The board of criminal prosecutors of the Supreme Court meets today to discuss the report of prosecutor Redondo
The board of criminal prosecutors of the Supreme Court (TS) is meeting this February 6 to examine the report of prosecutor Álvaro Redondo in which he points out that there is insufficient evidence to impute former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont for Democratic Tsunami, at the same time that rejects that the facts investigated in this case constitute terrorism crimes.
The ordinary board, which takes place on a weekly basis, will have about fifteen prosecutors, among whom will be the prosecutors of the Fidel Cadena Trial, Javier Zaragoza and Consuelo Madrigal. Redondo will defend his proposal and, if the majority agrees, the report will be approved. If not, a new text will have to be drawn up, which can be assigned to another prosecutor or left in the hands of Redondo himself.
Fiscal sources predict a tense meeting, as some prosecutors disagree with Redondo’s report
Fiscal sources consulted by Europa Press predict that it will be a tense meeting, since several prosecutors have already advanced that they do not agree with the conclusions reached by Redondo in understanding that there was indeed terrorism in the actions carried out by Democratic Tsunami in the fall of 2019 in protest of the sentence of the Process.
Redondo’s report responds to the reasoned exposition of judge García Castelló, who asked the Supreme Court to investigate Puigdemont and other people for alleged crimes of terrorism
Redondo’s report, to which Europa Press has had access, responds to the reasoned statement that the head of the Central Court of Instruction Number 6, Manuel García Castelló, sent last November to the Supreme Court requesting the high court to investigate Puigdemont, the deputy of the Parliament Rubén Wagensberg — both of whom have been appointed — and the general secretary of ERC, Marta Rovira, among others, for alleged crimes of terrorism.
The prosecutor explains that, although the Supreme Court is the competent court to hear the criminal conduct attributed to Puigdemont and Wagensberg, in this case he believes that the investigating judge “must follow the investigations, by not concurring rational evidence of criminality in this procedural moment that justify the elevation of the case to the Criminal Chamber of the TS in relation to the mentioned gentlemen”. According to his judgment, the collected evidence “is too generic”.
The evidence provided by judge García Castelló against Puigdemont are his conversations with a businessman, meetings in Geneva and campaigns on social networks
Specifically, it collects the evidence provided by judge García Castelló against Puigdemont, such as his conversations with a businessman where “direct reference is made to Democratic Tsunami as an instrument for the achievement of independence”; others from his Chief of Staff, Josep Lluís Alay, with another businessman; the meetings in Geneva of sovereignist parties and entities with the presence of the then president; or their “direct push” to social media campaigns.
