He affirms in Congress that he will set the criteria of the public ministry in the murder of Miguel Ángel Blanco and all the causes
Prosecutor Álvaro García took advantage of his appearance before the Justice Commission of Congress to be elected State Attorney General to respond to the criticism that had been accumulating since his predecessor, Dolores Delgado, resigned for health reasons. Among them wasto the controversy raised in relation to the reopening of the case for the murder of Miguel Ángel Blancor so that the then leadership of ETA would answer for him.
And to settle it definitively has announced that it will rule on the statute of limitations that the Public Ministry will apply in this regard after listening to the Board of Prosecutorscomposed of those of the highest category within the race.
Previously had denied that there was a “Miguel Ángel Blanco case”, because “ETA has been defeated thanks to the commendable work of the National High Court Prosecutor’s Office”, and asked for respect for the victims. He insisted that no political directive had ever been given and described as “serious” the leaking of internal emails between the chief prosecutor and his subordinates for the harm they caused to the victims, he said.
“The prescription, and I know something about criminal law, is declared at an opportune procedural moment, not at the moment in which the case at hand is. The Public Prosecutor’s Office National audience has never hindered open investigationss in the different courts, whose reopening will always have the support of the public ministry,” he assured.
He then went into the technicality. He explained that the criteria maintained by the prosecutor in the case, Vicente Gonzalez Motato start counting the statute of limitations from the arrest of the alleged perpetrator and not when the events occurred, has never been endorsed by the Criminal Chamber of the National High Court or by the Supreme Court, but in any case, it is It will adopt a definitive criterion after listening to the Board of Prosecutors of the Chamber.