A woman has been fined more than £500 for taking a photo of a police car which was illegally parked in a disabled bay in Spain.
The woman posted the image on Facebook with the comment: “Park where you bloody well please and you won’t even be fined.”
A spokesman for the police force in Alicante, south-east Spain, said the woman was fined because her post had questioned the “honour” of the officers.
Officers reportedly tracked her down from the Facebook post within 48 hours and fined her 800 euros (£570) under a controversial new gagging law banning photographs of police which might “jeopardise their or their family’s safety or that of protected facilities or police operations”.
The woman was open to a fine of up to 30,000 euros under the law, which came into force in July.
The spokesman said the officers parked in the disabled bay because they were responding to reports of vandalism in a nearby park.
