The Provincial Court of Madrid has definitively ratified the filing of the complaint that Minister Óscar Puente filed against Lucas Burgueño, the man who rebuked him on board an AVE train in September of last year. The judges understand that the intention of the accused was to “annoy him, provoke him” and “get a certain amount of media coverage” but “not to restrict his freedom” and all without using violence.
Burgueño was involved in this incident with Puente on board a train that took the then deputy to Madrid for the second failed investiture vote of Alberto Núñez Feijóo. The man stood in front of Puente and while recording asked him several questions about Carles Puigdemont before the socialist deputy demanded the presence of the Police: “This man is trying to prevent my passage.”
The complaint fell into the hands of Court 30 of Madrid, which shelved the proceedings at the beginning of 2024 as “there were no indications of criminality” or coercion. The Provincial Court recognizes that this first file by the judge was very sparse in details and arguments, limiting itself to repeating the opinion of the Prosecutor’s Office, something that for the magistrates “is not very accurate or advisable, from a legal and constitutional point of view.” ”.
On the merits of the matter, the Court believes that Burgueño’s attitude did not constitute any crime: “There is no violent or intimidating attitude,” the order says. “Mr. Óscar Puente was able to enter the train car and was able to travel in it to Madrid, so there was no limitation on the right to his freedom,” says the court, which even reproaches Puente for confronting the accused. Puente left, they add, “without major consequences.”
In subsequent days, the protagonist of the incident was arrested for other acts, such as for coercing a woman and for trespassing, and it was also revealed that he was awaiting trial for allegedly coercing his ex-partner. That day on the train, the judges affirm that “he had no intention of not attending the parliamentary session nor of being able to travel on the train, but only that he wanted to make a public recrimination against him for what he understood to be dishonorable, making him in an impolite and unpleasant way.”
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