The Criminal Chamber of the National Court has endorsed the proceedings agreed upon by the investigating judge of the Tsunami Democratic case, Manuel García Castellón, on January 26, among them those aimed at investigating whether this platform had among its objectives to act passage of the King’s entourage on a visit to Barcelona in July 2020. The Chamber also rejects that it is a prospective investigation. The court understands that the investigation has been a “success.”
In an order, the Third Section of the Criminal Chamber rejects the appeal of one of the investigated parties, to which the prosecutor joined, against García Castellón’s order in which he agreed on a battery of investigative procedures, including whether Tsunami had among Its objectives were to act alongside the King’s entourage on a visit to Barcelona in July 2020. In addition, it requested information regarding the incidents that occurred in El Prat on October 14, 2019, the death of a French citizen on that date or the cuts on the AP 7 highway between November 11 and 13.
The court responds that what the court is pursuing with its investigations is to delve into the knowledge of the facts, in which there are harmed people and a possible use of instruments capable of harming and harming.
The court denies that it is a prospective investigation but rather that it “deepens, investigates, always pursues maximum knowledge of what would have happened”, of which it always has prior ‘notitia criminis’, “more or less deep in the knowledge of what happened, news of the crime that has the obligation to verify and expand.”
The Chamber also rules on the procedures agreed to investigate the death of a French citizen and the blockage of the AP 7 highway and which, according to the appellant, ended with resolutions of archiving by the corresponding territorial courts.
The order explains that the appellant does not mention the legal precept violated by the investigating judge for wanting to clarify those facts that are for the benefit of the entire process. “There is a considerable qualitative difference between the overall vision to which the court a quo is called, given the nature of the crimes it investigates, and the absolutely compartmentalized vision of the courts of the territory. From this consideration arises the success and relevance of the investigations of the investigating judge, he points out.
