Francisco Martínez asks the 'Kitchen' judge to delete his personal chats because they contain official secrets

MADRID, 3 Mar. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The former Secretary of State for Security Francisco Martínez, prosecuted in the 'Kitchen' case, in which the alleged parapolice operation to spy on former PP treasurer Luis Bárcenas has been investigated, has sent a letter to the examining magistrate to denounce that since He agreed to incorporate into the virtual platform of the cause the full dump of his WhatsApp conversations, his messages are being published in numerous media despite having nothing to do with what was investigated, affecting official secrets and his privacy.

In the letter, to which Europa Press has had access, Martínez warns that "information appears regarding issues that are directly related to public security to which he had access at the time in which he held the position of Secretary of State for Security ", and points out that it is "classified" information under the Official Secrets Law, with the category of secret.

For this reason, Martínez requests the protection of the judge to order "the immediate elimination" of the platform of all the files "because their delivery to the parties is absolutely disproportionate, illegitimate from the point of view of the purposes of the treatment and seriously harmful to fundamental rights".

Martínez refers to the 23 files incorporated at the request of the defense of another of those investigated, the former operational deputy director of the Police Eugenio Pino. These messages, once uploaded to the cloud, are freely accessible to all parties, including the popular accusations of the PSOE, Podemos and IU.

He also points out that it was unnecessary to upload those chats that he maintains with journalists, police commanders, members of the PP and even with the former president of the Government Mariano Rajoy, given that the conversations that were relevant to the cause were already extracted by Internal Affairs and incorporated into a report. .

"The 23 files that are incorporated into the Cloud Platform by decision of the Court are therefore not related to the facts investigated in the case and contain the entire conversations in the WhatsApp messaging application maintained by Francisco Martínez", laments the defense.

In fact, he points out that in the publications that have already appeared in the media "some source of information from other countries, a regular collaborator of the Spanish information services, has been revealed."

It also focuses on the fact that his conversations with the priest Silverio Nieto have been leaked, and explains that in them "he alludes to issues related to the religious confession of Francisco Martínez, with his religious beliefs and practices."

Similarly, it indicates that intimate conversations with his father and his wife have been uploaded to that platform. "Hundreds of pages and thousands of conversations of personal, intimate and reserved content, with the wife of Francisco Martínez, typical of a marriage, with explicit references to situations and decisions related to minor children, health information of family members , details of the treatments and medications prescribed to both the spouses and their children, etc.

And he explains that this situation "causes personal harm that is difficult to describe, both to the person investigated and to numerous people around him and also to general interests, due to the public dissemination of matters that should be protected as classified information, or as personal data especially sensitive".

Thus, Francisco Martínez warns that "the unlimited violation of the privacy of a person, of his family and, specifically, of four minors, for reasons unrelated to criminal investigation and, therefore, absolutely unnecessary from the point of view of jurisdictional functions", is something sought by the applicants for the incorporation of the content of the telephone to the platform, that is, Pino himself.

It also disgraces the head of the Central Court of Instruction number 6, Manuel García Castellón, who has "consented and encouraged" by having authorized without any control or limitation the incorporation into the platform and, consequently, the dissemination in numerous social media.

He points out that this and the fact that certain notifications reach the press before those interested "is still another indication of the obvious (...), the media and political interest of this investigation, especially in the period prior to the holding elections to various representative bodies.

To this document already presented will be added another by his wife, M.L. Orozco, who appears in the chats, in which he will urge the elimination of these chats, alleging that they include "conversations of personal, intimate and reserved content, typical of a married couple, with explicit references to situations and decisions related to minor children, information of health of family members, details of treatments and prescribed medications".