ALERT: “It’s like a medical check-up. They will always find something for you”
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Emilio Cortés, lawyer for the musician David Sánchez, has criticized the “paradigmatic investigation of a prospective nature” against Pedro Sánchez’s brother. This is how the lawyer spoke this Thursday, during the first session of the trial of the known as the Hermanísimo case, which has revealed the unprecedented image of a direct relative of a current head of the Executive sitting in the dock. “This is as if we are going to a medical examination. They are always going to find us something… This is ‘let’s go and search’…”, the lawyer has reproached the judicial investigation, instructed by Judge Beatriz Biedma. David Sánchez is accused of having occupied in 2017 an artistic position in the Badajoz Provincial Council that would have been convened and designed ad hoc for him because he is the brother of the current President of the Government. This Thursday, Cortés criticized that the “politically inspired” complaint that gave rise to this procedure, presented by Manos Médicas, accused the artist of, among other things, work absenteeism. “The root is rotten,” he said about the complaint, which he considers “political.” “Absenteeism has never involved a criminal offense of any kind…”, said Cortés, who also criticized that the complaint was based on press reports and included statements that were not true about alleged illicit enrichment or alluding to possible tax fraud. Cortés has called the complaint “a pure invention” and criticized it for trying to link David Sánchez with an alleged plot led by businessman Víctor de Aldama, recently tried by the Supreme Court for corruption crimes along with former minister José Luis Ábalos. “This is a lie, a fallacy!!”, the lawyer shouted in the courtroom, which earned him a call of attention from the president of the court, the magistrate José Antonio Patrocinio, who asked him to moderate “the tone of voice.” “You only have to see the bias of the popular accusations…”, the lawyer has also reproached. Which ones? Are the popular accusations of this procedure? Make Yourself Heard, Vox, Iustitia Europa, Christian Lawyers, Liberum and Clean Hands. All of them are unified under the legal direction of the latter’s lawyer. Likewise, Emilio Cortés considers “prescribed” the crime of “acceptance of illegal appointment” attributed to his client, brother of the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez. The artist, almost a decade ago, was appointed coordinator of the activities of the Badajoz conservatories. Today, he sits on the bench of the Provincial Court of Badajoz, accused of having accepted said position thanks to his relationship with Pedro Sánchez, who, in 2017, was not yet president of the Government but had already been appointed general secretary of the PSOE. “We are talking about an instant, not permanent crime,” Cortés stressed.”[El supuesto delito] “It coincides with the administrative act by virtue of which the common subject accepts an appointment that is illegal,” he said. That is, a decision from 2017, almost ten years ago. “And it is absolutely prescribed,” Cortés stressed during the processing of preliminary issues in the trial of the Hermanísimo case. David Sánchez’s lawyer has also recalled that “no one” appealed administratively the procedure that led to that appointment.
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International media coverage is expected to intensify as more updates become available from official sources.
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Source: This article was originally published by El Español – Home and adapted for our international English-speaking audience.
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