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On June 1, the Madrid Government delegation sent a letter to the head of the 51st Investigating Court of the capital, Judge Carmen Rodríguez-Medel, where she admits that the different telephone calls made on March 11 from this body to requesting promoters to call off various manifestations in full expansion of the coronavirus, were not registered anywhere.

In addition, he maintains that they were carried out with the aim of "collaborating" with the police units that must ensure security in the course of those acts that were not called off.

In the letter, to which EL MUNDO has had access, the Secretary General of the Government delegation, Fernando Talavera , responds to an official letter sent by the 8-M instructor, where they were asked if the 21 demonstrations and concentrations that were Disconcerted in the days after the massive demonstration of Women's Day was made on "own initiative" or "at the request" of this body and "what channel was used for it."

Talavera explains that "the officials of the Citizen Security Unit of the Government delegation proceeded to contact the interested parties at the end of the morning of March 11, 2020" to find out, "if in view of the events, they planned to carry out the demonstrations or rallies. "

The delegation's arguments

Likewise, from the delegate body that directs the investigated José Manuel Franco - charged in the 8-M case for a crime of prevarication and cited by the judge on June 10 - it is maintained that these telephone communications with the conveners are made " in supervening scenarios over the situation initially foreseen to favor a more efficient disposition of the police officers in charge of event security. "

The objective of these telephone calls, according to the version given by the Government delegation to the magistrate, is "to collaborate" so that "the competent police units propose their devices and execute them only in the cases in which they confirm their will to exercise such fundamental right, already recognized by this body, which has been given by previously communicated. "

The investigating judge of the 'Case 8-M', Carmen Rodríguez-Medel. EL MUNDO

On the other hand, the letter details that the "majority of calls" were made on March 11, 12, 13 and 16 , although some were made between the 17th and 27th of that month when the promoters were not located on the first four dates.

Judge Rodríguez-Medel asked the government delegation to specify if there had been requests to summon protests between March 5 and 14 - when the state of alarm was declared - that they had not been documented and, in this case, He demanded that "the reasons for not doing so be communicated to him."

The 'investigated' application

Franco's agency responds that in the application called Management of Concentrations and Demonstrations , on which it operates in all delegations and subdelegations in Spain, "effectively everything is registered and filed with electronic entries, provided that the management is carried out from the own application and adjustment, therefore, to the parameters and formalities for which it is designed. "

The aforementioned application allows you to manually record the data of the different calls, but, they assure, "it is not configured to make or record the telephone calls that may be made concerning the management of the concentrations that are received."

Likewise, the Secretary General of the Government delegation, summoned as a witness by the judge on June 10 to give a statement in the procedure, stressed that in the Citizen Security Unit of the aforementioned body "there is no database or record book of telephone communications in which the different calls made by the officials acting in said unit may appear. "

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