The former mayor of the city of Maracena in Granada, Berta Linares (PSOE), goes to testify this Wednesday as an investigation for the kidnapping, on February 21, of the previous socialist councilor Vanessa Romero. Her assertion is a part of the separate piece opened by the Investigating Court quantity 5 of Granada to analyze the alleged participation of her on this matter and of the previous Town Planning councilor on the time of the occasions, Antonio García.
As the alleged materials writer of the kidnapping, Pedro GR stays in provisional jail, who when the occasions occurred on February 21 was a sentimental companion of Berta Linares. Despite profitable the municipal elections on May 28, Linares resigned from his act in early June after the media publicity and the “private put on and tear” that this case has precipitated him.
The decide agreed to open a separate piece to analyze his alleged participation within the occasions, complying with the choice adopted by the Civil and Criminal Chamber of the Superior Court of Justice of Andalusia (TSJA), which urged him to proceed “the important investigative procedures not practiced, exactly to have the ability to corroborate in an indicative approach its existence and prison scope”, with respect to the socialist Noel López, who’s registered.
The Investigating Court had despatched him the proceedings concerning him however the TSJA thought of that it was untimely and returned them requesting that he proceed investigating the case. If, as soon as the investigations that at the moment are going to be undertaken have been accomplished, the investigator considers that there are indicative parts in opposition to the regional deputy, he has the potential of remitting one other reasoned assertion to the Civil and Criminal Chamber.
Alleged city plot
For her half, the previous councilor of Maracena (Granada) Vanessa Romero testified this previous Friday earlier than the Investigating Court 5 of Granada as a witness within the proceedings opened for an alleged case of city illegality on this City Council.
Romero gave a press release in relation to 2 of the information which might be beneath the main focus of the investigation and confirmed in his testimony that there have been irregularities of their processing. One of them is expounded to the granting of licenses with respect to some workshops and the opposite a couple of month-to-month allowance to “coordinators of the municipal group”, in line with sources within the case knowledgeable Europa Press.
The mayor has not but testified about what might be the central and most substantial file of the investigation, linked to the development of a gasoline station within the municipality.
Vanessa Romero has been sustaining the existence of some city planning information that, as she declared in the beginning of the investigation, “negatively affected Noel López throughout his time as mayor” and in addition referred to alleged irregularities in City Hall information. Likewise, she identified that on the day of the kidnapping “she had supporting paperwork saved within the trunk of his automobile.”
Kidnapping
The kidnapping occurred on the morning of February 21, after the councilor had dropped off her youngsters in school and met the kidnapper, whom she knew as a result of till then he was the couple of the mayoress of Maracena. The defendant allegedly gave her as an excuse to get into her automobile that she had run out of gasoline and as soon as contained in the automobile he threatened her with a gun that the Civil Guard has confirmed was simulated.
At one level, he tied the mayor’s fingers and ft with bridles, coated her head, and compelled her to get into the trunk of her automobile, which she parked in a retailer in Armilla (Granada) earlier than leaving. She managed to flee and ask for assist, after which she reported the details to the Civil Guard.
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