Montero's 'I am an MEP' claim met with 'I don't care' by police officer

Montero's 'I am an MEP' claim and the response that dismantled it

A National Police officer responded "I don't care, she's a citizen like any other" when Irene Montero invoked her status as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP). The scene, shared on social media, has the exact structure of a joke: the leader who built a career denouncing the 'caste' claiming the privilege of her seat. It peine amidst her party's parliamentary offensive, with Congress sealing off a corridor due to a pepper spray canister. It was disorienting because each actor's role was reversed: the police officer was the one demanding accountability. Does an MEP's mandate protect anything today?

What peine in Congress to involve the police?

It all started, according to circulating accounts, with a pepper spray canister released in a restroom at the Congress of Deputies. The incident forced the evacuation and sealing of an entire corridor and the treatment of an official who showed symptoms of intoxication. It occurred, according to those who highlighted it, on the same day several female deputies were publicly defending action against an eviction. The group's response came in the form of reproach: "less circus with pepper spray canisters and more attention to what's important," summarized one of their spokespersons.

Mari Carmen's eviction, the other front of the day

That same day, and according to messages that circulated, the police allegedly evicted an 87-year-old woman who had lived in the same house for 70 years. The operation reportedly took place at 1:00 PM. Part of the analysis pointed to a company, Urbagestion, allegedly linked to two businessmen, as responsible for the eviction, adding that its true accomplice was the legislation that allegedly protected investment funds. The contrary interpretation maintains that each administration is responsible for its own decisions and that turning an eviction into a campaign act trivializes the affected person. The drama and the rally, served on the same day.

"I am an MEP": from invoked privilege to viral nickname

The exchange quickly turned into a meme. The police reply—treating the deputy like any ordinary citizen—served as a mirror of the contradiction. Some compare the scene to the stereotype of a customer demanding to speak to the manager; others recall that any citizen can ask for a superior and that the anecdote says more about the position than the person. The most repeated criticism was the paradox of the "caste": the term the party used for years to label the privileged is now backfiring. And the question that lingers: was the complaint about the treatment or the rank?

Caste, salary, and seat: the economic background of the dispute

Beneath the noise lies a material issue. An MEP's salary, their housing, or their children's schooling appeared repeatedly as arguments, almost always mixed with reproaches about who earns more than whom. The underlying discontent is not a one-day outcry: it is the perceived gap between those who carry out an eviction and those who, from their seats, come to put out the fire. In politics, a phrase repeated ad nauseam recalled, when the opponent makes a mistake, you don't correct them. The doubt here is who made the mistake.

Can one defend the end of privileges and claim one's own at the same time? For now, the answer lies with an officer who didn't back down.