All the councilors of Coalición Canaria in the Cabildo of Lanzarote have appeared this Monday in the Courts of Arrecife as investigated for a crime of documentary falsification, for the alleged falsification of the document on which they based to expel Juan Manuel Sosa from the group.
In the case of David de la Hoz and Tania Ramón Espinosa, they have availed themselves of their right not to testify and have refused to answer questions from the magistrate. As for the rest -Pedro San Ginés, Samuel Martín, Óscar Pérez, Domingo Cejas and Migdalia Machín-, they have answered the judge, but not the lawyer of the private prosecution.
However, Óscar Pérez has only answered questions related to the first crime that began to be investigated in this case, that of coercion, but not regarding the alleged falsity of the group's regulations.
It should be remembered that this procedure was initiated by a complaint from Juan Manuel Sosa against Pedro San Ginés, who was the first defendant in the case for an alleged crime of coercion. In the complaint, Sosa stated that he received threats from San Ginés -some of them in the presence of Óscar Pérez- to hand over his act in the Cabildo, and the Provincial Court ordered the Court to investigate him.
Later, Sosa presented an extension of the complaint, which was also admitted for processing and led to the indictment of the rest of the CC councilors.
This extension is based on his subsequent expulsion from the CC-PNC political group in the Cabildo, relying on an alleged regulation that, according to the councilor, “was artificially created to justify his expulsion", which "would imply a crime of falsification of a public document and another of violation of fundamental rights".
In his order, dated last May, the magistrate concluded that it should be “determined if the regulation of the CC-PNC group was an ad hoc creation aimed at artificially substantiating the expulsion of the complainant”.
