Attorney General defends the appeal against Llarena's order so that there is no impunity with the repeal of sedition

BILBAO, 20 Ene. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Attorney General of the State, Álvaro García Ortiz, has defended the appeal presented by the prosecutors of the 'trial' against the decision of the magistrate of the Supreme Court Pablo Llarena to apply the crime of aggravated public disorder to the former president of the Generalitat Carles Puigdemont, with what it is intended to avoid that there are "spaces of impunity" after the repeal of the sedition.

After Judge Llarena has only accused Puigdemont of embezzlement, García Ortiz has affirmed that the possible "spaces for impunity" that could derive from the modification of the Penal Code "can be filled" with the application of the crime of public disorder.

In statements to journalists after the inauguration of Ana María Sola Ibarra as the new Vizcaya Provincial Prosecutor at the Palace of Justice in Bilbao, the General Prosecutor has indicated that he values ​​the discrepancy between the magistrate and the Public Ministry as any other "legal dispute".

"The rule of law is like that. If we do not agree, if the prosecutors who are handling the case of the process do not agree with the court order, they simply present their thesis, expressing their appeal," he indicated.

In this sense, he explained that the legal difference between the thesis of the examining magistrate and the representatives of the Public Ministry, "basically, is reflected in public disorder." "We understand that there are no spaces for impunity, that these spaces can be filled through the application of the criminal types that remain after the repeal of sedition," he asserted.

For this reason, "as is normal and natural in law", they will present their thesis "to the Chamber of the Supreme Court to see what decision it makes, but, of course, the vocation of the Prosecutor's Office is always to cover any space of impunity and that is why the Prosecutors have made that appeal."