The legal captain José Miguel González Reyes, stationed in the Canary Islands Civil Guard Zone, plotted a singular revenge against his superior, Colonel Vicente Carricondo Sánchez. He wrote letters of a coup character, with insults and threats included, and sent them, in March 2015, to the Minister of the Interior, Jorge Fernández Díaz, the then coordinator of the United Left, Cayo Lara, and his successor, Alberto Garzón, all of them deputies. . He accused the first of “handing over the country to the communist Pablo Iglesias” and assured him that he was ready to “take up arms again, if necessary”; the second he threatened with death with the expression “say goodbye to life”; and to the third he laconically warned: “Prepare yourself.”
But the letters were not signed by the captain but by his superior and they seemed more credible because they were dated February 23 and their author was, supposedly, Vicente Carricondo Sánchez who, more than three decades ago, when he was a lieutenant, had been sentenced to a year in jail for his participation in the assault on Congress led by the coup leader Tejero. The captain took the signature of his superior from a document entitled “specification of technical prescriptions-supply of heating fuel destined for Civil Guard facilities.”
This conclusion has been reached by the Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court which, in a judgment handed down on October 14, dismissed the appeal of the legal captain against the sentence to one year and seven months in prison imposed by the Provincial Court of Madrid as the author of a continuous crime of falsification of private documents and to compensate his superior with 1,000 euros.
The captain’s objective, according to the sentence, was “to damage the colonel’s fame and reputation.” Although the defendant denied in the trial that he felt any animosity towards his superior, he had filed a disciplinary report against him and, although it was flatly shelved, he was able to find out about its existence, according to the court. In addition, the chief was fined for not executing resolutions favorable to the officer in various contentious-administrative proceedings and, in the registry of the latter’s domicile, a letter was found in which he accused the colonel of the crimes of abuse of authority, disloyalty and insults. A file named Carricondo whose content had been erased, but from which the document from which he allegedly extracted the signature that he reproduced on the letters could be recovered.
In the same way that Lieutenant Carricondo was able to continue his career in the Civil Guard despite having participated in the assault on Congress (initially the War Council acquitted him applying due obedience, but the Supreme Court convicted him as the author of a crime of adhesion to military rebellion), Captain González Reyes may continue to belong to the Military Legal Corps.
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