“Maybe they’re afraid of what comes out or what they might find,” he says, suspecting that “someone” doesn’t want to “stir up more shit.”
SEVILLA, 8 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) –
Antonio del Castillo, father of Marta del Castillo, the young Sevillian woman for whose murder in 2009 Miguel Carcaño was sentenced to 21 years and three months in prison, has publicly criticized this Tuesday the recent conclusion of the investigation and filing of the corresponding separate judicial piece in search of the body of his daughter; alleging that “nobody set a date” for said search and considering that everything is “a consequence of a bad police investigation and a bad instruction.” “They are covering each other’s asses. The judge to the Police and the Police to the court,” he asserted.
Antonio del Castillo has appeared this Tuesday before the media, to evaluate the orders issued in this regard on September 21 and October 26 by the Court of Instruction number four and the Third Section of the Seville Court, respectively, after some time ago, the Court of Instruction number four, in the framework of the piece corresponding to the search for the body of Marta del Castillo, attended to a request from the family so that said line of investigation covered the “raw data” of mobile phones related to the events.
In this framework, on September 21, the Investigating Court number four issued an order, giving account of the “reports issued by the operators” of mobile telephony regarding the terminals of Miguel Carcaño and Marta del Castillo, for their transfer to the appointed expert so that the same “present report, agreeing to file this piece as long as” said report is sent.
The Third Section of the Court, on its side, issued an order on October 26, dismissing an appeal by the victim’s family, against a previous order from February authorizing an expert to access the “raw telephone data” of the mobile telephones that Miguel Carcaño and Marta del Castillo had at the time of the events; but excluding from said measure “the rest of the telephone terminals”, alluding to the cell phones of other people tried for the crime, as is the case of Carcaño’s brother, Francisco Javier Delgado; his girlfriend María García Mendaro, Carcaño’s friend Samuel Benítez or the young Francisco Javier García, known as El Cuco.
The first three, let’s remember, were acquitted after the trial held in 2011 against the adults accused of this crime, while in the case of Cuco, he was convicted by a Juvenile Court for covering up the murder perpetrated by Carcaño and, already this year, the Criminal Court number seven has sentenced him and his mother to two years in prison for the crime of false testimony, in their appearances as witnesses in the aforementioned trial held in 2011 against adults.
The Third Section of the Hearing dismisses the appeal of the victim’s parents “since the new doctrine of the Supreme Court is applicable (…), which considers the investigation period to have expired without previously having agreed to extend it, not having been interested in the accusations said pronouncement, for which it declares “the investigation phase has concluded.”
Given this, Antonio del Castillo has argued that “nobody put a date” on said separate piece for the search for his daughter’s body, rhetorically raising whether there is a deadline to search for the victims “of the Civil War”, an extreme that he has exposed expressing all his “respects” to such victims and their families.
In his opinion, the Court has used a legal precept that “does not correspond” to apply in this case, because it does not cover “investigations” regarding possible perpetrators of crimes, but rather the search for mortal remains. To the point, he rhetorically asked if the prosecutor in the case “is doing his job or wants to end this issue”, because in his opinion the Public Ministry “should have requested the extension”.
In this sense, Antonio del Castillo has considered that the decision of the Court derives from the fact that it “does not know what to do” in the face of the previous action of the head of the Court of Instruction number four, to authorize “in principle” the investigation of the telephones phones of “each and every one of the accused” initially, to later “retract” and reduce the investigations to the terminals of Carcaño and his daughter. That turn, according to him, he already seemed “suspicious”.
“Perhaps they are afraid of what comes out or what they can find,” he said, considering that the head of the Court of Investigation number four “messed up” and, given this, “someone” would have given the instruction to “finish ” with the subject to not “remove more shit”.
Thus, he has insisted that everything is “a consequence of a bad police investigation in principle and a bad judicial investigation”, before which “they are covering each other’s ass”. “The judge to the Police and the Police to the Court. Corporatism and the screwed up are us”, he has asserted.
In any case, it has confirmed that the victim’s family is going to “follow the rules of the game”, going to the Constitutional Court through a request for amparo, once the Third Section of the Court does not foreseeably admit the incident of annulment foreseen before said instance by the decision to declare the investigation of the matter concluded.
