The TSJC suspends Judge Alba's imprisonment until his health is verified

The Superior Court of Justice of the Canary Islands (TSJC) has agreed to suspend the imprisonment of the magistrate of the Las Palmas Court, Salvador Alba, until a forensic doctor examines whether the health problems he alleges constitute "a serious and incurable condition, incompatible with his entry into a penitentiary center."

Salvador Alba has a pending firm sentence of six and a half years in prison for crimes of prevarication, bribery, and document forgery, after the Supreme Court confirmed that he manipulated a criminal investigation to harm Judge Victoria Rosell, when she was a deputy of Podemos in Congress.

When the ten-day period that the TSJC had given him to voluntarily enter prison was about to expire, the magistrate requested the suspension of the execution of his sentence, arguing that he suffers from an illness that prevents him from traveling by plane and that in the Canary Islands there is no prison with an area where he can remain in safe conditions, without exposing himself to possible reprisals from inmates whom he himself condemned at the time.

According to the TSJC, "without prejudging the veracity" of the medical documentation he has provided, the Criminal Chamber has decided that a forensic doctor from the Institute of Legal Medicine of Las Palmas examine it and make the checks he deems appropriate, to determine "whether the state of health of Mr. Alba Mesa constitutes a serious and incurable condition, incompatible with his entry into a penitentiary center."

The TSJC suspends "the term for voluntary entry into prison" of the magistrate until it receives that report, "noting that only one day of the granted term remains."

However, the court does not accept Alba's request that his entry into a penitentiary center be postponed until he can travel by plane to a prison in the peninsula.

The Chamber believes that Alba has provided this documentation "on the last day of the granted term" with an "evident dilatory intention" and that, even if it is true that he cannot fly for health reasons, "there is no impediment whatsoever for the petitioner to have been able to travel by sea to the Iberian Peninsula."