The president of the Canary Islands, Ángel Víctor Torres, has announced this Tuesday as general secretary of the PSOE in the archipelago that his party will appear as popular accusation in what is known as the Mediator case, after the PP, Cs and Vox have announced that same intention in the last days.
Torres has made this announcement in the last debate on the state of nationality of the present legislature, in which he has explained that since there is no harm to public coffers, the executive he heads cannot appear in the case, which is investigating alleged extortion of businessmen in which a former PSOE deputy Juan Bernardo Fuentes and his nephew Taishet Fuentes, former Director General of Agriculture in the Canary Islands executive, a position previously held by his uncle, have been arrested.
And it has done so, among other reasons, to avoid “turning into executioners” those who really are “victims” in the so-called ‘Mediator case’, because what is being investigated are “individual responsibilities, until proven otherwise”.
The Canarian president has argued that the fact that “one person, two, or whoever they are are part of a group, an organization, an institution, State security forces and bodies, are corrupted cannot mean that they are corrupted the institution to which they have belonged, until proven otherwise”. “You cannot condemn those who are the victims, the institutions and honest people, no matter how shameful and illegal the actions of those who were part of them are,” he proclaimed. And he added: “you cannot turn those who are actually the victims into executioners, and the victims are, we are, the honest people.”
“It cannot be that we have to defend our honor against false statements and without evidence from those who have been shown to have lied in court and are going to be sentenced, as they were on several occasions, for violating the law,” he said in reference to Marco Antonio Navarro Tacoronte, the mediator who gives his name to the case. Giving them fuel is participating, and that is precisely what has made me question many things “these days in which the ‘Mediator case’ has taken the front pages of newspapers and television spaces, but he believes that “it is worth it” to go out and defend publicly ” the honesty of the vast majority of public servants, civil servants, and also politicians”.
Ángel Víctor Torres has insisted that the details that little by little are becoming known about the case “disgust us, they embarrass us”, and he has once again asked “that everything be known, that what has to be investigated be investigated, that whoever falls have to fall.” “Whoever breaks the law, let them fall, but do not drag themselves gratuitously, falsely and vainly to any institution on our land”, Torres has settled, who has recalled that “similar events, even more serious, have occurred in democracy and before , in our community and outside the Canary Islands”. “And unfortunately no one can affirm that this will not happen again, here or anywhere, in the future”, he has closed.
