The judge who investigates the dirty war to Podemos, Santiago Pedraz, has summoned to declare as a witness the commissioner Marcelino Martín-Blas, head of the Internal Affairs Unit during the first years of the government of Mariano Rajoy. Martín-Blas said in the Congress of Deputies on November 12 that “complaints and documents that there was some interference from the Police in terms of the activity of Podemos” had arrived.
The citation of Martín-Blas responds to the petition that had completed the popular accusation exercised by the PSOE in the case. The commissioner, already retired, said in Congress he had contributed to the table of the Commission for the Investigation of Operation Catalonia the complaint made by an ancient Venezuelan hierarchy, Nervis Villalobos, in which he alluded to the intervention of a member of the political Brigade, Bonifacio Díaz Sevillano, and of the lawyers José Aliste and José Luis Moreno Cela.
“Your summons are interested in order to declare about these extremes and any other information that could be relevant to the facts investigated [las maniobras contra Podemos] of which he could know in relation to his position or for the links he held with much of those investigated in this cause, ”the PSOE argued.
The figure of Marcelino Martín-Blas presents a special complexity. Belonging to the most conservative police sector, the arrival of the Popular party to power in 2012 earned him to become head of the Internal Affairs Unit.
His choice for the position was better understood after eldiario.es revealed that a secret group of agents tracked committed information of Catalan independence leaders and used as a group on the land to internal affairs, a unit that worked on the opacity necessary to carry out what should be their only task: investigate police suspected of having committed crimes.
Martín-Blas was Commissioner for Internal Affairs until April 2015, when the Interior Ministry gave to the pressures of José Manuel Villarejo and ceased. Both commissioners were confronted despite sharing the PP government project against their political adversaries.
José Manuel Villarejo accused Martín-blas of having attacked him and his surroundings by order of the National Intelligence Center and then began a war without barracks that ended when Interior Minister Jorge Fernández Díaz, glimpsed the danger of enraging Villarejo and dismissed the head of internal affairs.
Martín-Blas will be judged for the espionage to Luis Bárcenas with funds reserved in the Kitchen piece of the Villarejo case, one of the great offensives of the political brigade that nest in the Ministry of Interior during the first legislature of the Popular Party.
In his appearance before the Investigation Commission of Operation Catalonia, Martín-Blas was oblivious to any management beyond his functions while he was head of internal affairs.
The problem came when the deputies asked him about his visit to the prosecutors of the case of 3%, in full electoral pre -campaign, to ask them to propose the judge to register the CDC headquarters without him having any relationship with that case. On that visit, he publicly denounced by the prosecutors, Martín-Blas was accompanied by José Luis Olivera, a strut of the Political Brigade. “I have explained it a thousand times. I am a policeman. I was convinced that they had committed a crime. A thousand times I would do it,” Martín-Blas tried to apologize.
The individuals mentioned by Martín-Blas to refer to the attacks on Podemos, the Chief Inspector Bonifacio Díaz Sevillano and the two lawyers, appear profusely in the case that is followed in a court in Madrid against an alleged group of police, lawyers and even an Israeli agent to extort the Venezuelan hierarchs who wanted to reside in Spain and protect themselves from the demands of extradition of their country and the United States. These hierarchs have declared that the PP police dome repeatedly inquired with information with which to attack Podemos.
The statement of Martín-Blas in Congress will be incorporated into the instruction of the cause instructed by Pedraz for the dirty war to Podemos. The investigation advances at an unequal pace. Despite the revelations of witnesses admitting superiors orders to attack Podemos, the Prosecutor’s Office opposes a multitude of proceedings proposed by the affected party and, in this case, by the PSOE.
The statement of Martín-Blas is agreed in a providence of Pedraz that has followed the criteria of the Prosecutor’s Office of the National Court, also by refusing many of the requests of the Socialists. Among the latter investigating the ‘golden’ destinations in embassies that received several members of the political brigade after allegedly participating in the dirty war. Either the emails of the corporate accounts of the police.
Another police witness
On the other hand, the judge has agreed to cite as a witness Agent 111.129 of the National Police Corps, which he also declared before the Commission for the Investigation of Operation Catalonia. The PSOE claimed that this agent would have irregularly delivered a citation to Nervis Villalobos, one of the Venezuelans required by the police to get information against Podemos.
Villalobos responded that day that he was already in contact with another police unit and identified and later, the accused Bonifacio Díaz Sevillano would have asked explanations to the agent cited as a witness.
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