With your permission, SirDon Antonio Castro Feliciano, Sir, with your permission, and with all the respect that the high responsibility that corresponds to you as president of the Superior Court of Justice of the Canary Islands deserves, ...
With your permission, Sir
Don Antonio Castro Feliciano, Sir, with your permission, and with all the respect that the high responsibility that corresponds to you as president of the Superior Court of Justice of the Canary Islands deserves, I would like to express my enormous surprise at some of your statements, in which you show your concern because the so-called Jable operation "damages the image of Lanzarote by appearing every day on national news, but above all, the image of those accused in the case."
In my naivety, I thought you would be concerned about ensuring that the Investigating Judge enjoyed your full support. That neither he nor the prosecutor could feel pressured in the slightest. That they had as many means and support as they needed.
In my proclaimed naivety, and recognizing my total ignorance of the intricacies of the bodies responsible for administering justice (not to be confused in any case with Justice itself), I thought you would be concerned to know what has happened, why we have come this far, why after so much litigation, so much journalistic and even judicial denunciation, there was among certain politicians, businessmen and technicians the practical certainty that they were unpunished.
Don Antonio, Sir, did you know that, in certain cases, some time ago and before the start of Operation Union, some prosecutors did not attend the initial interrogations of the former mayor of Yaiza, who has since been found to have an inexplicable fortune? Did you know that, in some of the judgments that have annulled illegal licenses, the account of irregular practices is given as proven facts and no testimony has been deduced for the prosecution to act? Did you know that in some cases a prosecutor, different from the previous one, has been prevented from acting because there was only knowledge of the alleged crime through the press? Did you know that conferences organized by the Canary Islands administration of justice have been held in one of the illegalized hotels?
Excuse me Don Antonio, Sir, but if anything has been highlighted by the magnificent instruction of Operation Union, it has been a more than shameful abandonment by the justice system (not to be confused in any case with Justice itself).
Of course Don Antonio, Sir, I assume the same reproach in a personal capacity and in the name of my party, because the responsibility for Lanzarote having reached this point affects us all to a greater or lesser extent and the PSOE, and I as its island leader, will not be exempt from apologizing to the citizens, the great victims of the events that are now being revealed.
But please, Don Antonio, Sir, with all due respect, do not worry again about the image of Lanzarote. Especially now, when that image has already been miserably crushed by those who have made the law wet paper, sowing the conviction of their impunity. The image of Lanzarote will emerge strengthened, clean, like the image of a society capable, with the help of Justice (in this case Justice itself), of purging intolerable behaviors, incompatible with a society in which the most essential democratic values prevail, among them, and in a prominent way, equality before the law.
Sir, Don Antonio, the press reflects an ugly, obscene and miserable reality. Think that if that reflection is unpleasant it is nothing more than that, the reflection of a sick reality that now needs to be healed.
Thank you for your role as president of the Superior Court of Justice of the Canary Islands and may there finally be Justice.
