'Fake police' kidnap on AP-7, according to a tweet

A tweet denounces a kidnapping in broad daylight on the AP-7

A tweet denounces a kidnapping at 19:30, with plenty of light and at the edge of the asphalt on the AP-7. The recording that has circulated shows several individuals with police-looking vests subduing a person in the middle of the highway, and the scene has revived the discussion about police impersonation: the problem, if confirmed, is not that it exists, but how many seconds it takes a driver to realize that the person stopping them may not be a police officer.

What is seen in the video of the kidnapping on the AP-7

In the circulated video, one can distinguish vests that read “Cuerpo nacional de Policía” and an action that, according to those who have watched it calmly, has little to do with protocol. It remains unknown who the person approached was, whether the kidnapping was random or commissioned, and how it ended. None of that is closed as of today.

What the tweet that has circulated maintains: the approach occurred in natural light, in the middle of the afternoon. That opens an uncomfortable question: do you recognize a real police officer when you have one on top of you?

Were they real police? The doubt no one closes

There is no official confirmation that the perpetrators were impersonators. Some point out that the vests were textbook, and a forum user maintains that police impersonation in the Mediterranean stretch goes back decades, with cheap uniform material bought online. The cases cited as precedent come from far away: a forum user cites, without providing a link, cases of officers who rented uniforms in Guinea Bissau and Kenya.

Another current has diverted the focus towards security and immigration. The known data do not allow sustaining that relationship: there is no public identification of the perpetrators or their origin.

112, 091 and a highway with a history

Another point of friction: who to call. One current defends dialing 091, national police, before 112, arguing that calling the emergency service adds a step in the protocol. Against it weighs that 112 records and registers the call, which gives traceability. Some testimonies point to delays in the 112 medical response, an extreme that a single case does not allow generalizing.

With these ingredients, the only thing the disseminated tweet sustains is the time: 19:30, sun on the AP-7 and a recorded kidnapping. Everything else —who was behind it, whether they were officers or cheap disguises, whether someone called 112 or 091— remains open.