The National Court Judge, José Luis Calama, has opened on Tuesday proceedings to investigate whether yesterday’s blackout It was due to a cyber attack to Spanish critical infrastructures which would fit a crime of terrorism.
The magistrate indicates in his car, to which he has had access electionomista.esthat the blackout has meant “a Critical situation for the welfare and feeling of security of all citizens “by affecting essential services such as transport, health, energy and industry.
Although at the moment the cause of the facts is unknown, “Cyberterrorism is among one of the possible”indicates. “Therefore, it is necessary to open a judicial investigation in case such facts could be constitutive of a crime of terrorism,” he says. However, Red Electrica has ruled out that it is a cyber attack.
According to the judge, those who subverts the constitutional order are considered crimes of terrorism, suppress or seriously destabilize the functioning of political institutions or the economic or social structures of the State, or force public authorities to perform an act or refrain from doing so. Also, those who alter public peace, destabilize the functioning of an international organization or cause a state of terror in the population or in a part of it.
Calama points out that the complex Infrastructure system in which the productive sectors, services management, financial system and development of citizen life in general of our society “are supported”They are especially attractive to terrorismdue to the serious damage that can be caused for the population. “
Proceedings
The magistrate, therefore, asks the National Cryptological Center the issuance of a report about the events that yesterday motivated the cessation of electricity supply in the Peninsula. Specifically, on the cause that led to, for five seconds, 15 GW of the energy that was occurring at that time would be lost.
It also requires a Red Electric Corporation the issuance of a report on the causes of the blackout and entrusts to the National Police Information Police Station The investigation of the facts subject to the present cause, with the presentation of a preliminary report within ten days. “All agreed reports must be issued, even when it is preliminary, in the non -extendable term of ten days,” the car concludes.
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