The judge of the National Court Manuel García Castellón has opened a separate case that will be processed confidentially in order to clarify the alleged commission of a crime of revelation of secrets by the authorities or officials who may have had knowledge of the response. from the Swiss authorities to the rogatory commission that was carried out within the framework of the Tsunami Democratic cause.
The magistrate agrees to entrust the investigation to the Civil Guard in judicial police functions and urges the investigative unit to “avoid any information about the course of the investigation from its superiors, and must report directly on the progress of the investigation to this magistrate. instructor”.
The magistrate agrees to notify this order to the prosecutor and only its operative part to the other parties in person.
It so happens that the response from the Swiss authorities to the rogatory commission issued in November is dated December 22 in Berne, but the central investigative court 6 of the National Court did not receive it until yesterday, Tuesday, after El País and La Ser will report on it.
The judge has opened this reserved investigation in parallel to another order in which he has responded to the Swiss authorities who left the rogatory commission on hold to request more information about the general secretary of ERC, Marta Rovira. In convreto, García-Castellón has considered “inadmissible” the Swiss request for explanations regarding “a hypothetical amnesty” and points out that the international treaties signed between both countries prevent the rejection of judicial assistance for political reasons in the case of terrorism.
