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Juana Rivas and her lawyers do not intend to sit idly by after the setback by the Superior Court of Justice of Andalusia (TSJA), by not admitting the mother's complaint against the Granada judge who sentenced her.

Maracena's mother fights back and has now filed a complaint with the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ), which she has asked to open a

disciplinary case

against Judge

Manuel Piñar

.

The governing body of the judges has already initiated an "informative diligence" on the matter, but has not yet made any decision on the matter.

This Granada judge sentenced Juana Rivas to five years in prison for child abduction, after escaping with her two children in 2017. The Supreme Court later reduced this sentence by half.

And, finally, the Government of Pedro Sánchez granted a partial pardon to her mother, which allowed her not to go to prison and regain parental authority over her children.

At the end of July, the mother filed a complaint against the judge before the TSJA for

prevarication and "institutional abuse"

, but the Andalusian High Court has rejected the complaint, not appreciating evidence of a crime in the judge's conduct.

The Prosecutor's Office even requested that her mother be fined 5,000 euros for "abuse of rights", although, finally, the TSJA did not sanction her financially.

After this judicial setback, Juana Rivas has filed a complaint with the CGPJ against the judge who sentenced her for the content she disseminates through her Facebook account, as reported Monday by

Carlos Aránguez

, the mother's lawyer.

The 23 pages of the complaint before the CGPJ are full of screenshots with the alleged content that she spreads on the internet and her criticism of

"feminazis"

.

The complaint against the judge is based on the fact that article 395 of the Organic Law of the Judiciary prohibits judges and magistrates "directing congratulations or censures to the powers, authorities and public officials or official corporations, congratulations or censures for their acts."

For Juana Rivas's lawyer, Judge Piñar expresses opinions on his Facebook page that constitute

"clear insults to multiple groups"

, for which he asks the CGPJ to assess whether or not they are supported by the "right to freedom of expression , which protects any opinion, as long as it is not formally insulting, and whether or not it complies with the decorum required of those who have the responsibility of dispensing justice".

In the complaint, several screenshots are given as an example with alleged "disrespectful" demonstrations towards magistrates, judges or prosecutors, criticism of equality policies, with terms such as "feminazi", in addition to comments "of

contempt

for leftist parties and

policies

" and towards the "

unions

and syndicalists", according to Juana Rivas' complaint.

The complaint also includes expressions "disrespectful towards groups of migrants or ethnic minorities, frequently using terms such as

Moorish or black

", and other comments "of contempt" or disrespectful" towards "certain media outlets or journalists" and members of “religious confessions, including the Pope.” In one of the screenshots, reference is made to the alleged comments of the judge on information referring to the “Oltra case” or the trip to New York by the Minister of Equality, Irene Montero.

In addition to the complaint before the CGPJ, the lawyer Aránguez has filed this Monday an appeal against the order of the TSJA that rejects the complaint for prevarication and institutional mistreatment against Judge Piñar for his actions in the Juana Rivas case.

There is no prevarication

The TSJA concluded that there was no crime in the conduct of this judge in the Juana Rivas case, but it did detect

"unfortunate" manifestations

in his writings, which were in no case "prevaricating."

For this reason, Juana Rivas asks in her appeal before the TSJA that she assess "as a whole" her case, "especially in light of the magistrate's

animosity

" towards her "for personal reasons."

The resource refers to the alleged "friendship" of Juana Rivas with Judge Piñar's sisters, since even one of them "came to advise" Francesco Arcuri as a lawyer and the "public antipathy" of the magistrate towards what he calls

" feminazi hogwash"

on their social networks.

Judge Piñar should have

abstained

, according to Juana Rivas's lawyer, who complains that he passed sentence "in five hours, the same day as the oral hearing", and applied "19th century laws with

severity and inhumanity

unbecoming of the

constitutional principles and values ​​of our society in the 21st century".

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