Reuters, 28/01 14:53 CET
The former mayor of Sabadell (Barcelona), Manuel Bustos. EFE / File
Barcelona, Jan 28 ( EFE ) .- The defense of the socialist former deputy and former mayor Daniel Fernández de Sabadell Manuel Bustos has raised today nullity test case Mercurio, understanding based on eavesdropping and a targeted investigation “by military” by the Mossos with little judicial control.
At the start of the trial in the Superior Court of Justice Catalonia ( TSJC ) by Mercury separate case relating to the alleged recruitment “finger” of a tripartite exalted office in the city of Montcada i Reixac (Barcelona), part socialist lawyer excargos, Christopher Martell, has called expel the process wiretapping, which are key to support the accusation.
After discussion this request, which has opposed the prosecution, the hall of TSJC has agreed to settle in judgment invalid or not these plays, which, if considered, could ultimately affect the judicial route of over 50 pieces of the case Mercurio still remain open.
Martell has requested the annulment of proof in processing before the start of the trial of former secretary of organization and former deputy of PSC Daniel Fernandez, the former mayor of Sabadell Manuel Bustos, his brother and former councilmen Francisco Bustos and the Mayor of Montcada, Maria Elena Perez.
All face a prosecution request for two years in prison and six of disqualification for allegedly rigging a public tender to award a finger a square steering Urbanism.
The defense counsel has argued that tracks incriminating Fernandez Bustos and Pérez in this piece separately are flawed source because they are the result of three years of a secret instruction “that has much uniform and little judge” and was “directed” by military ” by the Mossos d’Esquadra.
According Martell, cause It is based on a “prospective inquiry” in which the researchers were “fishing”: “It was looking unequivocally Bustos. It is there with the reed-up, to see if something falls, “exclaimed the lawyer has graphically.
For the defense, the cause is based on insufficiently substantiated listens and” judicial guesses “for what they understood to have violated the fundamental rights of the accused, with a “lawless use” of a gag and a “grief” the secrecy of communications for “three painful years.”
For this reason, has asked the court, headed by the president of TSJC , Miguel Ángel Gimeno, examine your request for revocation tracks depending on suitability, necessity and proportionality for which they were authorized at the time.
“Of these powders come sludge now plays prosecute,” lamented Martaell, which has claimed that the wiretaps pose a “direct and brutal attacks” rights of the accused.
The lawyer pointed out that the “Mercurio case” was initiated following a complaint by a businessman who felt cheated by a PP councilor, assuming a distribution of gifts and, from there, the Mossos d’Esquadra forced wiretapping up to incriminate the former mayor of Sabadell, although it was not the initial reported.
The investigation of “Mercurio case” as defenses, is based on “listen and police guesses” where the court orders authorizing wiretaps were mere “stooge”.
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