The prosecutor of Supreme Court (TS) Álvaro Redondo has issued a report opposing the high court investigating Carles Puigdemont for terrorism, thus responding to the reasoned statement sent to the TS by the judge of the National Court (AN) that instructs Democratic TsunamiManuel García Castellón, to impute to the former Catalan president for these crimes.
As it has progressed The confidential and tax sources have confirmed, Redondo follows the thesis of the prosecutor of the National Court Miguel Ángel Carballowho appealed the step taken by the investigating judge when he considered that there was not enough evidence to proceed against Puigdemont and that the events did not constitute terrorism, but serious public disorder.
However, the same sources explain that the report is not yet definitive because must undergo the examination of the board of criminal prosecutors of the TS, something that is scheduled for next Tuesday. In the event that there are opposing criteria, that of the majority will prevail, they point out.
Once the final report of the Supreme Court Prosecutor’s Office has been issued, Judge Juan Ramón Berdugo—as rapporteur on the matter—will be in charge of proposing to the Criminal Court of the high court whether or not its admission is appropriate.
It was last November when the head of the Central Court of Instruction Number 6 led the case against Puigdemont and, shortly after, submitted a reasoned statement to the Supreme Court asking that he be charged with terrorism, given that the independence leader is registered before this court.
Puigdemont, at the “vertex”
In a writing of more than 100 pages, García Castellón argued that there are “indications” of the participation of Puigdemont, the general secretary of ERC, Marta Rovira, and ten other people in the commission of events. “susceptible to integrating a crime of terrorism.”
The magistrate placed Puigdemont in the “highest vertex of the organization” of Tsunami Democràtic, indicating that his position as former president and “leader of the independence movement from Brussels attributes to him a position of unquestionable authority.”
Then, he relied on mobile messages between his chief of staff, Josep Lluís Alay, and the businessman Jesús Rodríguez, the notes from the former’s agenda or Puigdemont’s promotion through Twitter of the launch of the Tsunami Democràtic platform.
García Castellón explained that for “the clarification of the facts“It was necessary to carry out investigative procedures that could not be carried out given the status of both Puigdemont and the deputy of the Parliament of Catalonia, Rubén Wagensberg, against whom he also led the case.
The instructor confirms
The Prosecutor’s Office of the National Court appealed that first decision to direct the investigations against Puigdemont, understanding, on the one hand, that there is no “sufficient” evidence against him and, on the other, that the AN “is not competent” to investigate the case because the events were not terrorism but aggravated public disorder.
This January, the instructor rejected the appeal for reform presented by the Prosecutor’s Office against the request to the TS, alleging that the latest procedures carried out to date have allowed “consolidate the initial hypothesis.”
It should be remembered that in this case the National Court is investigating whether Tsunami Democràtic orchestrated the riots that broke out in the fall of 2019 as a reaction to the sentence handed down by the Supreme Court against the former Catalan vice president Oriol Junqueras and other leaders of the ‘procés’.
