"I have had a meeting with Colonel Diego Pérez de los Cobos, happily restored by Justice to the head of the Madrid Civil Guard Command. A position from which he should never have been removed." With this brief message, the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, has summarized the meeting that, for a little less than an hour, she held this Friday with the Colonel Chief of the Benemérita Command who was restored to his position last 1 of August.
During the meeting, held on the eve of Ayuso's trip to Barcelona to, along with practically all of his government team, attend the demonstration called by the Catalan Civil Society with the slogan Not in my name. Neither amnesty nor self-determination, the president of the Community has conveyed her gratitude for the work carried out by the nearly 5,000 Benemérita agents in the region.
Subsequently, the president also held a reception with the Chief Admiral of General Services and Technical Assistance of the Navy (AJESAT), Juan María Ibáñez Martín.
The origin of her dismissal was a controversial report provided to a Madrid judge who was investigating the then Government delegate in Madrid, José Manuel Franco, in relation to a possible crime against health by allowing demonstrations for Women's Day on the 8th. -M 2020, days before the health crisis was declared and the covid pandemic was certified.
The investigators, led by Pérez de los Cobos, issued a harsh report against the Government of Pedro Sánchez, holding it responsible for not prohibiting the demonstration on March 8 when the infections were already uncontrolled.
The report was delivered to the instructor without informing the then general director of the Civil Guard María Gámez and therefore the Minister of the Interior. After her release, it was announced that Gámez recorded in writing that the command was relieved for "not reporting the development of investigations and actions of the Civil Guard (...) for knowledge purposes." Gámez requested information from the colonel on several occasions about the judicial investigations, despite the fact that, being a judicial police officer, he imposed a duty of reserve and caution on the agents.
Pérez de los Cobos appealed to a Contentious Court of the National Court, which agreed with him. However, the Court reviewed the appeal by the State Attorney's Office and agreed with the latter, alleging that as a discretionary position there was no irregularity in the dismissal.
The high command, who had asked to return to his position in the Madrid Command, did not give up and went to the Supreme Court, which has just upheld his appeal.
The high command, who had asked to return to his position in the Madrid Command, did not give up and went to the Supreme Court, which ended up agreeing with him, arguing, among other things, that Marlaska exercised a "diversion of power" and that is why he considered that the relief was "illegal."
