The prosecutor of the National Court Miguel Ángel Carballo has harshly charged against the investigating judge of the Democratic Tsunami case, Manuel García-Castellón, for the “contradictions” and “inconsistencies” of his latest resolutions. In his latest writing, in which he even goes so far as to reproach the judge for confusing Tsunami with the CDR, he criticizes that the magistrate has not provided “any new information” regarding the indictment of the former president of the Generalitat Carles Puigdemont. “Something significant,” he emphasizes, since not even the Civil Guard report linked him to the origin of the platform that led the protests in Catalonia after the procés ruling.
In the letter, Carballo begins by attacking the “contradiction” between the resolution of November 6 by which he charged – in addition to asking to expand the investigation – the former president and the general secretary of ERC, Marta Rovira, and the reasoned statement sent to the Supreme Court to take up the case. “It was completely incongruous to agree to a series of proceedings […] and without waiting for their results to hasten the referral of the reasoned statement to the Supreme Court,” criticizes the prosecutor.
Carballo shows that “the few proceedings carried out” refer specifically to the unrest after the Supreme Court ruling, but not, “in any case”, to new evidence against Puigdemont and Rovira. The prosecutor highlights the idea that García-Castellón has focused on “rather” proving the consequences of the acts of public disorder carried out in Catalonia at the end of 2019 by various groups and people, “but none of the procedures agreed upon or carried out” in the alleged responsibility of the two accused in the terrorism case.
The case of the former president of the Generalitat was “especially significant” for the prosecutor, to whom not even the Civil Guard made any attribution of the events under investigation. “The lack of arguments for the specific imputation of acts of terrorist nature to those investigated was already significant,” says the prosecutor of the National Court, for whom García-Castellón “limited himself” to making a “generic reference” to the reports of the civil Guard.
