The National Court suspends a week the trial of Camps for the contract of Fitur to the 'Gürtel'

The court warns that if it continues as planned it could lead to a "nullity"

MADRID, 23 Ene. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The court that is judging the former president of the Generalitat Valenciana Francisco Camps since Monday for the alleged irregularities in the award to Orange Market, one of the companies in the 'Gürtel' plot, has suspended the oral hearing for a week due to access problems to the documentation that some parties have suffered.

"We must stop and take a lapse of a week", announced the president of the court José Antonio Mora, who explained that if "unfortunately some party is left defenseless" it could lead to a "nullity" and that the trial would have to "start over three months or two years later".

This decision has come after Camps' defense reported that some parties had found it "impossible to access" part of the documentation related to the process. "There are documents that we cannot access," he pointed out.

The magistrate explained that the Chamber, "aware" of the need to "guarantee the right to defense", has decided to grant a period of one week so that everyone has "time to access the office" and ask the technicians for access to relevant documents.

But it is also that, Mora explained, the Valencian Generalitat "has presented a brief with provisional conclusions" that has been notified this Monday to the court itself, which has not been able to notify the parties.

Legal sources have explained to Europa Press that the Generalitat itself has modified its initial letter to request greater compensation for civil liability for the alleged irregularities.

"You are unaware of the content of this letter and the court has received it today, so it has been impossible to transfer it. Your defense depends on the content," explained the judge, who made it clear that "unfortunately not no choice" but to pause.

"It is something that happens in this type of process," explained the magistrate in the face of complaints from some of the lawyers, insisting on the problems in access to the cloud by some parties. "It is not a question of this week. Throughout these months we have been told repeatedly, and it has not been completely solved," he has had an impact.

Thus, Mora has affirmed that "the idea" of the court "is that the trial does not have additional delays." "No day of those indicated is going to be modified. We will try to move forward during these days. We are going to respect the schedules. I regret the suspension but they are things that happen", he has settled.

Since Monday, Camps has been facing an Anti-Corruption petition for two years and six months in prison for alleged irregularities in the contract for the Valencian exhibitor at the Fitur 2009 edition.

In statements to the media upon his arrival at the headquarters of the National Court in San Fernando de Henares, Camps has assured that he did not take a single euro in his pocket "for the actions of the plot.

In this context, he has shown his intention to return to the political front line once what he considers a "very long nightmare" orchestrated by the Prosecutor's Office ends, which he has accused of trying to "destroy" his work as regional president.

"We are talking about 70 minor contracts. Here no one of the people who are being tried has taken a single euro in their pocket. There is no embezzlement, unjust enrichment or money for the PP. They are contracts that the Generalitat's Attorney already said in its moment that they were well done", he maintained.

In this context, Camps has stressed that he was already tried for these events "in the cause of the suits." "I do not know what my government colleagues are doing or what I am doing here today in this new trial. I trust Justice and, like the other nine cases, that it ends in acquittal," he added.