The Supreme Court has rejected the complaint with which HazteOir and an individual had requested a criminal investigation of the Government, the Ministry of the Interior and the Generalitat for the escape of Carles Puigdemont in Barcelona last August. The Criminal Chamber inadmisses the accusation that was directed, among others, against Pedro Sánchez, Fernando Grande-Marlaska and Salvador Illa in addition to the directors of the Police, the Civil Guard and the Mossos d’Esquadra, reproaching the ultra-Catholic association that has filed the complaint without indicating “how they organized it or how they used it” so that the different police forces failed when trying to arrest Puigdemont, who had an arrest warrant issued by Judge Pablo Llarena.
Carles Puigdemont, outside Spain since 2017 and called on several occasions by the Supreme Court to respond for the Catalan independence process, went to Barcelona last August for the investiture session of the socialist Salvador Illa as president. Puigdemont appeared for a few brief moments at the doors of the Parliament on a stage and then got off and disappeared from the area while supposedly heading towards the Catalan chamber. The Mossos d’Esquadra’s ‘Operation Cage’ failed to find him and he returned to Brussels.
Judge Pablo Llarena, instructor of the central case on the process, has kept Carles Puigdemont in search and capture within the borders of Spain for more than six years and a few hours later he wrote to the Mossos and the Ministry of the Interior. to demand explanations about how it had been possible for the former Catalan president to disappear in broad daylight and in front of dozens of police officers. Meanwhile, Barcelona courts are investigating several Mossos agents for allegedly helping him escape.
The Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court received several complaints and complaints against members of the Government, who were accused of having allowed Puigdemont to escape for political convenience. A first complaint was filed by an individual, accusing Pedro Sánchez, Fernando Grande-Marlska, Salvador Illa and the commanders of the Police, the Civil Guard and the Mossos of an illegal omission of the duty to prosecute crimes. A few days later the president of HazteOir filed a complaint for this same crime against the Minister of the Interior.
The Supreme Court inadmisses all these criminal actions and remembers that denouncing someone solely for their position, without “referring to any connection with the facts,” is a direct path to inadmissibility and archiving. “Only the responsibilities inherent to the various positions listed are described, but no conduct on their part is specified. There is only talk of one result, the non-arrest of Mr. Puigdemont, but nothing indicates how they ordered or in what way they used the members of the various police forces to fail in achieving that arrest.”
The complaint and the complaint, the judges reproached at the end of October, “allude to responsibilities, but not to any specific conduct.” If they want to take action against other people, explains the Supreme Court, they must do so in the competent bodies, such as the Barcelona courts that are investigating the escape of the former Catalan president.
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