The state attorney general turns her number two into a ‘bodyguard’

Alvaro Garcia Ortiz, chief prosecutor of the technical secretariat, the right-hand man of the State Attorney General (FGE), is not Frank Farmer (played by actor Kevin Costner), the protagonist of the movie ‘The Bodyguard’ (1992), but his role was the same this Wednesday: to protect Dolores Delgado.

At the meeting of the Fiscal Council, his interpretation consisted in attacking the fiscal lieutenant of the Superior Court of Justice of Madrid (TSJM), responsible for the investigation of the alleged leaks of the summary of the ‘Tándem-Villarejo case’ by the prosecutor Ignacio Press.

But with that attack, perhaps without realizing it, driven by the inertia of the power available to him, García more than confirmed what is already common knowledge based on the ‘papers of the Attorney General’s Office’. Namely: that behind the instruction of the aforementioned proceedings was the state attorney general. Your explanations on how Carlos Ruiz de Alegria he had carried out an incomplete work and how, to make matters worse, he had handed over the entire file to the prosecutor Stampa, including the black box (García’s communications with the TSJM prosecutor’s office indicating what they should investigate). This Garcia explained was “reserved matter”.

A bad pass

His imposed transparency played a trick on him. Why did the head of the technical secretariat have such knowledge of the investigation proceedings? Because the interest of the State Attorney General was in directing the proceedings from the technical secretariat, as he did in fact.

But, already finished the Fiscal Council, García made a ‘briefing’, an explanation to the more intimate media, in a somewhat outdated movie plan ‘The West Wing of the White House’, and explained that Dolores Delgado he did not know anything about his actions in the investigation proceedings, that the ‘suggestions’ to carry out proceedings, sent to the TSJM Prosecutor’s Office, had been his initiative. According to his version, in reality, Delgado had abstained.

The version of the prosecutors

This version was a response, too, to the argument of the vowels of the Association of Prosecutors – who supported the beheading of Stampa on October 27, 2020 because, they said, there was great “media pressure” to end the prosecutor of the ‘Tandem-Villarejo case’– that yesterday, at the meeting of the Fiscal Council, they fell off the cherry and emphasized: Dolores Delgado should have abstained in the proceedings on Stampa.

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The justification of the communications as “reserved matter & rdquor; It may seem like a joke. But is not. What García and Delgado have done is usually called in the language of the street, in a colloquial way, a Kafkaesque system. Stampa had to defend himself before an instructor, Carlos Ruiz de Alegria, and it turns out that actually behind him were García and Delgado, who asked for more proceedings.

Above all, as Carlos Ruiz de Alegría tells us in our interview, “to keep the matter alive” until October 27, 2020, when Delgado would take the proposal not to give Stampa a permanent position, after he instructed almost 30 pieces of the Tándem Villarejo case in almost four years.