EFE: Garzón affirms that Spain can be sanctioned for eliminating universal justice

20 March 2014

CONTROVERSIAL LEGAL MODIFICATION

The former judge of the National Court encourages his former colleagues to rebel against the reform while the TC does not rule

El exjuez Baltasar Garzón, durante el seminario sobre 'Justicia universal o impunidad', organizado por el grupo parlamentario de la Izquierda Plural, esta mañana en el Congreso de los Diputados. - Foto: EFE
Former judge Baltasar Garzón, durante el seminario sobre 'Justicia universal o impunidad', organized by the parliamentary group of the Plural Left, this morning in the Congress of Deputies. – Photo: EFE

EFE / Madrid 18/03/2014

El exjuez de la Audiencia Nacional Baltasar Garzón ha advertido de que los diputados y senadores que han aprobado la reforma de la ley universal deberían sentir "temor" por haber sacado adelante una norma que "usurpa el poder judicial". In the halls of Congress, before participating in a conference organized by the Plural Left, ha destacado que España puede ser sancionada "sin lugar a dudas" for contravening international treaties.

Garzón has encouraged the magistrates to rebel and keep their cases open under the principle of universal justice until the Constitutional Court (TC) do not comment on the norm. Judge Santiago Pedraz has already challenged the Government by rejecting the file of the case of the murder of the Tele cameraman 5 José Couso, one of those that would be canceled with the reform.

El que fuera magistrado de la Audiencia Nacional ha subrayado que no mantiene esta actitud por "animadversión" to the PP Government, but it would be equally critical against the Executive of any sign. "Hay que empezar a mirar algunas definiciones en el Código Penal, porque ordenar el sobreseimiento de una causa me parece de una gravedad inusitada porque es competencia de los jueces", Garzón has emphasized. The judges, He added, tienen la obligación de "no acatar las leyes inconstitucionales".

"Una aberración jurídica"
"Esto es lo que ha hecho el juez Pedraz y es lo que tienen que hacer los demás hasta que no se resuelvan estas cuestiones que están pendientes sobre una ley exorbitante y claramente contraria a los tratados internacionales ratificados por España", has pointed out. In his opinion, supone una "aberración jurídica" that legislators order the retroactive archiving of cases opened in a manner contrary to the conventions against torture, genocide or disappearances. Y espera que los comités que velan por su cumplimiento emitan una "condena contra España".

 

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