Judge María Eulalia Chanfreut, first instructor of the Barbate case – In the same Gaditano municipality – he has denounced before the Civil Guard that they have punctured the wheels of his vehicle and have sprayed him with paint when he had parked at the door of his house. The accused acts denounced occurred on March 8, as reported on Thursday the Francisco de Vitoria (AJFV) Judicial Association, which has urged the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) to regulate the compensation of damage to the members of the judicial career that are related to the exercise of their functions. “These events cause a deep concern in the judiciary,” said Sergio Oliva Parrilla, AJFV spokesman. “That is why” added, “it is essential that we have personal and material guarantees that protect us. And we have demanded it to the General Council of the Judiciary and the Ministry of Justice.”
Chanfreut works as a substitute judge attached to the Courts of First Instance and Instruction Numbers 1 and 2 of the Cadiz town of Barbate. According to his story, the morning of March 8, when he went to take the car, he found that he had the four punctured wheels, had been sprayed with paint both in the hood and on the roof and on the sides, and the rear symbol of the manufacturer’s mark had been stolen. The judge denounced what had happened to her in the Barracks of the Civil Guard of Barbate (Cádiz) and accompanied him with photographs of the damage, whose cost of repair has anticipated. The author or authors have not yet been identified, as reported by the association in a statement.
The AJFV association, the second with more affiliates, claims that the National Court assumes the competence of the crimes “related to drug trafficking”, “regardless of the scope in which the effects of them are displayed.” “This competence distribution would, ultimately, avoid the temptation to try to condition the members of the judicial career in the investigation and prosecution of these crimes,” they add. At present, the National Court assumes cases of drug trafficking whenever they are committed by organized groups and produce effects in different provinces.
The Association sent on March 17 a letter to the Judiciary to urge the constitutional body to regulate a procedure to compensate for damage to assets of the members of the judicial career that are related to their functions, something that until now does not exist for Spanish judges. “This protocol could be processed via regulation or regulatory modification and would benefit all active judges and magistrates who suffer material damage in property of their property or those for professional use assigned by the administration of justice,” explains the association. The cases that would be included would be those who have an unknown author, a known author who is insolvent, and provided that the link between the damage and the exercise of the jurisdictional function is proven.
The AJFV considers that “it is the case” of what happened to the substitute judge of Barbate, of which he emphasized that he instructed the cause in which a little over a year ago and that. Those first involved were exonerated after spending five months in provisional prison thanks to a one that concluded that they had not been the ones who rammed the patrollera, while. In addition, Chanfreut investigated the possible criminal responsibility of the commanders of the Armed Institute that ordered the intervention of the agents that night, a cause that the Provincial Court of Cádiz concluded last November at the conclusion that the crime was the exclusive responsibility of the crew of the Narcolanche and could not blame the two high controls.
The Unified Association of Civil Guards (AUGC), a collective that denounced in the courts the deficiencies in the operation and that requested to hold the controls for a crime against the right of workers for not allegedly facilitating the agents the necessary means to act that night, has condemned “with absolute roundness” this attack. “What we need is not fear, but more means, more protection and more institutional support,” they have asked.
The Police Justice Union (Jupol), a majority in the National Police, has also sent its support to the judge who has suffered the attack and condemned it: “demonstrates the absolute impunity with which the drug traffickers feel,” they have valued.
