The Official State Gazette (BOE) published this Monday, September 2, the retirement of the judge of the National Court Manuel Garcia Castellonwho was in charge of studying how the amnesty affects those investigated by “Tsunami Democràtic” until he filed the case, after the magistrate asked the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) to bring forward this day to October 16, the date on which it will meet 72 years old.
Concretely, the BOE published the agreement of June 20 of the Permanent Commission of the CGPJ declaring “the forced retirement due to age“of Judge Manuel García Castellón, until yesterday president of the Central Court of Instruction number 6 of the National Court. The decree is signed by the interim president of the CGPJ, Vicente Guilarte.
Last June, the CGPJ approved the request of the judge of the National Court to bring forward his retirement by October 16 -when he turns 72- on September 2. From the Six Instruction Center, García Castellón has been in charge of leading the investigations into cases such as the “Democratic Tsunami”, “Púnica”, “Lezo” or the so-called “Villarjo case”.
On July 9, he decided Archiving the case of the “democratic tsunami” after hearing the order of the Criminal Chamber that invalidates all the procedures agreed by the investigator over the last three years because the court extended the investigation on July 30, 2021, 24 hours after the deadline.
In the order, collected by Europa Press, the president of the Central Court of Instruction number 6 also agreed to send the testimony of his resolution, as well as that of the Criminal Chamber, to the Second Chamber of the Supreme Court “for their union and for other purposes” that take place within the framework of their procedure for special causes.
It is worth recalling that, after the judge sent a reasoned statement to the High Court in 2023, it agreed to investigate former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont and MP Ruben Wagensberg for terrorism.
