The acting president of the Criminal Chamber of the National Court, Alfonso Guevara, has archived the government file opened after Judge Manuel García-Castellón decided to reject outright the challenge raised by one of those investigated in the Tsunami case. Democratic.
In an agreement, Guevara explains that, in accordance with articles 224 and 225 of the Organic Law of the Judiciary, the body procedurally competent to resolve the eventual appeal that could have been formulated regarding the inadmissibility of the recusal is the Third Section of the Criminal Court and not the Plenary. The person under investigation requested that the plenary session be the one that should decide on the appropriateness of opening a challenge to the instructor to remove him from the case.
Since García-Castellón has expanded the investigation to the former president of the Generalitat Carles Puigdemont and the general secretary of ERC, Marta Rovira, in the midst of negotiations to draft an amnesty law in exchange for the investiture of Pedro Sánchez, tension has been increasing .
One of those investigated had requested that he withdraw from the case, while the magistrate has had to request protection from the General Council of the Judiciary due to the criticism leveled at him by members of the acting Government.
García-Castellón still has the case of Democratic Tsunami (TD) in his Court, investigated as a movement that was behind the boycotts and altercations provoked in Catalonia following the ruling of the process in October 2019.
The judge has asked the Supreme Court to take over the investigation once Puigdemont, considered by him to be one of the main axes of TD, is certified as a member of the European Parliament.
On the other hand, the Criminal Chamber of the National Court also has to rule on the appeals filed by the Prosecutor’s Office, against this presentation motivated to elevate the matter to the high court, and against the resolution of the instructor to initiate an investigation into Puigdemont. for a possible crime of terrorism.
García-Castellón aims to demonstrate that Tsunami was responsible for several injuries during the altercations, among them members of the State security forces, and for the death of a man who died of a heart attack after the boycott at the Prat airport.
In this regard, the resolution of the court of l’Hospitalet de Llobregat (Barcelona) has just reached the Court, which archived the proceedings opened due to the death of this French tourist during the blockade of the El Prat airport in 2019, seeing no crime after receiving the autopsy report, which confirmed that it was “natural.”
According to the EFE agency, the court agreed to file the case after receiving the autopsy report that confirmed the “natural” death of the citizen and that pointed to a “cardiac shock” and “chronic ischemic heart disease.”
