The head of the investigative court number 41, Juan Carlos Peinado, decided to expel the pseudo-union Manos Médicas from the case against the wife of the president of the government, Begoña Gómez, for failing to present proof of payment of bail. The expulsion from the proceedings of this popular prosecutor, who was the one who filed the initial complaint, comes in a week in which the lawyer of Manos Médicas indicated that he would leave the defense because the case had become “a political controversy in the media.
In an order, dated Monday 24 November, Peinado decides to keep the association led by Miguel Bernard “aside”.
This Monday the pseudo-union was left without legal representatives in the investigation against the wife of the president of the government. The organization’s accused lawyer and prosecutor resigned from continuing to carry out the role, believing that “what was initially a legal assignment” has turned “into a political and media controversy”, reads a letter addressed to the trainer, to which EL PAÍS has had access.
“What was initially configured as a legal assignment (…) has gradually transformed into an issue whose exposition and treatment go beyond the legal framework to be placed in the context of political and media controversy”, criticizes the lawyer, in his resignation letter, which also underlines that Manos Liminas is not moved by the solidity of the legal arguments and that, instead, “they respond, to a large extent, to considerations of political expediency, impact on public opinion or ideological positioning”. It is something “legitimate”, he underlined, from the point of view of the organization itself, but not from that of the practice of law “based on independence, technical rigor and strict submission to objective legal criteria”.
