The AN summons Villarejo on September 1 to undergo a medical examination and find out if he can attend the trial

On September 5, the sessions of the oral hearing resume, which is already approaching the hearing for sentencing.

MADRID, 24 Ago. (EUROPA PRESS) -

the Fourth Section of the Criminal Chamber of the National High Court, the court that judges the commissioner José Manuel Villarejo for three of the separate pieces of 'Tándem', has agreed to summon him on September 1 to undergo an examination at the hands of the forensic doctor to find out if he is able to attend the oral trial that resumes on the 5th.

This summons, which legal sources confirm to Europa Press, comes after last August 17 the coroner of the National High Court informed the court that he had not been able to carry out the medical examination of the commissioner at his home because when he approached no one opened the door despite knocking insistently.

It should be remembered that the court that judges him decided to maintain the sessions scheduled for July despite the fact that the commissioner warned that he had suffered a stroke. However, he exempted him from appearing until September and postponed any intervention in his defense until then, so that he could recover.

The coroner, in his report, criticized the insistence of the presiding magistrate, Ángela Murillo, in doing the exam in a non-working month like August, but indicated that despite not having seen him, with the available information he did not see any inconvenience in going to the trial in September.

In that report, to which Europa Press had access, the expert explained that the episode suffered at the end of June "should not be an insurmountable obstacle to the performance of their usual activities, since the pain can be controlled by taking analgesics" .

Regarding the possible double vision - which, according to what he pointed out "can become incapacitating" -, he said that "it can be controlled" with prism glasses. And he recalled that Villarejo last year came to court with a patch over his left eye for "a similar episode."

Thus, the coroner assured that if the clinical evolution follows "a normal course and without complications", he saw no problem for Villarejo to go to the facilities of the Institute of Legal Medicine for his examination in September.

And he said more, because he asserted that from the medical data provided by the defendant it follows that "Villarejo has not had a cerebrovascular accident" and that "relevant alterations" are not appreciated. He specified that what he has had is "a complete paralysis of the III cranial nerve with a possible microischemic cause, since a compressive origin has been ruled out."

The circumstance arises that, due to the insistence of the court to send the Police and the forensic doctor to Villarejo's home, the commissioner's defense has presented an incident of recusal against the magistrates Ángela Murillo, Carmen Paloma González and Fermín Javier Echarri " due to the sudden loss of due objective and subjective judicial impartiality" when understanding that this order "conceals the true purpose" of "monitoring daily throughout the month of August the family home of the defendant at different times each day".