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Gonzalo Boye, Andreu Van den Eynde and Jaume Alonso-Cuevillas appear in the list of those listened to with Pegasus
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Interventions with lawyers are especially delicate because they can include the strategies of their clients
The now lawyer Baltasar Garzon he was disqualified by the Supreme Court from practicing as a judge for having listened to the lawyers of the defendants in the Gürtel. It is the most paradigmatic case of the consequences that can have intervening lawyers’ telephones by the logical risks that this may entail for the right of defense of its various clients. That is why the fact that among the dozens of Catalan independentists spied on with Pegasus appear three lawyers extraordinarily complicates that the action detected has had the mandatory judicial authorization.
And there always has to be, even if the wiretapping was due to an action by the National Intelligence Center, which must request it from the judge of the Supreme Court appointed for it and which since 2014 is paul luke or its substitute, Andres Martinez-Arrieta. Hence, legal sources consulted by EL PERIÓDICO consider it difficult to believe that a magistrate of the high court could have authorized the telephone tapping of practicing lawyers.
In the list provided by the organization Citizen Lablinked to the University of Toronto, there are traces of Pegasus during the years 2020 and 2021 in a total of 67 phonesamong which are those of lawyers Gonzalo Boye, Andreu Van den Eynde and Jaume Alonso-Cuevillas. The first has exercised the defense of the former president of the Generalitat Carles Puigdemont since he fled from justice, a circumstance that has not been an obstacle for the lawyer to represent him before the Supreme Court, the Constitutional Court and before the European justice.
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In fact, the last time he was seen defending himself in public and the time they fled with him (Clara Ponsatí, Toni Comín and Lluís Puig) It was at the hearing that the Court of Justice of the European Union held on April 5 to decide on the margins to deny a euroorder. He has also defended the ‘ex-president’ Quim Torra for disobedience.
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Next to the CJEU sat Van den Eynde, who defended the president of the ERC, Oriol Junquerasin the ‘procés’ trial, in which he ended up sentenced to 13 years in prison, although on the 5th he did not represent him, but the general secretary of the same party, Martha Rovirawho fled to Switzerland when summoned by the Supreme Court.
For his part, in the years in which the espionage took place, Cuevillas acted as a defense of Puigdemont’s companions at the time he was arrested and, in addition, he exercised the accusation in the trial of the attacks in Barcelona and Cambrils of August 17 and 18, 2017, which ended in the conviction of its authors. His interest was focused on trying to demonstrate that Ripoll’s imam Abdelbaki Is Satty He was a confidant of the CNI and questioned his death.