The Provincial Court of Madrid has ordered that a National Police agent be tried for a minor crime for allegedly threatening an activist from the social group in which he was infiltrated. The court, as El Salto has anticipated and elDiario.es has been able to confirm, has revoked the decision of a court to file the case outright and has ordered that the agent and the complainant be summoned for the “timely trial on minor crimes.” ”.
The agent spent two years infiltrating the anti-fascist movement District 14, in the Madrid district of Moratalaz, shortly after leaving the Ávila National Police academy until disappearing in April 2022. The young man had graduated in the summer of 2020 and shortly Later he introduced himself to the group of activists as a young man from Malaga who worked in an air conditioning company.
As El Salto revealed at the time, the young man stated that he lived in a relative’s house in Moratalaz and was available to participate in all types of actions by the group against betting houses, against the presence of Vox in the neighborhood or even on pickets against a local businessman and evictions. The young man abruptly left the group two years after his arrival when, within District 14, the appearance of other infiltrated police officers led the activists to become suspicious.
The young man who became known as ‘Juancar’ disappeared but at one point spoke through Instagram with one of the activists of the group he had infiltrated. According to what was reported at the time, the agent assured that if they crossed paths he was going to “get confused, more like my grandfather’s knife,” adding that “he no longer understands words, I only speak in Askari.”
A minor crime of threats
The activists denounced the threats as minor and a Madrid court decided to archive the case, but the appeal by lawyer Daniel Amelang, from Red Jurídica, has been successful before the Provincial Court of Madrid. The magistrates criticize that their colleague issued the dismissal with an order that “suffers from the minimum motivation” and explains that the words of the accused “could deserve, in principle, criminal relevance, as they may constitute a minor crime of threats served on the intimidating nature of the expressions uttered.”
The result, as sources in the case explain to elDiario.es, is that the court will have to hold a trial for a minor crime of threats against the agent, being able to launch some type of procedure such as verifying his status as an official but nothing to investigate his possible guilt. Only if it were decided that the threats were more serious than a minor crime would the case become preliminary proceedings with a normal investigation.
The case of this infiltrated agent is one of many uncovered in recent months by media such as El Salto, La Directa and elDiario.es, especially in Madrid and Catalonia. This newspaper revealed that an agent used the false identity of María Peres to infiltrate groups such as Distrito 104 and the Anti-Repressive Movement of Madrid, participating in demonstrations by throwing stones against riot police.
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