Manuel Marraco Madrid
Madrid
Updated Thursday, February 22, 2024-17:57
Justice First trial against the 'patriotic police': Podemos requests 10 years in prison for two commanders for a maneuver against the Pujols
The judge of the National Court Santiago Pedraz has admitted a complaint by Podemos directed against the former Secretary of State for Security Francisco Martínez, the former Deputy Operational Director (DAO) Eugenio Pino and other senior officials of the Police for the alleged prospective and extraneous investigations to judicial control over the people who made up that political organization.
The admission is partial, since in line with what was requested by the Prosecutor's Office, the judge refuses to investigate the former Minister of the Interior Jorge Fernández Díaz, the former Director General of the Police Ignacio Cosidó and other police officials.
The complaint was filed for crimes of criminal organization, seizure and disclosure of secrets, administrative prevarication and document falsification.
He was also presented for embezzlement and for a crime against State institutions, but the magistrate rules out that the reported facts fit into those crimes.
In its letter, Podemos pointed out that the defendants, "under the leadership of the Secretary of State for Security, Francisco Martínez, who in turn periodically reported to the Minister of the Interior Jorge Fernández Díaz, with the latter having final decision-making capacity, taking advantage of his condition of public authority and with the collaboration of police agents, were in charge of carrying out prospective investigations unrelated to any police interest, not under judicial control or the Public Prosecutor's Office on the people who made up the Podemos political organization.
The main objective, according to this formation, was its subsequent leak to the media under the label of reliability of "police sources" and to "discredit Podemos in the eyes of public opinion."