Europe amends the Spanish justice

Mr. Javier Gómez de Liaño was a judge that was doing his job on the Audiencia Nacional, the special courts set in Spain to combat specific crimes such as corruption, drug traffic and others. Mr. Javier Gómez de Liaño was also, around 1.995, member of the Consejo General del Poder Judicial, the Council that governs the jugdes in Spain.

On 1.997, Mr. Javier Gómez de Liaño started investigating a possible appropiation of the deposits of the users of the pay TV in Spain, which belonged to the Grupo Prisa, a media group that comprises the radiostations SER and Los 40 principales, the newspaper El País and, of course, the TV channel Canal +. In front of this Grupo Prisa was Jesús Polanco. Jesús de Polanco was a business man who created all his fortune under Francisco Franco dictatorship, with companies such as Santillana, and contracts related to the books for the Spanish schools. After Francisco Franco’s death, Mr. Jesús de Polanco bet very loudly for the PSOE win, and since that established a relationship with this political party. It is not necessary to forget that, due to the leadership of the newspaper El País, Mr. Polanco had a very high power of influence, and the PSOE knew that, utilising this newspaper (and also the SER radiostation) on its propaganda efforts and actions.

Due to this relationship, Mr. Polanco obtained the license of Canal +, one of the three new TV channels, and the only channel that was under a model of pay-tv. More than that: taking advantage of the socialist influence, MR. Polanco buyed the first radiostation Antena-3, a unique situation in the world on which the second company bought the first one. A court pronounced a judgment indicating that this purchase needed to be undone (judgment not fulfilled neither by the different PSOEs governments nor by the PP governments).

On the investigation that was done by Mr. Javier Gómez de Liaño, Mr. Polanco and the Grupo Prisa used all its power not only to separate Mr. Gómez de Liaño of the case, but also to destroy him and his reputation. Under this, the Grupo Prisa accused the judge of prevarication. And they obtained. And the Supreme Court, with a majority of judges on that supreme court were leftists and so they were not impartian. And not only they dismiss the investigations of Mr. Gómez de Liaño; they condemned Mr. Gómez de Liaño for prevarication, preventing him for being a judge. One of the judges were Enrique Bacigalupo, an Argentinian leftist judge in Spain. Very strange, but let me remember that the PSOE created a new method for being a judge that allowed some “recognized prestige” people to become a judge without having to pass the usual examinations; a method that allowed leftist people to become judge with no experience on the Spanish laws and regulations. Other judge was Gregorio García Ancos, linked to the PSOE. And the third judge was José Manuel Martínez-Pereda, that expressed a opposite position of the two previous judges.

When Mr. Aznar become president of the Spanish government, Mr. Gómez de Liaño was reprieved, but after a great pressure of the PSOE and the leftists judges, encouraged, of course, by Mr. Polanco’s Grupo Prisa, he was not allowed to return to the Audiencia Nacional. Mr. Liaño then resigned and become an attorney. He also wrote some books, some of them regarding the justice, and some novels (La casa de los Momos is a beautiful book).

Now, the Court of Human Rights of Strasbourg sentenced today that he had not an impartial judgement, and condemned the Spanish government to pay him 5.000 euro as indemnification. Good news for Mr. Gómez de Liaño, an honest judge, an honest person. And bad news for the Spanish justice. It is important to remember that the Spanish Constitutional Court refused the protection to this person on this case.

This is a real sympton of the politicization and the rot of the Spanish justice. And now Mr. Zapatero wants to renew the Consejo General del Poder Judicial and the Supreme Court, and seems that Mr. Rajoy is willing to contribute to this.

Everything more rotten.

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From here, I would like to express my deeper personal respect to D. Javier, and say to him, although I do not know him personally, that I am very glad about the news.

~ by gerenton on July 22, 2008.