The Superior Prosecutor’s Office is going to ask the Superior Court of Justice of Andalusia (TSJA) to return the proceedings of the case opened in the Andalusian high court for the kidnapping of the socialist councilor of Maracena Vanessa Romero to the Investigating Court number 5 of Granada, leaving For the moment, the autonomous and registered deputy Noel López, who was mayor in this municipality of the Granada metropolitan area, is out of the possible investigations.
Thus, the Superior Prosecutor of Andalusia is going to ask the TSJA that the case return to the investigating court and that this judicial body take a statement as investigated the mayoress, Berta Linares, and the Town Planning councilor, Antonio García Leyva, none of them registered.
This request comes after the Andalusian high court asked the Public Prosecutor to issue a report as a result of the special case opened on this alleged case of kidnapping, as among those possibly involved was the autonomous socialist deputy and registered Noel López, former mayor of Maracena and that has been temporarily separated as number 3 of the PSOE-A.
According to judicial sources, the claim of the Prosecutor’s Office is that the investigating court can take a statement as investigated from the two municipal officials, the still mayoress and urban planning councilor, who are not registered, and from their appearances in the Investigating Court 5, to elucidate if there are possible contradictions between his statements and those already made by the alleged perpetrator of the kidnapping, who remains imprisoned and who was the councilor’s sentimental partner at the time of the events last February.
The tax pronouncement on the opening or not of proceedings is part of the special case opened by the Civil and Criminal Chamber of the TSJA, based in Granada, which previously received the reasoned statement sent by the Investigating Court 5 of Granada.
In addition to Noel López, said reasoned judicial statement was also directed against the current acting mayor, Berta Linares, and the Town Planning Councilor, Antonio García Leyva, indicated by the examining magistrate (based on the actions carried out up to now) as alleged inducers of the illegal detention of the mayor Vanessa Romero.
In the order, in which the magistrate Josep Sola raised the case to the TSJA due to the condition of Noel López as registered, an alleged meeting between the former mayor of Maracena, the still councilor Berta Linares and the Town Planning Councilor Antonio García Leyva with the mayoress’s boyfriend at the time.
According to the aforementioned order, the three would have proposed, induced or convinced the only one investigated at the moment for this cause to commit the kidnapping that, in the opinion of the victim, would be motivated by the existence of urban planning files that she had and that they would compromise the municipal management of both López and Linares, who for their part have repeatedly and publicly denied their possible participation in the events.
