Madrid (EFE) young man was “the boss of all”.
For his part, Little Nicolás has said in the last word that the Police inspector who carried out his investigation maintains an “open enmity” against him, that he obtained data irregularly and that, after nine years of legal proceedings since his arrest in 2014, he has already Accumulate sentences totaling more than eight years in prison.
“This is the last trial I have, and if I do not say it now I will never say it,” he told the Chamber that this Monday the trial of Gómez Iglesias and four other defendants for allegedly integrating a plot in the that the young man paid the agents and a municipal office to obtain confidential data, such as license plates, which he later used to pose as a member of the Government.
Next to Little Nicolás, three Madrid municipal police officers, a civil guard who was then in the Royal House and the one who was the Security coordinator of the Madrid City Council, Emilio García Grande, have sat on the bench. But last Friday the popular and private prosecution withdrew the charges against the municipal agent JLGC, who was thus exonerated.
The Prosecutor’s Office ratifies its request of 9 years and 9 months for Little Nicolás
The Prosecutor’s Office has ratified its request for 9 years and 9 months for Gómez Iglesias -the highest in the five trials it has faced-, and has also maintained those of the rest, arguing that the young man was asking for information in exchange for “gratifications”, since that in a chat with two agents they shared phrases such as “menu of the day, garden salad with purple radishes” to refer to payment in bills.
“The one who started it, the one who was the head of all of them, was undoubtedly Francisco Nicolás Gómez Iglesias,” said the prosecutor about the plot, stating that “it would have been better for him to dedicate himself to studying a career.”
The prosecutor has defended the validity of the search in the house of Little Nicolás and the rest of the proceedings, against the nullity requested by the defenses: “There was judicial control at all times.”
Along the same lines, the City Council lawyer has said that “Mr. Nicolás exercised the superior direction” of the plot.
This accusation requested 10 years in prison for Gómez Iglesias; 5 for the former municipal manager and between 5 and 8 years for the agents, but he has modified the sentences by lowering that of the civil guard and that of García Grande, in which he does not see the crime of bribery.
Inducer and not author of crimes
The accusation brought by the Municipal Police Association (APMU) has also lowered the penalties it requested, considering that Little Nicolás is an inducer of the crimes -not the perpetrator-, that the crime of criminal organization remains in a criminal group and that García Grande does not incurred bribery.
His lawyer, Alejandro Barciela, has defended the validity of the entire judicial investigation and has recounted how the plot worked.
On the other hand, the defenses of the defendants have agreed to request their acquittal because, first, the search warrant for Pequeño Nicolás’s apartment is invalid, which would invalidate the entire process, and also the crimes have not been proven and no one has denounced them.
The lawyer maintains that three fundamental rights of Gómez Iglesias were invaded
Gómez Iglesias’ lawyer, Juan Carlos Navarro, has argued that three fundamental rights of his client were invaded, in a prospective investigation.
He stressed that the young man, without being dangerous to the State, was followed by agents of the CNI and Internal Affairs, so that “no one escapes that intervening in this way and keeping his mobile in custody is because they were investigating something else.” .
He has requested that, if the young man is sentenced, the mitigation of undue delay and mental disturbance be applied.
The other defendants have argued that Pequeño Nicolás deceived them and Jorge GH’s lawyer, Sylvia Córdoba, has requested an order to pay the costs for the accusations of recklessness and bad faith.