The senator of the PP, José Manuel Baltar Blanco, has rejected that he has committed a crime against road safety for driving in an official car at 215 kilometers per hour by denying the Civil Guard about the speed, since he maintains that he never exceeded 200 km/h, the minimum for it to be considered a crime.
The former president of the Ourense Provincial Council also appeared this morning for half an hour before Judge Ana Ferrer, who had summoned him to testify voluntarily before requesting, in his case, a request from the Upper House, once he stood up last week. to the magistrate because his lawyer was sick.
In statements to the media, his lawyer Juan Ramón Montero explained that "the case is resolved" because they have already been held accountable for having paid the fine administratively in addition to the withdrawal of six points from the license, so that "it cannot be reopen" a procedure that "has already been subject to sanction".
But something much more important, he specified, is that "it did not constitute any criminal act" since it "never" traveled at a speed greater than 200km/hour. That speed is the minimum to be considered a crime, which is always 80 kilometers more than the maximum established in that section, which was 120 kilometers per hour. The margin of error is 10 km, therefore, anything from 210 is a crime.
In this way, he has considered that the request is "inadmissible" since he understands that "there is no viable criminal procedure" and everything that has arisen around what happened is "regrettable."
Asked about the Civil Guard documentation that puts the speed at 215 km/hour, the lawyer denied the armed institute by saying not only that "it was not like that" but that "the Civil Guard said that it was not greater than 200 km " And that's what happened". "Any other alteration would be an irregularity," added the lawyer, who has demanded from the Supreme Court "equality before the law" which "lately is an unfriendly topic" in relation to the amnesty law.
The Supreme Court opened a case against Baltar when it found that he could have committed a crime against road safety when last April he was traveling at 215 kilometers per hour on a section of the A-52 highway, near the Zamora region of Sanabria, limited to 120.
On September 27, the Criminal Chamber received testimony of a quick trial and urgent proceedings sent by the courts of Zamora and Puebla de Sanabria due to Baltar's arrest when he was appointed senator.
Initially, Baltar was going to be examined in the Investigative Court of Puebla de Sanabria through a quick trial, but on the first occasion it was suspended due to the non-appearance of his lawyer and the second time because he refused to comply with the penalties of the Prosecutor's Office (1,800 euros in fine and the ban from driving for a year) upon understanding that he had not committed a crime, so the case was handed over to the Criminal Court of Zamora.
Once appointed senator by the Parliament of Galicia, the Criminal Court number 1 of Zamora agreed to inhibit and refer the proceedings in favor of the Supreme Court.
