Logic and reason lead us to think that Aldama has told many truths in his statement although, obviously, we cannot rule out that there is a percentage of embellishment, vendetta or flourish, especially in matters that are not the subject of the case. Nor can we dismiss the fact that part of the things he has declared are not lies but deceptions that have been done to him.
If you believe there is some unbearable truth, bear it
Gaius Mucius put his hand in the fire out of love and loyalty to Rome. It was the year 508 BC when the young man crossed the Tiber to enter the Etruscan camp and assassinate their king. Hundreds of young Romans had conspired to try, one after another, until they achieved the goal. Gaius Mucius reached the camp but, ignorant of Etruscan customs, saw a guy dressed in purple and stabbed him with a dagger, taking him for the leader of the troops. It wasn’t. He was arrested and effectively brought to his presence, who urged him to betray the organization of the Romans if he did not want to be burned alive. To show that he was not intimidated and that his loyalty to his people was unwavering, he crossed the room to one of the braziers and himself put his right hand into the flames. While he was burning, he said: “The body is a small thing for those who only aspire to glory.” Given such a display of courage, the Etruscan king spared his life. This is the rather mythical origin of the Castilian expression “put your hand in the fire” for someone.
It smells scorched in this country. You have to be very sure to embrace others out of pure faith and without weighing the data.
Logic and facts show us, however, that the chances are that Víctor de Aldama has asked to testify voluntarily, advised by his lawyer, to incriminate himself in new crimes, releasing a continuous stream of unsupported balls with the sole objective of making a hole to the government are quite low. Neither his own interest nor the expertise of his lawyer nor the acceptance of the agreement by the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office point to such a conclusion. The strategy of lawyer Jose Antonio Choclán emanates directly from the Law of Criminal Procedure and is very skillful and well elaborated, it is not possible to charge against it with mere ad hominem arguments. It is obvious at this point that De Aldama cannot claim as a defense strategy to proclaim himself innocent of all charges and thus hope to be acquitted. His position is such that it is better for him to try to be sentenced to the minimum penalties and that is the reason why his lawyer has turned him into a kind of repentant, a collaborator with Justice, to whom the benefits established by the legislation. Established, yes, because Justice to be done also requires a kind of criminal law of the friend, in which those who are willing to help condemn all the others are rewarded. It happens in all democratic countries.
It is true that Santiago Pedraz had sent De Aldama to preventive detention for the Hydrocarbons case and that the appeal to the Chamber for his release had not been successful. Collaboration then arises in the case that the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office is most interested in, the Koldo Case, and there cannot but have been an agreement that once the statement was made, the prosecutor, as in fact he did, would not oppose his freedom. with measures in the other cause. You may be tempted to think that the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office has gone crazy, that it has agreed to reward an absurd and false collaboration from which no benefit can be obtained, but I will not be the one to do so. The logic points not only to the fact that Anticorruption has considered the statement beneficial – in fact it has said so in a note – but also to the fact that the sequence included the statement and later the release and then the provision of material if this is not It has already been seized and what has been done has been to clear the way for where they should search to find the evidence. Not in vain is there a terabyte of data and six of their cell phones in the possession of the UCO.
Logic and reason lead us to think that Aldama has told many truths in his statement although, obviously, we cannot rule out that there is a percentage of embellishment, vendetta or flourish, especially in matters that are not the subject of the case. Nor can we dismiss the fact that some of the things he has declared are not lies but deceptions that have been committed on him, for example, that he may not be lying when he says that they asked him for money for Santos Cerdán and yet that this person was not has ever bribed, because that money will go to Koldo himself who requested it in his name. Maybe they told him that Sánchez wanted to meet him and that Sánchez didn’t know anything.
However, there is no need to get bogged down, given that we are not called to judge anyone nor does the procedure have to be resolved in two days and three headlines. I have no doubt that Aldama’s devices must contain many of the communications he had with the other defendants, there is no bird of mind that does not keep the little things in case they come to curves. The curves have arrived and the little things will come. There is also the judge pending Ábalos’ hard drives that appeared in the search at Koldo’s house and which it seems they have already managed to decrypt. There will undoubtedly be more information there, because no one takes care to protect things so much if it is not worth it. In addition, other people will be called to testify and all types of evidentiary procedures will be carried out. As is always done.
Resorting to the ad hominem fallacy is resorting, as its name indicates, to deception or in certain cases to self-deception and only demonstrates nerves that, to be honest, I do not understand. The campaign against lawyer Jose Antonio Choclán is infamous and ridiculous at the same time. You will not find a single jurist, from the right to the left or half a pensioner, who does not tell you that technically Choclán is very good. Screw up the countryside, as has been done, accusing him of defending corrupt peperos – my goodness, a lawyer defending those accused of committing a crime! What will be next? – is to have few arguments and piss out of the box. I also suggest that ad hominem be done with true data because things that are not are being repeated on networks. Choclán did not disqualify Baltasar Garzón as a judge but rather he was one of the lawyers heard in prison on his orders and it was not even he who filed the complaint, it was also the lawyer and former prosecutor Ignacio Peláez who did so. What he did do while he was still a magistrate was to send Mario Conde to prison, that was his presentation.
I have also seen attacks against the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor, Luis Pastor, because he once held a technical position in Michavila’s ministries. The point is that his last appointment to the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office was made by Juan Carlos Campo, Sánchez’s Minister of Justice, while Dolores Delgado was Attorney General of the State. I have also read resentments against the head of the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office, Alejandro Luzón, who was confirmed in his leadership by Álvaro García Ortíz himself. Maybe they are two good professionals and, in that case, it is difficult for us to consider that they have been deceived like Chinese people by telling a bunch of nonsense without proving anything. I read in this newspaper that the State Attorney General was not informed of the position that Anti-Corruption would take, perhaps it is because the investigation affects those who appointed him to a position in which he is in a complicated situation right now. Maybe they didn’t want someone to try to ruin the appearance and the contributions that Aldama can make. I am glad that Justice is capable of advancing against whoever and whatever the political sign, I am glad that we are not a failed state as the extreme right says, I am glad that the mechanisms continue to work although sometimes they do so with difficulty because power has always tried to catch them.
In terms of pure logic and cold analysis, I would recommend keeping your hands in your pockets until you see how this ends and who it drags down. After all, we are not Roman heroes.
#careful #hands #fires
