Police Commissioner Andrés Gómez Gordo dissociated himself this Wednesday before the National Court from the dirty war against Podemos that the political brigade to which he belonged led in the Ministry of the Interior during the government of the Popular Party. Gómez Gordo, suspended from his duties due to his prosecution in the Kitchen case, appeared as an investigator in this other case and only agreed to answer his lawyer’s questions.
Gómez Gordo not only denied having participated in the parapolice maneuvers against Podemos, he also declared that he did not know that they had taken place, and he justified this during the few months he was assigned to the Deputy Operational Directorate , the epicenter of this activity. , and on his return to UDEF. Other police officers involved named Gómez Gordo as the main architect of the PISA report, the file with which the Interior tried to falsely link Podemos to the financing of Venezuela and Iran.
Commissioner Andrés Gómez Gordo was outside the police, acting as María Dolores de Cospedal’s “everyman” in Castilla La Mancha when the police picked him up because he had direct access to the driver of the Bárcenas family, who would become the main confidant of the operation against the police. former treasurer of the PP to try to save the party from its investigation into box B. In the Cuisine affair, Anti-Corruption is demanding 15 years in prison for Andrés Gómez Gordo for receiving stolen property, embezzlement and crimes against privacy.
Last February, Pedraz became the first magistrate to agree to analyze through criminal means whether the police leadership of the PP governments with Mariano Rajoy maneuvered illegally to harm Podemos and its leaders in the midst of the party’s rise. Already in his order of admission for treatment, the judge explained that for the moment he would not investigate the minister of the time, Jorge Fernández Díaz, nor the police director, Ignacio Cosidó, but that he reportedly investigating several of his subordinates and senior police officers. .
The complaint from Ione Belarra’s party emphasized that the people investigated, on the orders of Martínez and ultimately Fernández Díaz, “were responsible for carrying out prospective investigations without any connection with any police interest, without any judicial or public prosecutor’s control over the people who carried them out. the political organization Podemos.
The main objective, according to this complaint, was its subsequent leak to the media under the seal of the reliability of “police sources” and finally to discredit the party that Pablo Iglesias then led in the eyes of public opinion, as well as attack the compensation of its deputies and other public officials.
The consequences of this illegal police activity against the party, explains the complaint, are found in the headlines in eight different actions: from the investigation of Iglesias in the PISA report (on the false irregular financing of Podemos) to the leak of a “false” document of an account in his name at Euro Pacific Bank Limited or the manipulation of documents or internal police files to give the appearance of legality to the actions of the defendants.
Last September, a court of the National Court sentenced the commissioner on leave Gómez Gordo to three and a half years in prison in the case of the City of Justice, the Esperanza Aguirre project which did not start and despite which the police officer acted as head of security.
