The Court of Instruction Number 3 of Arrecife has summoned the councilor of the Cabildo and candidate of the Canarian Coalition to the Senate, Samuel Martín, to testify as investigated for the commission of possible crimes during the campaign for the last local elections.
The complaint was filed by the Socialist Party on May 25, when it addressed both the National Police and the Electoral Board after suffering an "attack" against its electoral advertising. Afterwards, from the Police Station they transferred it to the Court, which has already opened proceedings and last week took a statement from the complainant. In addition, two witnesses have identified Samuel Martín as the alleged perpetrator.
According to the complaint, the events occurred on the night of May 24 to 25, coinciding with the end of the campaign, when next to their posters appeared fences with messages "contrary to the PSOE" and "making an improper and illegitimate use of the party's symbols", which could constitute a crime against the Electoral Law.
"This is an unprecedented campaign, unworthy and of an unacceptable level of dirt, so much so that they have had to hide and place those despicable posters at night, in the dark and without identifying who is responsible for them," the island secretary of the PSOE, María Dolores Corujo, who at that time was a candidate for the Presidency of the Cabildo, publicly denounced at the time. However, she already advanced that they had received "calls with some data that possibly allow to identify the material authors of this authentic attack against democracy and the cleanliness of the electoral process".
Finally, thanks to those calls, in the course of this investigation two witnesses have already testified, who would have pointed to Samuel Martín as one of the people who allegedly placed those fences. For that reason, the judge has ordered him to be summoned for next Tuesday, November 19, as an investigated party, to answer for alleged crimes committed that night.
