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The judge of the National Court José Luis Calama has agreed to provisional release with precautionary measures for retired Civil Guard General Francisco Espinosa Navas, the only preventive prisoner in the Mediator case. The magistrate considers that the risk of flight is very low and that there is no longer the risk of alteration or destruction of evidence that justified his provisional detention.
The investigator has taken the decision against the criteria of the European Public Prosecutor's Office, which had opposed the request of the general's defense to release him. From now on, the retired general must appear every 15 days and will be prohibited from leaving Spain.
At this procedural moment, Judge Calama considers that the provisional release of General Espinosa should be agreed because the risk of flight "is very low" since, "beyond the criminal acts that are imputed to him, based on very solid evidence," he says, "it is true that Mr. Espinosa has strong roots in Spain - personal and economic - and there is no element or indication that alerts about his possible escape to the foreigner." He adds that the prosecutor who originally requested his provisional detention has already said that "it is not what worries him most."
As for the possible risk of alteration or destruction of sources of evidence, the order states that the investigated has been in prison since February 16, 2023, "sufficient time for the investigators to have been able to conveniently secure those aforementioned sources of evidence."
- Mediator Case
- National Court
- Civil Guard
- Ministry of Defence
- Justice
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