The Court decides that the former president does not go to jail for his cancer, news that gives him some “tranquility” at a very delicate moment of health and four years after his sentence
He is an “exhausted” man. Jose Antonio Grinan He has just turned 77, on June 7, and the Seville Court has just suspended his entry into prison by the ERE. “A Good News by a very bad news about his state of health”, lament those who know him very closely. The taste is bittersweet. “Now he is somewhat calmer”, say those few people with whom he continues to talk in his pants. Practically his family and a handful of friends. The decision to suspend entry into prison gives him “some peace of mind” but the treatment of his prostate cancer, radiotherapy and hormonal, has him, his friends admit, “made dust”. He is “exhausted”. The therapy leaves him “dragging” for days, he hardly has the strength to move. That is why his family attended with “great concern” the Rally of reports between the Court and the Institute of Legal Medicineto make a final decision on whether or not to go to jail.
The former Andalusian president, who held that position between 2009 and 2013, clings like a burning nail to the Constitutional Court, which has admitted an appeal for amparo in the case of the ERE, which will be debated in full. Something for which still months left. He remains convinced of his innocence and increasingly sure that the High Court will be able to overturn his conviction for embezzlement. A penalty that the Seville Court imposed on him four years ago, when he imposed six years and one day in jail. The prevarication penalty, which was imposed on the other former Andalusian president, manuel chavesentails disqualification but not imprisonment.
individual vote
The Supreme Court confirmed that sentence although two magistrates drew up a forceful dissenting opinion to which his defense clings to ensure that, as Minister of the Treasury, he participated in the design of public budgets but not in the execution of the items, for which reason they believe that did not embezzle The so-called political piece of the ERE judged the distribution system with which for a decade (2000-2009) they were distributed €680 million for workers of companies in crisis. A system that was considered “arbitrary”, “discretionary” and “lawful knowing” to “avoid controls”.
The Court of Seville, after a tortuous coming and going of reports and requests to the Institute of Legal Medicine, has definitively suspended the prison sentence for the former Andalusian president for the next five years. According to sources close to the former president, he is an endorsement to gain momentum although his only objective, they warn, is for the Constitutional Court to make it clear that he did not embezzle “because the fraud was in Employment”. According to what the forensic doctor said in various reports, only the last conclusive one, Griñán’s entry into prison was currently “a vital risk”, so it was not recommended that he go to jail.
The former president confirmed that he had “high risk” prostate cancer & rdquor; before the court just One week before the expiration of the term given by the Court of Seville to carry out the sentence. He had the final diagnosis eight days before. From that moment, along with the great shadow that he had been dealing with for years, that of the ERE, another great threat appeared, that of cancer that made his state of health even more vulnerable, already deteriorated because he always lived with great regret all day. ERE process. From that moment on, he fights, his family says, “to prove his innocence” and because the disease allows him to do it and celebrate it.
secluded from everything
Griñán resigned from the Junta, left the seat of senator and suspended his membership in the PSOE, between 2014 and 2016. He always says that he has done everything “not to hurt”. The day the Court read his sentence, he explained that he felt “that the air was getting thinner and that the noise in the room was muting,” he recounted in his novel ‘When nothing is expected. Writing that volume, which narrates how the Transition was made, kept him on oxygen while the ERE case was being investigated and judged. His detractors regret that other convicts are in jail with the same disease, such as the Deputy Minister of Employment Agustín Barberá. Another convicted person, former counselor José Antonio Viera, has just received the third degree after six months behind bars also with cancer.
The Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office did not oppose his entry into jail. The private accusation exercised by the PP left the decision in the hands of the Court, although warning that it should also reflect on “collective security” and without committing too wide a margin of “discretion or arbitrage.” It is the Court that decides to suspend the prison for five years. The Constitutional Court must also rule on this matter, although without further mystery or consequences after it is already guaranteed that, for the moment, the former Andalusian president will not go to jail. On what it must pronounce with effect is on the conviction for embezzlement. Griñán clings to that thread of hope to continue fighting his ill health.