The State Attorney General, Álvaro García Ortiz, considered yesterday that there is a “reversal of roles of the rule of law” in the alleged investigation of the former top prosecutor of Catalonia Martín Rodríguez Sol by the Ministry of the Interior when it was directed by Jorge Fernández Díaz and revealed by La Vanguardia and ElDiario.es last week. For this reason, he described as “very serious” that this investigation was carried out, which put the structure of the rule of law in “danger,” as he explained in an interview on TVE, in which he endorsed, one day after taking office , the proceedings opened on Monday by the Catalan Prosecutor's Office to clarify this matter after learning of the aforementioned information.
"It is serious," he indicated, "that the person who has the obligation and duty to investigate, which are the prosecutors, the leadership of this territorial structure in the autonomous community of Catalonia is the one investigated without being informed of it or there being any cause or obligation." to do it; “It is the absolute reversal of roles in a rule of law,” said García Ortiz.
The Prosecutor's Office is struck by the document that accompanies the information "of an allegedly official appearance with the letterhead of the internal affairs unit of the general directorate of the National Police Corps" and that does not bear the signature of any head of internal affairs or date. some.
For García Ortiz, the opening of the proceedings is a “transcendent and timely” issue because “the structure of the rule of law” was put in danger. “Let's see what we find through the evidence,” he said, remembering that the prosecutors “are not investigated,” but rather they are the ones who do it.
Likewise, he justified that until now a macro-case has not been opened regarding the Catalunya operation because “it remains to be determined if it existed.” And he added that much documentation is already included in open cases or that have been previously addressed.
In any case, he did not want to rule out any scenario. And he pointed out that we have to see where “this journalistic investigation is going, what data has procedural significance and can be incorporated into the cases.” If it is necessary to open new investigations, he pointed out, “of course it will be done.”
In a decree, signed on Monday by the chief prosecutor of Catalonia, Francisco Bañeras, the public ministry opened proceedings to clarify the attempt to investigate the former chief prosecutor, with the apparent objective of seeking incriminating evidence against him. The aforementioned decree also highlights that this investigation “of a pre-procedural nature” was never brought to the attention of any judicial body or the prosecutor's office despite the fact that the agents in charge “were legally obliged to do so.”
In the alleged report that was released last week, it is explained that the investigation seeks links between the prosecutor and Unió Democràtica de Catalunya and the commissions managed by the lawyers of the aforementioned party.
