MADRID (Reuters) - Spain denied on Tuesday that it had sacked a senior police official as punishment for criticising the government during an investigation into a decision to approve a rally in March that may have helped spread the coronavirus.
A court is looking into the decision to hold the March 8 Women's Day rally in Madrid, which was allowed to go ahead just days before Spain went into lockdown to slow the spread of the virus. Some epidemiologists say the rally played a major role in spreading the virus, although the government disputes this.
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