The defense of Javier López Madrid managed to delay until next year the trial for harassment, coercion and injury against Elisa Pinto, which was to take place from Monday against the businessman. He will sit on the bench alongside retired commissioner José Manuel Villarejo. Three days ago, López Madrid’s lawyer argued in vain that he had not had time to prepare for a trial whose date had been set ten months ago and, this Thursday, three days later He later submitted a medical report for anxiety which the judge considered sufficient grounds to postpone the hearing.
The proximity of the trial against López Madrid and Commissioner Villarejo has awakened movements that reproduce the most effervescent era of the police sewers and their surroundings. Eleven days before the hearing was scheduled to begin, a lawyer presented a brief to the court assuring that Villarejo’s accusation was the result of manipulation and consultation between Dr. Pinto and a commissioner, Jaime Barrado, who investigated on the harassment of women for a time.
The events that this lawyer denounces today occurred more than nine years ago, when the doctor recognized Villarejo during a photographic examination to which Commissioner Barrado summoned her. According to the plaintiff attorney, he and another attorney heard from Commissioner Barrado that it was all a setup to frame Villarejo.
The identity of these two lawyers is crucial to understanding the last-minute complaint filed by one of them. The person signing the document is José Luis Moreno Cela, a name that is repeated in the summary of the Villarejo case as a member of the commissioner’s entourage.
In fact, Moreno Cela was recently indicted in one of the documents accused of having participated in the maneuvers aimed at attacking the lawyer of Luis Bárcenas and preventing the publication of information that the lawyer would keep and which was harmful to the PP . The one known as “Legal Kitchen” also included the accusation of the number two of the Interior at the time, Francisco Martínez, and of Villarejo himself, but it was ultimately filed by judge Manuel García Castellón.
In the complaint, Moreno Cela assures that Commissioner Barrado would also have made these confessions in the presence of another lawyer, José Aliste, who would be willing to corroborate them. And who is José Aliste? Well, another regular on Commissioner Villarejo’s agenda and accused in a Madrid court for participating in an episode of the dirty war against Podemos, the Caranjuez affair, responsible for the political brigade during the PP government.
The president of Criminal Court number 10 of Madrid, who will judge the allegations of harassment, coercion and injuries inflicted on the doctor, reacted by issuing a three-line order in which she agreed to transmit the document to the parties and, “once verified ”, would be returned to its author.
The drafting has, so far, had no additional impact on the process. But apart from that. The ABC newspaper headlined: “New witness accuses commissioner in charge of Dr Pinto’s case of manipulating evidence. » The publication in the newspaper is dated September 26 and does not mention the judge’s response returning the brief, agreed during a proceeding on September 18, eight days before publication.
Trial postponed eleven years later
The first complaint of harassment within the police force against Dr. Pinto was filed in the fall of 2013. Just when it seemed that, eleven years later, the time had finally come to judge the facts, another movement provoked his postponement to 2025. Despite the fact that López Madrid is represented by three lawyers involved in the procedure; the concern that appears in the medical report presented by the head of the legal team convinced the judge to postpone.
According to judicial sources, this report comes from a medical center which assures that the lawyer describes anxiety linked to his work, which is why he recommends 15 days of reduction of his tasks and taking an anxiolytic. The collapse of justice forces the postponement to translate into months of waiting. A long list of those appearing, in days expected to last a month, will not find a courtroom available in Provincial Court until well into next year.
This list of witnesses includes some of the most prominent members of the PP’s political brigade, including its architect, Commissioner Eugenio Pino, then operational director of the police. Or Commissioner Andrés Gómez Gordo, recently convicted in the City of Justice case and who will sit on the Operation Kitchen bench alongside Pino.
In the woman’s harassment trial, the two police officers will have to answer for maneuvers aimed at preventing Villarejo from submitting to the parade of recognition that finally took place in 2017 and which preceded his accusation for allegedly piercing the doctor three years earlier . telling him: “López Madrid wants you to shut your mouth.” The prosecution demands 13 years and two months in prison for each of the two accused, Villarejo and López Madrid.
Dirty war on the Internet
Dr. Pinto’s defense requested the Criminal Court to intervene in the broadcast of two YouTube channels created on September 13 and 21 that attempt to disseminate and position in Internet search engines the defense thesis, according to which Dr. Pinto invented the harassment of López Madrid when it was she who persecuted the businessman, son-in-law of the deceased Juan Miguel Villar Mir.
The doctor was accused in a complaint filed by López Madrid on the matter, but a Madrid court ended up suspending the proceedings, which lasted for years, after the businessman’s investigating judge, with the support of the Provincial Court, proposed to try him together. Villarejo. López Madrid was convicted for the Caja Madrid black cards and has not yet served in the national court for the hiring of Villarejo and in the case of Lezo, for corruption with Ignacio González.
