The Fifth Territorial Military Court, based in Tenerife, issued a ruling this Monday, July 30, declaring null and void a sanction imposed on the chief sergeant of Seprona in Lanzarote, Gloria Moreno, "following a complaint from the director of the Insular Center of the Island of La Graciosa presented to Colonel Ricardo Arranz, head of the Civil Guard Command in the province of Las Palmas", according to her lawyer, María Jesús Díaz Veiga.
"This complaint was considered sufficient by Colonel Arranz to, without even hearing her version of the events, open to Sergeant Moreno what would be the first of the disciplinary files opened in cascade against her, which, as is known, have been five, since August of last year", explains Gloria Moreno's lawyer.
According to her, this first disciplinary file ended "with the sanction of one day of suspension from employment and salary". In this regard, she explains that "even though it does not represent a serious punishment in itself", this resolution was appealed by the Seprona sergeant in Lanzarote because she considered that she was being accused "without any reason and because her rights were being violated".
After the corresponding appeals filed by her lawyer in this procedure, Alejandro Montero Fernández, the Military Court has now declared the sanction imposed null and void "for violation of her constitutional right to the presumption of innocence, as well as for violation of the principle of legality and typicality". "This means that there is no evidence against her that would justify the initiation of the file and that her fundamental right to be accused on the basis of specific facts has not been respected", says the lawyer María Jesús Díaz Veiga, who recently took over Moreno's defense.
Hope that the rest of the files "meet the same fate"
In her opinion, "this ruling is of great importance, since if in this first file, whose sanctioning resolution is now annulled, Colonel Arranz gave full credibility to the complaint of the director of the Isla de La Graciosa Island Insular Center, he also did the same by giving maximum veracity to the complaint of the veterinarian of the municipal kennel against Sergeant Moreno, giving rise to the opening of the fifth and most serious disciplinary file initiated months later against Gloria Moreno and which is awaiting resolution".
"In both cases, her superior believed wholeheartedly the version of those people who accused Sergeant Gloria Moreno, and, without previously carrying out any type of diligence aimed at finding out the basis of the same, urged the initiation of both files", affirms the lawyer.
According to her, the ruling of the Military Court of Tenerife carries out "a detailed and detailed analysis of the lack of evidence against Gloria Moreno and concludes that the complaint against her filed by the director of the Insular Center does not correspond to what really happened, relying on a recording provided to the process by Gloria Moreno". "It follows that the assessment of the evidence provided to the sanctioning file has been unreasonably carried out by the sanctioning authority", the ruling states in one of its paragraphs.
"It is the first time that a military court has ruled on one of the sanctions imposed on Sergeant Gloria Moreno. The decision adopted once again demonstrates that Gloria Moreno is right and that the files initiated against her lack the slightest foundation", points out the lawyer of the Seprona sergeant in Lanzarote, who has "the well-founded hope that those that remain to be resolved will meet the same fate".