The Progressive Union of Prosecutors (UPF) issued a harsh assertion this Monday to denounce the “direct attack” in opposition to the “institution of the Public Prosecutor’s Office” that has been perpetrated, in its opinion, by Judge Ángel Hurtado by summoning the subsequent defendant to testify. January 29 to the Attorney General of the State, Álvaro García Ortiz, and two of his subordinates on January 30 and February 5. The affiliation – to which García Ortiz belongs and of which he was president – insists that the case of the investigating Justice of the Peace of the Supreme Court in opposition to the best consultant of the general public ministry constitutes an “authentic witch hunt”, which is predicated on an absence of abstract of proof and that ignores the “solid contraindications that should immediately lead to the archiving of this procedure.”
“The UPF expresses its absolute disagreement and perplexity over this accusation, which involves criminalizing the normal functioning of the institution of the Public Prosecutor’s Office,” emphasizes the be aware from the group, which in December already described the decide’s work as “clearly inquisitive.” Early this Monday morning, Hurtado set the date to formally interrogate García Ortiz as a defendant, accused of leaking an e-mail from the lawyer of Alberto González Amador, boyfriend of the favored Isabel Díaz Ayuso, president of the Community of Madrid. In addition, the Justice of the Peace has indicated that he’ll take an announcement as investigated from Pilar Rodríguez (January 30), chief provincial prosecutor of Madrid, who was already charged; and Diego Villafañe (February 5), lieutenant prosecutor of the technical secretariat of the State Attorney General’s Office, whom he places on the right track for the primary time.
“The investigation by the lieutenant prosecutor of the technical secretary and the summons to formally testify as investigated by the Attorney General and the provincial chief prosecutor of Madrid, far from arguing some incriminating evidence, is describing the normal and ordinary functioning of the entire institution” , continues the UPF assertion, in reference to the presentation that Hurtado makes in his decision this Monday. In his writing, the Justice of the Peace describes the change of messages that occurred between the members of the State Attorney General’s Office on March 13, after The World revealed distorted data that acknowledged that the general public ministry had supplied an settlement to González Amador to confess two tax crimes to keep away from him going to jail – though it had really been the opposite approach round, because the settlement had come from the lawyer of the boyfriend of Ayuso—.
The State Attorney General’s Office defends that these communications present that they set to work to dismantle the hoax by means of a press launch that was revealed on March 14. However, earlier than the dissemination of that be aware, an e-mail from González Amador’s lawyer (dated February 2, 2024) was leaked to the press that dismantled the lie—which, exactly, was being unfold by the PP of Madrid and the pinnacle of Ayuso’s cupboard, Miguel Ángel Rodríguez. The management of the general public ministry denies that they leaked that e-mailhowever Judge Hurtado considers that there are enough indications that he left there.
“The actions of all of the prosecutors who intervened within the matter had been completely technical-legal and had been supposed to tell public opinion relating to the fabrication of a hoax that, along with being untruthful, attacked the independence and professionalism of sure prosecutors and due to this fact of the Prosecutor’s Office as an establishment,” underlines the UPF statement this Monday: “All of this leads us to think about that we face an unprecedented assault on the establishment of the Prosecutor’s Office, on the day by day work of prosecutors and to the rule of regulation […] The very functioning of the race is being attacked. “Spanish society must know that the autonomy of the Public Prosecutor’s Office, a fundamental piece of democratic justice, is in real danger.”
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