The magistrate highlights offences 408 and 451.3.b of the Penal Code, which punish the failure to comply with the obligation to prosecute offences and the concealment committed by officials.
Judge Pablo Llarena agreed to deduce testimony and send to the courts of Barcelona “for the appropriate legal purposes” the reports provided by the Mossos d’Esquadra and the Ministry of the Interior that explain the reasons why the former president of the Generalitat Carles Puigdemont was not arrested during his public appearance in Barcelona on August 8.
The magistrate considers that what is stated in these reports “prevents the exclusion of the participation of other non-apparent perpetrators in the offences provided for in Articles 408 and 451.3 b of the Criminal Code” (intentionally waiving the prosecution of the offences and the receiving of stolen goods respectively).
In an order released Thursday, Llarena said the reports provide a “detailed explanation” of the circumstances. in which the public appearance took place of the rebellious accused, as well as the reasons why his entry and exit from Spain were not detected and his arrest could not be carried out.
However, he adds, “despite the regional report expressing the difficulty of approaching the arrest of the accused within the group of people he joined and although it indicates the possible participation of three individuals in the escape, the reports do not reflect obstacles for the police. device to remedy the detection of the rebellious accused during his transit to the place where he joined this agglomeration of people who were waiting for him, nor the impossibility of effectively managing his surveillance and its subsequent scope, to the point of allowing his escape from the national territory. materialized territory.
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