The National Court opens an investigation to investigate whether the blackout could be a computer sabotage

The judge of the National Court José Luis Calama has opened a judicial inviet in the line of finding out if the blackout produced on Monday in the Iberian Peninsula could be a constitutive computer sabotage, according to international legislation, of Crime of terrorism.

In a car issued on Tuesday, the magistrate justifies the decision in which at the present time the cause of the aforementioned facts is decoched, cyber -terrorism is among one of the possible: «Therefore, it is necessary to open a judicial investigation of a judicial investigation In case such facts could be constitutive of a crime of terrorism». As first proceedings, it requires a report on what happened to the National Cryptological Center and another to Spanish Electricity.

The head of the Central Court of Instruction 4 agrees to initiate the investigation proceedings in case the loss of electricity throughout Spain was an act of computer sabotage in «Spanish critical infrastructures and that in that case they would fit in a crime of terrorism of article 573.1 and 2 of the Criminal Code ».

The judge gives an improrable term of Ten days to Red Eléctrica and to the cryptological center to “indicate the causes that motivated the blackout. In the same way, it asks the Police Information Headquarters so that, also within ten days, this preliminary report on the events occurred ».

He explains that the incident occurred yesterday at 12.30 Spanish time and affected computer systems that support infrastructure that provide essential services to society such as health, energy, industry, transport, etc., which has meant «A critical situation for well -being and feeling of security of all citizens ».

Collects the explanation of the President of the Government

The car includes the explanation provided by the Government that they have “lost” suddenly for 5 seconds 15 GW of the energy that was occurring at that time, which is equivalent to 60 percent of the light that was being consumed, being “being”something that had never happened».

In accordance with article 573 of the Criminal Code, recalls the magistrate, computer crimes can be qualified as terrorism when its purpose is to seriously destabilize the constitutional order or the functioning of essential services.

The instructor, in its resolution, examines national and European legislation regarding the protection of critical infrastructures and fight against cyber -terrorism and that, in the case of Spain, he led the legislator to introduce this phenomenon into the Criminal Code within the crimes of terrorism. Specifically, in article 573. 2 in which the facts would initially fit “in the event that its origin had been sponsored in the form and with any of the purposes described in said criminal type.”