García Castellón’s intention to call them to testify causes the departure of at least six defendants from the country
MADRID, 11 Abr. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The announcement by the leader of Òmnium Cultural Oleguer Serra that he took up residence in Switzerland almost half a year ago means that at least half of the 12 investigated for their alleged relationship with ‘Tsunami Democràtic’ have left Spain while waiting of the application of the amnesty.
This revelation by Serra has caused two other investigators, the journalist Jesús Rodríguez and the businessman Josep Campmajó, to have revealed that they have also settled in the Swiss country in recent months. Precisely, both the general secretary of ERC, Marta Rovira, and the deputy of ERC in Parliament, Ruben Wagensberg, live in Switzerland.
Legal sources consulted by Europa Press point out that both Jaume Cabani, considered the treasurer of ‘Tsunami’, and the Italian banker Nicola Flavio Giulio would also have established their domicile outside of Spain, although without officially communicating it.
All of them, with the exception of Wagensberg – due to his status as a certified person – are being investigated by the judge of the National Court Manuel García Castellón. The magistrate issued an order this Monday in which he gave all of them 24 hours to provide their “unequivocal addresses” so that they could be notified of their summons to testify.
Other legal sources tell this news agency that the magistrate has not made any decision about new proceedings after learning that some of those investigated have left Spain.
It should be remembered that, in parallel, the Supreme Court is investigating both Wagensberg and the former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont – who enjoys immunity due to his status as a European parliamentarian -. In the case of the latter, a Junts candidate for the Catalan elections, his residence has been in Brussels since 2017.
Both the National Court and the high court are investigating the alleged role of the independence platform in the riots that occurred after the Supreme Court ruling that condemned the leaders of the Catalan separatist ‘procés’ in October 2019.
The journalist Jesús Rodríguez explained in an interview in ‘La Directa’ that he made the decision to go to Switzerland because “the leadership of the Spanish judiciary acts as a political party and intends to instrumentalize a criminal procedure to boycott the processing of the Amnesty Law.” . “My accusation is a preventive action against journalism. Be careful with what you publish and who you talk to. We are monitoring the messages with your sources and we will reinterpret them as we wish,” he maintains.
Campmajó, for his part, assures that his decision is motivated by police monitoring and fear of possible arrest and imprisonment. “I saw the police watching me on the street. The manager of the cafeteria I went to every morning saw them, and she told me ‘You already have them there’. You saw them, you recognized them and all they had to do was say hello,” he explained.
The judge of the National Court also investigates the businessman Oriol Soler; to Puigdemont’s chief of staff, Josep Lluís Alay; to the former secretary of organization of ERC Xavier Vendrell; and the ERC activist Marta Molina.
