The court rejects "due to recklessness and bad faith" the challenge of Villarejo, who denounced surveillance at his home

The prosecutor accuses him of "abuse of law" and believes that he is trying to "hinder the processing of the procedure"

MADRID, 5 Sep. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The court in charge of prosecuting José Manuel Villarejo has rejected "outright due to recklessness and evident bad faith" the incident of recusal raised by the retired commissioner against the three magistrates, whom he accused of ordering daily surveillance at his home throughout the month of August.

The president of the court, magistrate Ángela Murillo, was in charge of explaining that the only thing that has been pursued "is to coordinate the work of the different people" so that the trial that is taking place in the National High Court and in which airs three pieces of the 'Tándem' macrocause: 'Iron', 'Land' and 'Pintor'.

Villarejo challenged Murillo herself, Carmen Paloma González and Fermín Javier Echarri "due to a sudden loss of due objective and subjective judicial impartiality" on understanding that the orders by which they sent the Police and the forensic doctor to her house covered up "the real purpose", which was to monitor him "daily throughout the month at different times each day".

However, the president of the court has stressed that what was raised "does not affect the merits of the matter at all" and has recalled that, in any case, Villarejo should have appealed "by ordinary means." "Thing that has not been done", she has settled her.

The retired Commissioner himself has been in charge of presenting in the session held this Monday the reasons that led him to present this latest incident of recusal against the three magistrates. From his point of view, the Chamber ordered without any "logical explanation" that "surveillance, control and monitoring" be carried out at his home.

"This defense understands that it is an undercover house arrest. The Police have been at my home every day (...) I do not know if with the intention that I not take a day of vacation," Villarejo denounced.

The retired commissioner, who has stressed that he suffers from irreversible injuries, has charged against the "conduct that unfortunately" the magistrates have sustained regarding his state of health. "These months I have not been able to help my lawyer in the fundamental tasks that are going to be substantiated right now and since I believe that I am not a passive element, I am the person who is risking his life, I have the right to participate in conclusions", has held.

The prosecutor, for his part, has flatly rejected the recusal incident, assuring that the brief presented by the retired commissioner was filed "spuriously and with abuse of rights to hinder the processing of the procedure."

In this context, the prosecutor Miguel Serrano has recalled that it was Villarejo himself who designated his address as the place where he would remain "for health reasons", in no case being this extreme an "obligation" interposed by the Chamber.

And it is that, from his point of view, "the zeal of the Chamber is reasonable and has been deployed to ensure that the forensic experts could examine Villarejo." "The action of the Chamber does not reveal any animosity or anticipation of the judgment that must be made on the assessment of the evidence," he added.

"Trying to extrapolate this postponement of the trial for health reasons, suspending it with serious damage to all parties, but in guarantee of the rights of the defense, cannot be projected in an artificial cause for recusal that must be rejected on the grounds that it was filed with manifest abuse of rights," concluded the prosecutor.