The Investigating Court 4 of Badalona has sent the former mayor and candidate of the PP in the municipal elections, Xavier García Albiol, to trial for allegedly allowing the irregular installation of telephone antennas in the Urban Police station.
As stated in the order, the investigating judge considers that there are sufficient indications that the former mayor allowed the antennas to be installed and were in operation despite their irregular installation, between 2012 and 2018, which could constitute continued prevarication urban and environmental.
The prosecution requests for García Albiol for these events a total of two years and ten months in prison, as well as another ten years of disqualification, according to his indictment from the public prosecutor.
The order indicates that the devices began to operate “without having the enabling administrative title of any kind for the installation of the antenna or for the development of the activity or for the occupation and exploitation of the public domain.”
The antennas that were in operation from 2012 to 2018, when the telephone companies voluntarily withdrew them, without having the required permits for the time they were in operation, in a space in which, by its nature, “it was not possible” to install, depending on the car
As for García Albiol, the judge maintains that although the former mayor was aware of the irregular installation of these antennas in the face of complaints from a union of the Urban Guard, with which he even held meetings, he did not carry out any information management and withdrawal of these devices despite repeated requests.
The court emphasizes that Albiol, in addition to being mayor at the time of the facts, held the power to grant building and environmental licenses, the initiation and resolution of urban discipline files and resolutions of sanctioning files for infringement of the regulations. environmental.
“There is no record that the aforementioned mayor, in relation to the facts investigated, formally exercised any of the aforementioned powers, that is, ex ante, with the granting of any license or ex post, with the initiation of any urban or environmental discipline file.” , pick up the car.
In addition to García Albiol, the investigating court has ordered the opening of an oral trial for five other people, including the former citizen security councilor during the first term and PP candidate for mayor of Santa Coloma de Gramenet (Barcelona), Miguel Jury; and the first deputy mayor during the term of Dolors Sabater, Oriol Lladó (ERC), among others.
García Albiol is currently a PP candidate for Badalona City Council and is part of Alberto Núñez Feijóo’s team to lead the municipal and regional campaign in May.
