Gerard Melgar Barcelona

Barcelona

Updated Wednesday, February 7, 2024-14:02

  • Supreme The setback of 12 TS prosecutors weakens García Ortiz before the Government and reveals another "maneuver" in the 'Puigdemont case'

  • Tsunami The Supreme Court prosecutor retracted in 72 hours five indications of "terrorism" against Puigdemont

"I do not lie". This is how categorical the State Attorney General,

Álvaro García Ortiz

, has been

regarding whether he knew of the existence of the first report prepared by the Supreme Court prosecutor

Álvaro Redondo

on

Democratic Tsunami

, in which he found evidence to open a case for

the crime of terrorism

, a criterion that changed four days later in a second document.

This is what he expressed this afternoon at the City of Justice in Barcelona, ​​where he met with representatives of the Public Ministry in Catalonia one day after the

Board of Prosecutors

of the Supreme Court rejected by a large majority the theses of the second report by Redondo and It was agreed that the former president of the Generalitat

Carles Puigdemont

should be investigated

for terrorism.

García Ortiz has described as "speculation" the information published by EL MUNDO in recent days about the change of criteria in two reports with very similar characteristics, but opposite content.

Accompanied by senior officials from the Attorney General's Office, García Ortiz presides over a Board of Prosecutors in which the top prosecutor of Catalonia, Francisco Bañeres, the chief prosecutors of Barcelona, ​​Tarragona, Lleida and Girona and the heads of the Provincial Prosecutor's Office of Barcelona participate. García Ortiz and Bañeres had held a meeting prior to the Board.

The conclave of TS prosecutors yesterday analyzed Redondo's report on the reasoned exposition sent by the judge of the National Court Manuel García-Castellón to the High Court on the case opened by the actions of Tsunami Democràtic, the platform that organized several of the protests against the ruling of the procés trial between October and December 2019.

Twelve prosecutors compared to three found terrorism crimes in the events called by Tsunami and eleven compared to four considered that there is sufficient evidence to open a case against Puigdemont and the Republican Left deputy in the Parliament Ruben Wagensberg, who last week announced that he resides in Switzerland, for a month, to prepare its defense and for "fear of arbitrary detention."

In the first report prepared by prosecutor Redondo, he observed signs of terrorism against Puigdemont and, in the second, he ruled them out. The first indictment report, dated January 26, stated on five occasions that the Tsunami actions were classified as terrorism crimes. On the other hand, the second document, which he discussed with the attorney general the following Tuesday at nine in the morning, states that these same acts were constitutive of crimes of public disorder, not having a place in article 573 of the Penal Code as a crime of terrorism. .