It's as if they believed it was a mirage. That the "Reyes" case, Operation "Unión" and Operation "Jable" were just a bad dream that they are beginning to forget, and that they intend for society to banish from their...
It's as if they believed it was a mirage. That the "Reyes" case, Operation "Unión" and Operation "Jable" were just a bad dream that they are beginning to forget, and that they intend for society to banish from their minds.
Now, they are puffing out their chests again. The jet set wants to shine again, to clean up the uncomfortable stains of illegality in their hotels, while they continue to pave the way for their new businesses, always with the excuse of the good they do for the people, whom they continue to look at as poor ignoramuses.
But also, they try to polish their muddy names, at the cost of tarnishing those of others. That, specifically, is what the businessman Juan Francisco Rosa tried to do, by taking two Cabildo technicians to court. Leopoldo Díaz and Esteban Armas had become an annoying obstacle to his interests, but not because they had a "manifest animosity", as he tried to allege as a collegiate excuse, but because they were ensuring compliance with the law, as the Court has now determined, by dismissing the lawsuit that Rosa filed against these two technicians.
He has not been the only one. Other businessmen and lawyers charged in the main cases against corruption opened in Lanzarote, have tried to remove these two technicians from their functions, using all means at their disposal. And it is that certain sectors continue to act with the same arrogance and impudence with which they have always acted. As if they thought they could control everything. As if they believed that their "good times", in which even Justice "slept" while multi-million dollar businesses were developed in Lanzarote, could return.
The problem is that sometimes, despite the effort that some judges and prosecutors have made and continue to make in recent years in Lanzarote, it even seems that the facts prove them right. That impunity has not ended. Unfortunately, that is the feeling that many citizens may have when they see what is happening, for example, with the "Unión" case.
If it was scandalous that they left the magistrate César Romero Pamparacuatro out of the case, it is equally worrying that the current judge has had to call out the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Justice of the Government of the Canary Islands, which have been denying her the human and material resources necessary to move forward with the case. Now, yes, everything is promises. But it remains to be seen if they will be fulfilled.
Since the "Unión" case began, awakening a wave of hope in Lanzarote, it seems to have found nothing but obstacles in the Administration. And that only undermines society's confidence in Justice. Because no matter how much independence of powers exists in Spain, the reality is that it is the politicians who decide what economic and material resources to allocate and what not, and also those who appoint the representatives of the General Council of the Judiciary.
For an entire Ministry of Justice, is the payment of a commission for services really so burdensome, which would not even be equivalent to the salary of a judge, since it would not be full-time? Could it be that all the judicial bodies, from the Superior Court of Justice of the Canary Islands to the General Council of the Judiciary, have considered this reinforcement necessary, and that nevertheless the Ministry has repeatedly denied it?
For institutions of this caliber, the money we are talking about is real pocket change, so the refusal is even more incomprehensible. And one can only think that either they don't care at all whether the bottom of corruption in Lanzarote is reached, or that there are much more murky motivations, about which it is inevitable to speculate.
Fortunately, there have been many people willing to get to the bottom of it and face the obstacles. The new judge has done so by making clear the abandonment of almost a year that this case has suffered, and by again requesting reinforcement, but also a computer system and even something as simple as means to make photocopies of the summary.
The previous one, César Romero Pamparacuatro, did so by filing an appeal when they removed him from the "Unión" case, and he is still waiting for an answer. Could it be that up to six internal reports recommended his continuity in the case and that, nevertheless, the General Council of the Judiciary decided in April not to renew his commission for services, after four months of waiting, and therefore of a standstill in the investigation?
In this scenario, it is not surprising that some puff out their chests and act as if nothing had happened here, and neither that society returns to skepticism and distrust. However, the facts also show that there are those who, despite the obstacles placed in their path, continue to work to end impunity in Lanzarote. And in them, there is the hope that everything that has been done on the island in recent years has been in vain.
