra (1999) and graduated within the Nato Defense College. Surface officer, his naval profession has been linked to floor ships, particularly frigates.

Piñero is aware of the human construction of the Navy completely, as a result of he has occupied positions associated to the personnel from 2018 till his appointment as Chief of the General Staff, two and a half years in the past. In these powers it has been to listen to the testimonies of army that “psychologically have been affected” after executing, regulation of the ocean by way of, rescue duties of naough migrants within the framework of the EU Sophia operation within the Mediterranean, which concluded in 2020 and was one of many operations that “has impacted” its “people,” he mentioned this Friday. He attests to this, for the “helplessness” that he felt “to have 250 or 300 people in the water, who do not know how to swim, who are going to drown.” “And you with a rib or two rib [lanchas neumáticas de casco rígido] in which you can put 10 or 20, and that you have to choose between one and the other knowing that, in the time you go and come back, the one you were going to collect is no longer … that is very hard. ”