The First Section of the Provincial Court of Las Palmas has annulled the sentence that condemned the former president of Ademal Raquel Córdoba for insulting two agents of the Civil Guard.
In addition, it annulled the previous trial and "all procedural actions" carried out by the Criminal Court and the Investigating Court number four of Arrecife, of which Ricardo Fiestras is the head, going back to the procedures of the abbreviated procedure.
The Criminal Court had sentenced Raquel Córdoba to ten months of fine (with a daily fee of 12 euros) as the author of a crime of insults against agents of the Benemérita of Seprona in Lanzarote.
The events date back to June 2020, when the former president of Ademal and animal rights activist published a message on social networks reproaching the work of these officials and in which she stated that they were "charged for not doing their job" and for "omission of duty" and called them "vile, cowardly and of little professional value".
In the conviction issued on October 5, the Chamber also warned that if two fees were not paid, she would be sentenced to subsidiary liability of one day of deprivation of liberty. She also had to assume the payment of costs and compensate the agents with 1,000 euros each.
The Prosecutor's Office, which was not present until now, asked to revoke this sentence and return the actions to the abbreviated procedure. Raquel Córdoba's defense also filed an appeal that was not accepted. In this sense, the Public Prosecutor's Office stressed that the Court of which Ricardo Fiestras is the head had not transferred the actions carried out and that it understood that its action is "mandatory" as it is a crime "prosecutable ex officio".
The Public Prosecutor's Office based its appeal on the "breach of the rules and procedural guarantees", understanding that it should have "intervened" in this criminal case.
The ruling of the Provincial Court, against which no appeal is possible, concluded that the abbreviated procedure should be returned to and the Public Prosecutor's Office should be transferred.