The Interior dismissed him resulting from lack of confidence after not reporting on a judicial investigation into the 8-M demonstration within the outbreak of Covid-1 The National Court confirmed the choice of Minister Grande-Marlaska to alter the colonel’s place, because it was a cost discretionary Now, the Supreme Court accepts the Civil Guard’s enchantment in opposition to the earlier choice and revokes his dismissal
Justice has as soon as once more agreed with Colonel Diego Pérez de los Cobos in his authorized battle in opposition to the Ministry of the Interior after being dismissed in September 2021 as head of the Armed Institute in Madrid. Pérez de los Cobos, with a protracted historical past as an adviser to the Secretary of State for the Interior, was dismissed by Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska after failing to tell the director of the Civil Guard about an open judicial investigation in opposition to numerous socialist leaders for authorizing the demonstration 8-M feminist on the gates of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Now, it’s the Supreme Court that agrees with the command of the Civil Guard, which has been dragging a authorized battle in opposition to the Interior since he was faraway from his publish in Madrid to go to Weapons Intervention. Specifically, it’s the Fourth Section of the Third Contentious-Administrative Chamber of the Supreme Court that in the present day upheld the enchantment filed by Pérez de los Cobos, in a call on which there isn’t any enchantment, and that in line with sources oficiales annuls his dismissal resulting from “lack of confidence”.
Pérez de los Cobos was in cost, as head of the Madrid Command, of the judicial police workforce that was in cost, on the request of a courtroom within the capital, of investigating the authorization course of for the feminist demonstration that on March 2020 took to the streets of Madrid in the course of the early phases of the pandemic. Its goal was to search out out if the Madrid authorities, led by the Madrid Government Delegation, disregarded the well being suggestions by authorizing the focus of 1000’s of individuals on the streets of the town. During the investigations, the investigators obtained concise directions from the decide in order that the case she was carrying was saved as high secret and solely she was knowledgeable of the progress.
Terminated since September 2021
However, when the investigation grew to become recognized and the courtroom summoned a number of political leaders to testify, Interior dismissed Pérez de los Cobos for insecurity. The colonel then went to courtroom and the National Court agreed with him within the first occasion, annulling his dismissal. The Government appealed then and in second occasion, the Contentious Chamber dominated in any other case and maintained that the choice of the Interior was appropriate, as it’s a discretionary place appointed by the powers that the Law grants to the director of the Civil Guard , María Gámez, now resigned resulting from her husband’s connection to a judicial investigation for the alleged diversion of public funds in Andalusia.
Now, it’s the Supreme Court that returns to rule in favor of Pérez de los Cobos, annulling his dismissal and confirming the sentence of the Central Court that was pronounced in first occasion. Supreme Court sources have made the choice public, however the authorized reasoning behind it’s nonetheless unknown, for the reason that sentence shall be transferred to the events “within the coming days.”
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