The head of the office of former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont, Josep Lluís Alay, has accused the judge of the National Court Manuel García Castellón of "transforming the accidental death" of a French citizen during the protests called by Tsunami Democràtic at El Prat Airport in a "terrorist murder" to try to "criminalize" the independence platform.
In a letter sent to the Central Court of Instruction Number 6, to which Europa Press has had access, lawyer Gonzalo Boye asks the magistrate to redirect the case in which he is investigating Tsunami "to a channel of legality that implies the dismissal of the actions or the corresponding inhibitions in favor of the territorially competent bodies".
This writing comes after the instructor offered to appear to the family of the French tourist who died of a heart attack in the context of the riots that broke out in the fall of 2019 after the 'procés' ruling. The judge maintains that these incidents experienced at the airport could have "materialized" in the death of Jean Claude Scherzinger.
All this despite the fact that the forensic report sent to the courts that investigated the death spoke of a natural death due to a heart condition. García Castellón indicates that the diagnosis of this category is "determined by both the pathological findings and the circumstances of death." "Precisely, those circumstances were the collapse of the airport," the judge maintains.
In his writing, Alay's defense echoes an interview by 'El Español' with the daughter of the deceased Frenchman in which he assures that the death of his father is being "used." "If four years ago my father died due to a heart problem, why are they now considering reopening the case? I think they are using us for political interests," she maintains in it.
In the opinion of Alay's lawyer, it would be "interesting to know what the French authorities think about both the interpretation that this Court makes of a citizen demonstration and, if they persist in this attempt to criminalize the exercise of fundamental rights, that it has been kept in the "Ignorance about the fact that, now, there is an attempt to transform an accidental death into a terrorist murder and that a French citizen is the victim whose family, for more than four years, has been deprived of any of the recognized rights." In the law.
"Likewise, it would be interesting to analyze the consequences of benefiting a family from compensation, as a victim of terrorism, which does not correspond to not being one and, all of this, caused by the actions of this Court," he adds.
In this context, the letter draws attention to what it considers "a bizarre situation but from which a series of conclusions emerge that affect the viability of this procedure."
"There is a systematic non-compliance with the European standards applicable to the case. There is an improper use of public resources for purposes unrelated to any criminal proceedings. Citizens of another member state of the European Union are being placed in an undesirable situation." nor provided for in the Union's regulations but which, in addition, is leading to harassment of the relatives of the sadly deceased Mr. Scherzinger," says Alay.
Likewise, Puigdemont's 'right hand' indicates that "a misuse of power is being committed incompatible with the provisions of Article 9.3 of the Constitution and unethical use is being made of regrettable events that are far from being a murder." terrorist".
That is why, he concludes, the magistrate must abandon "this line of action." "Any other alternative will only lead us to a more perverse scenario than the current one and to an undue waste of quantifiable public money and resources, which does not speak well of how justice is administered when it comes to people who are part of an objectively identifiable group of people," he adds.
