Pablo Iglesias: The judge imputes another policeman in the case on the dirty war against Podemos | Spain
Santiago Pedraz, an instructor magistrate of the National Court, has charged another police on Wednesday in the open research on dirty warfare against Podemos In the time of the government of Mariano Rajoy (PP). The judge has called to declare an agent who consulted in 2016 data from Pablo Iglesias, then general secretary of the training of lefts. The Prosecutor’s Office had proposed that it be summoned as a “investigated” (that is, assisted by lawyer) to “guarantee their rights”, after the official himself explained that he had sought data of the former political leader for being part of the same party as the exeurodiputa Miguel Urbán, on which he investigated in a drug trafficking investigations – hells of assembly and “nonsense” by the affected.
With the progress of the judicial instruction on the dirty war against Podemos, it has been known that the National Police opened in 2016 a secret investigation that baptized as an Cardinal Operation, protected by the Anti -Drug Prosecutor’s Office. In a report sent to Pedraz, the agent now accused – who has the category of inspector – stressed that they were investigating « an organized group based in the provinces of Madrid and Toledo, which allegedly trafficked with large amounts of drugs. » They followed the track of one « Miguel », which the Anti -Drug Prosecutor « fully identified » as Miguel Urbán, according to his version. Then, « in order to advance the investigation, various consultations were made to the police databases on the people around them »: « Because at that time it was a meaning meaning of Podemos, among the consultations made, the name of Pablo Iglesias was included, » it was justified.
Police closed that investigation after « not finding rational signs of crime. » But we can frame it within the dirty war against formation. At that time several maneuvers were promoted to harm the party: such as the preparation and publication of the called PISA Report (acronym for Pablo Iglesias Sociedad Anónima)a false police document that claimed without evidence that Iran had financed the party and that was used to attack Pablo Iglesias; or contact With Venezuelan ex -presidents to declare against the political force – vary agents even traveled to the US (At the expense of public coffers) to try to convince one of them, former Minister Rafael Isea, with the promise that they would give protection and a new life in Spain. As the country publishedat least eight witnesses attribute those weaves to the Patriotic Policea group of agents that operated against political adversaries of the PP when Minister Jorge Fernández Díaz was in charge of the Interior.
« (The investigation against me) is something crazy, which demonstrates the impunity with which the police dome and the sewers of the State acted against anyone who could endanger their privileges, » Urbán denounced a few weeks ago, after learning by the press that the police had secretly investigated him.
We can ask that, to delve into this plot, the documentation of the Cardinal operation to Pedraz’s investigation was incorporated. However, the Prosecutor’s Office and the magistrate consider it unnecessary. Of course, both consider appropriate to listen to the agent. « It is about assessing whether it is not justified to ask for information from a political responsible for said party (Mr. Iglesias) for the fact that another person of the same party was investigated by an alleged transaction of narcotic substance, » says the Public Ministry in a letter, where he shows his suspicions that it was a « inadmissible » movement.
