Clash of prosecutors over the application of the amnesty law. The prosecutors who prosecuted the procés trial reject the order of the state attorney general, Álvaro García Ortiz, who has urged to include the crime of embezzlement in the amnesty, and calls it “inadmissible and contrary to the law”.
In a harsh writing, to which laSexta has had access, the prosecutors of the process ratify themselves in your reports and reject the arguments put forward by García Ortiz to justify the “unconditional application of the amnesty law” to embezzlement in the cause of the process. In fact, they assert that these are “manifestly insufficient to legitimize the viability and compliance with the law” of the order issued by the attorney general.
“In our opinion the order is inadmissible and contrary to the laws by not adjusting to the most basic criteria of legal logic and criminal legality required in the interpretation and application of the regulations,” they say in the document, signed by Javier A. Zaragoza on behalf of the four prosecutors of the process: Fidel Cadena, Consuelo Madrigal and Jaime Moreno, as well as himself.
In that same document, they invoke article 27 of the Organic Statute of the Public Prosecutor’s Office to hold the Board of Prosecutorswhich García Ortiz has finally called for the next Tuesday and which will be attended by 38 prosecutors. Specifically, the aforementioned article 27 states that if “the prosecutor who receives an order or instruction that he considers contrary to the laws or that, for any other reason, he considers inadmissible, he will inform his chief prosecutor through a reasoned report” .
Furthermore, the prosecutors of the process warn that They will not sign the document in which the change in criteria regarding the amnesty is finally reflected. A writing that, as laSexta has learned, the attorney general will not sign in the first person.
