The police leadership of former Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy will have to testify as being investigated before the National Court. This was decided by judge Santiago Pedraz who summoned, among others, the former Secretary of State for Security, Francisco Martinezand to the Deputy Director (DAO), Eugenio Pinofor his role in the so-called Patriotic Police. A group which, it seems, members of Podemos were investigated without any judicial oversight.
Martínez and Pino are joined by four other former senior police officials, including the former chief commissioner of the police’s Central Operational Support Unit (UCAO), Enrique Garcia Castaño; the chief of staff of the DAO, Jose Angel Fuentes Gago; the commissioner Andres Gomez Gordoas well as the former head of the Madrid Information Brigade, German Rodríguez Castiñeira.
This is what Pedraz established in an order issued this Friday and within the framework of the complaint filed by the political party Podemos against Rajoy’s patriotic police for alleged prospective investigations escaping judicial control. They assure that investigations were carried out on the people who made up the organization at that time.
The quotes considered in this writing to which laSexta had access will then begin October 28 with Martínez and García Castaño. The next day it will be the turn of Fernández Pino and Fuentes Gago, while on November 6 they will appear before Judge Gómez Gordo and Castiñeira. Likewise, the instructor also admits the practice of testimonies requested by Podemos to clarify the facts.
As LaSexta was able to confirm last July, the agents in charge of the Ministry of the Interior during the Government of the popular Mariano Rajoy carried out hundreds of queries in official databases of the police between 2015 and 2016. Their objective was to obtain information likely to damage the reputation of the purple formation which had just been born after the 15M social movement.
This police and extrajudicial activity would at the time constitute illegal spying on Podemos deputies. Among them were current members of the government and members of Sumar, such as the second vice president and minister of labor, Yolanda Diazor its counterpart in the Social Services portfolio, Pablo Bustinduy. Research has also been carried out on personalities such as Pablo Iglesias, Irene Montero or Ione Belarra, as well as Íñigo Errejón or Joan Baldoví.
However, the one who achieved the most results was that of the deputy Segundo González García, around whom around a thousand were achieved. Of course, it should be emphasized that This case that Pedraz is investigating is outside the Villarejo case.
