The Association of Judges for Democracy has asked to reflect on the proportionality of the search carried out this Wednesday in the office of the state attorney general, Alvaro Garcia Ortiz, investigated for a “less serious” crime, which requires a reinforced justification for the measure.
In a statement, the progressive association sees it as “fundamental” that the result of the investigative diligence be preserved and leaks are avoided that take place in similar cases.” Considers that the search and seizure of the attorney general’s communications ordered by the Supreme Court invites us to reflect “on the proportionality of the measures affecting fundamental rights“in the scope of a criminal investigation, and emphasizes that the jurisprudence of the Supreme Court itself and the European Court of Justice Human Rights (TEDG) requires a reinforced justification for this measure.
The association reminds that the less impact on fundamental rights “if there are other measures that involve less interference” and asks to avoid leaks that could mean that, “to guarantee the right of defense of those who present themselves as harmed (businessman Alberto González Amador, partner of Isabel Diaz Ayuso), the fundamental rights of other people are violated.
A group of agents from the Central Operational Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard He went to the State Attorney General’s Office this Wednesday around 12:30 p.m. to register the office of Álvaro García Ortiz by order of the Supreme Court magistrate Ángel Hurtado, while another team did the same in the office of the chief prosecutor of Madrid, Pilar Rodríguez, also under investigation.
They did so just a few hours after the magistrate launched the investigation against the State Attorney General for alleged revelation of secrets about the emails in which the defense of businessman Alberto González Amador, boyfriend of the president of the Community of Madrid, offered a pact to the Prosecutor’s Office in which he pleaded guilty to defrauding the Treasury of 350,000 euros.
During registration, lasted more than ten hoursthe agents overturned the computers, cell phones and tablets of the attorney general and the chief prosecutor of Madrid, from whose office they also took some paper documents, by virtue of the judge’s mandate, sources in the case report. The agents arrived at the Attorney General’s Office half an hour before an event on the investigation of human rights violations began, which ended up being suspended.
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