The Supreme Court will choose the PP senator and former president of the Ourense council in January for driving at 215 kilometers per hour | Spain | EUROtoday

The Supreme Court has set for January 13 the beginning of the trial in opposition to José Manuel Baltar, senator of the Popular Party and former president of the Ourense Provincial Council, for allegedly driving 215 kilometers alongside a bit of the A-52 in direction of Benavente (Zamora). in April 2023, whereas presiding over the group. The listening to might be within the Criminal Chamber at 10:30, as reported this Tuesday by the High Court. A Civil Guard radar caught Baltar and some hours later two brokers stopped him and wrote a report. The now senator, who was driving an official automotive, paid the corresponding high quality of 600 euros (and the suspension of six factors on his license) via administrative channels, however by excessively failing to adjust to the permitted pace ranges, he was criminally reported. Initially, the judicial course of started within the courts of Zamora, however the case jumped to the Supreme Court this July, with Judge Ana Ferrer, after the accused was appointed senator and was licensed.

The Prosecutor’s Office is now asking Baltar to withdraw his driving license for one 12 months and pay 1,800 euros. The deputy must testify earlier than the choose together with different witnesses, together with the civil guards who ready the report. “The Chamber has declared related the proof proposed by the Prosecutor’s Office and the protection, which incorporates the interrogation of the accused, the testimony as witnesses, amongst others, of the civil guards who carried out the report and the documentation associated to the technical eye inspection report. of the highway, the diligence on the character of the cinemometer, the frames obtained with it, the metrological verification certificates, in addition to the report report for extreme pace,” indicates the order admitting evidence, also published this Tuesday.

The accused has argued in his protection till now that, having paid the executive high quality on the time, he can’t be tried and punished twice for a similar crime, which is understood in legislation as a not the identical factor twice. Baltar, via his protection, accuses the Civil Guard of altering the report and the radars of getting a margin of error of their computerized pace file.