Camps denies his friendship with 'El Bigotes' and assures that his statement is "a scandal": "It is a spectacular assembly"

He says that if he went to his wedding it was to be "polite" and that his relationship with the leader of Gürtel in Valencia was "strictly professional".

MADRID, 20 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The former president of the Generalitat Valenciana Francisco Camps has denied this Monday the alleged friendship that would unite him with the leader of the 'Gürtel' in the Valencian Community, Álvaro Pérez 'El Bigotes', assuring that his statement before the court that judges both for alleged irregularities in the award to Orange Market is scandalous.

"All this is a spectacular montage that there is nowhere to take it from," Camps assured in statements to the media at the end of the oral hearing session that focused on the statement, precisely, of 'El Bigotes', who has argued that "it would be obscene to deny the obvious", alluding to the intimate connection between the two.

It should be remembered that Camps is facing a request from the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office for two and a half years in prison for the alleged irregularities in the award to Orange Market, one of the companies in the 'Gürtel' plot, of the contract for the Valencian exhibitor of the Fitur 2009 edition.

The former Valencian president has maintained that the relationship with Pérez "was strictly professional" since he was "sent by the party at the national level" to take charge of the electoral campaigns of 1999, 2003 and 2004. "The relationship was 'strict sensu' the acts of the party", has repeated.

Questioned about his presence at the wedding, precisely, of 'El Bigotes', Camps has been blunt. "I was absolutely courteous," he maintained, being asked about the words of affection that Pérez directed him at that moment.

"What am I going to tell you. Have you gotten up at a wedding to recriminate the man who is getting married? In 2008 I didn't know what these people were doing. I thought they were doing party acts, period. And what do you say? That he is the best president, that he is an affable person*", Camps clarified.

The former president has also been asked about another of the conversations that has been alluded to in plenary. Specifically, one in which 'El Bigotes' took the opportunity to congratulate him on Christmas Eve, referring to him as his "soul friend". "It's a conversation on Christmas Eve in a country with a huge number of people who celebrate the night. That afternoon, people with peace of mind and the absolute relaxation of home can say these kinds of things," he said.

On the other hand, Camps has also been approached about the alleged relationship that "El Bigotes" also had with some of his relatives. "That he says that seems to me an absolute scandal; it is absurd. It is an absolute lie. Don't you realize?" Asked the former Valencian president, who has directed his criticism at the anti-corruption prosecutor Concepción Nicolás.

In this sense, the former leader of the PP has maintained that it is "a scandal that a lady who wears the heck of Spain in her toga allows" statements such as those of 'El Bigotes'. "I was a public servant and I would not have used characters of this type to harm the prosecutor, who is the one who is harming herself and damaging the Spanish judicial system," she has made ugly.

In his opinion, it is "effrontery" that the State Attorney General's Office and, specifically, Anti-Corruption, "dedicate themselves to these tasks." Something, he has assured him, that would not happen "in a justice of the peace in the smallest town in Spain." "There they would have told him: but what is this? Why are you seeking the persecution of Mr. Camps?", He added.

Camps, who has defined the situation as "a western movie", has asserted that the Prosecutor's Office "needs" to be sentenced. "He is aware that if I am acquitted, and there is no other way than acquittal, there is nothing at all", he has added.

Lastly, Camps was asked about the call to attention that the president of the court, magistrate José Antonio Mora, directed at him, who urged him to maintain order and respect the statement of the rest of the defendants.

"I was talking and I asked the lawyers", he excused himself, assuring that he was not worried during the interrogation of 'El Bigotes' or that of Gürtel's 'number two', Pablo Crespo. In fact, he added, during this Monday's session he took the opportunity to read a book about the recently deceased Joseph Ratzinger to "disconnect".