A judge has been investigating the current mayor of Badalona, Rubén Guijarro, for about a year. of the PSC, to which an alleged crime against land use planning is attributed when he was a town planning councilor for this town, as EL PERIÓDICO has been able to confirm from legal sources. The news about this cause was published this Thursday on Twitter by the former mayor of the town, Xavier García Albiol, that has reproduced a copy of a document sent by a lawyer to the consistory. This has been the response of the PP leader to Guijarro’s statements on the prosecution’s accusation against the PP leader, who faces two years and 10 months in prison and another 10 years of disqualification for tolerating the installation of antennas illegal.
It seems that the socialist mayor of #Badalona He is giving lessons about me on TV, but he has forgotten that he has been accused of urban prevarication with a prison sentence of 1 to 4 years. We had respected the presumption of innocence, let’s see what he says about himself now. pic.twitter.com/ExzEjvWNfH
— Xavier García Albiol (@Albiol_XG) March 9, 2023
The sources consulted by this newspaper have assured that the judicial process began as a result of a complaint from the prosecution. A court opened proceedings for an alleged urban crime. The case focuses on the processing of files related to the use of orchards and supposedly illegal works without licenses discovered by rural agents in the Conreria-Sant Mateu area, in the Serralada Marina, which is a protected natural space. The objective was to recover those lands and carry out an urban restoration and, if necessary, proceed to penalize the infractions.
Guijarro, according to the legal sources consulted, limited himself to signing the initiation of the files, after the proposal made by the technicians, without taking charge of their processing. The current socialist mayor has requested this week that the case be archived, although the Badalona judge who is instructing it has not yet decided.
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“What a bad conscience Albiol must have to cloud it in this way. It is a controversy in a criterion of the organization. There is no indictment, nor order to open an oral trial as it does happen to him”, has assured this Thursday Guijarro when consulted by this newspaper.
“The dismissal of the case has been requested. He only wants to divert attention. If I were prosecuted as is his case, I would resign. But he has already shown us several times that he likes to hold on to the chair and the position. I don’t know how much more he will to put up with Feijóo a person prosecuted for prevarication and urban corruption, who was involved in the Pandora papers and who is part of its electoral committee. I am very clear about what I would do and what my party would do, “he stressed.