Esperanza Aguirre, former president of the Community of Madrid and head of the PP in the region, declared Monday as charged in court for an alleged crime of disobedience for his performance in the traffic incident starring last April in Madrid’s Gran Via.
The owner of Court number 14 of Madrid, Carlos Valle, has cited Aguirre at 11:00 courts in Madrid Plaza de Castilla, where the court appearance will be followed with a great informative expectation because the case may complicate the aspirations of politics to be the next PP candidate for mayor of Madrid.
The ‘popular’ leader, who will attend his accompanied by attorney declaration because it has been charged for a crime, has repeatedly stated throughout this process that is willing to lend judicial declaration to clarify the incident on April 3.
Your citation is due to the decision earlier this month by the Provincial Court of Madrid for instructed the subject as an alleged crime of disobedience to municipal agents who participated in the incident and not as a failure, as advocated by the judge himself and the Senior Prosecutor of Madrid.
The statement Aguirre is one of the first performances in the open preliminary investigation the abbreviated proceedings against the president of the PP in Madrid and former president of the Community of Madrid.
By 30 September, at 10.00 hours, have been cited as witnesses six officers mobility and two municipal police officers involved in the traffic incident starring politics.
The facts
The events under investigation occurred on Thursday, April 3 at the confluence of the streets of Gran Via and Plaza Callao, when Aguirre, who had parked his car wrong, told them: “What? ¿Bronquita and reporting? Come for me because I’m famous . Have the plate. Report to the vehicle, “according to the complaint lodged with the police by moving agents of the City of Madrid.
Here left the scene without providing any documentation that was required , ignoring mobility agents who told him he could not leave, colliding with one of their bikes without also addressing the indications of the municipal police that followed, as stated the Court of Madrid.
In that order, issued earlier this month, the judges of the Sixth Section of the Provincial Court considered that the facts are of “provisional” character of criminal contempt of Article 556 of the Penal Code.
According to the Court, the facts alleged against Aguirre could pose “a tenacious, stubborn and rebellious, determined and decisive disobedience, represented by multiple specific acts of disobedience” Mobility agents and Municipal Police.
Judicial Procedure
With this decision, the court partially upheld the appeal of the popular accusation exerted by Transparency and Justice from the initial decision of the owner of the magistrate court 14 of Madrid, Carlos Valle, to handle the case as a misdemeanor trial.
In this way, Hearing Madrid returned the case to Judge Carlos Valle so that besides taking statements from witnesses and Aguirre, perform the appropriate steps to determine whether the facts constitute a crime or misdemeanor.
If further consider that the incident should follow the procedure of missing, Instruction judge can judge and condemn a fine, but if it finds that the matter is a criminal offense, the case should go to trial a Criminal Court. However, both decisions are appealable.
Instruction judges only hold trials for crimes (called snap judgments) when defendants acknowledge the facts and support the commission of a crime, which does not occur in this case.
Considering that Esperanza Aguirre committed criminal contempt, the policy could be sentenced to a term of six months to one year in prison.
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