The president of the Generalitat, Pere Aragonès, has asked the lawyer of the administration of justice, Montserrat del Toro, who attended the search at the Department of Economy on September 20, to be removed from the case for spying on his cell phone with Pegasus. 2017, prior to 1-O, due to his animosity towards the independence movement and his “irregular” management.
In a letter, to which Efe has had access, Aragonès’ lawyer has asked the investigating court number 29 of Barcelona for the abstention of the lawyer Del Toro, after detecting “irregularities” in the management of the case file, to the point that a computer expert report favorable to the accusation has been lost for a year.
The lawyer Andreu Van den Eynde argues in his writing the “lack of impartiality” of this lawyer, who in 2017 participated in the searches ordered by the investigating court number 13 of Barcelona in the Ministry of Economy and other departments of the Generalitat in the case against the preparations for 1-O.
Del Toro testified as a protected witness in the trial held in the Supreme Court against the leaders of the process and his story was key to convicting them of the crime of sedition for the demonstrations that surrounded the Ministry of Economy during the 20S search.
Aragonès’ lawyer maintains in his writing that he has recently been aware that the lawyer handling the Catalan president’s complaint for espionage with Pegasus is Del Toro, since until the end of 2023 he had not signed his interventions in the cause.
The lawyer, furthermore, did not personally attend the statement that Aragonès gave before the investigating judge to ratify his complaint for the attack with Pegasus and “was replaced” in that appearance by another judicial secretary.
But what made Aragonès’ lawyers interested in her identity were “two serious irregularities in the management of the file” related to her responsibilities as a lawyer for the administration of justice in the Pegasus case.
One of these irregularities, Van den Eynde details, consisted of the “disappearance” of a computer expert report on the scope of espionage with Pegasus that the lawyer did not locate until almost a year after it was lost, following a complaint filed by Aragonès himself.
According to the lawyer, this is a circumstance “not only unusual but also demonstrates poor management of the custody of the judicial file with an absolutely negative impact on the interests of the victim.”
The letter also reasons that Montserrat Del Toro “has demonstrated in a more than public way her personal position contrary to the interests and political options” defended by Pere Aragonès, which is why it considers that she should refrain from participating in the proceedings related to the espionage investigation. with Pegasus.
Specifically, the lawyer recalls that Del Toro was a protected witness in the procés trial, so he believes that it cannot be denied that he has “animosity and negative predisposition” towards Aragonès, who “is not only a defender of the innocence of those were condemned at the time” but also the “main political leader defending the ideas and objectives of the independence cause.”
Likewise, remember that the challenged official has publicly defended through social networks “political options antagonistic” to the independence movement, with which her actions “place her as a prominent enemy of all the values ??that Pere Aragonès represents.”
