Segovia (EFE).- The Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande Marlaska, has assured about the criticism of the PP at the end of the dispersal of the ETA prisoners that this party “practices cynicism and makes an absolutely inappropriate and indecent use of what has been the fight against terrorism in this country for the last fifty years.”
In statements to journalists this Saturday at the end of his speech at a municipal convention in Segovia, he has refused to evaluate criticism from some victims’ organizations because, in the minister’s opinion, “they are all a benchmark in terms of ethical values.”
If you have analyzed what you have considered “the indecent use of terrorism by the PP, when they transferred prisoners from the terrorist organization when the organization murdered, kidnapped and we were still fighting to defeat unreason”.
According to Grande Marlaska, “when ETA was still killing and kidnapping, the government headed by José María Aznar, in 1997 and 1998, brought more than 500 members of the terrorist organization ETA closer to the Basque Country and Navarra.”
For the Minister of the Interior, the dispersal of the prisoners was an “effective” anti-terrorist policy, but when the Rule of Law defeated the organization, applying the law, it no longer made any sense and, then, the General Penitentiary Law had to be applied. which establishes that “all inmates must serve their sentences as close as possible to their social environment.”
Around a dozen members of Jusapol, an association formed by agents of the National Police Corps and the Civil Guard, stood at the door of the municipal social center where the event was held, with a banner on which you could read “Wage Justice now” and shouts of “equalization, non-discrimination”.
Both in the public act and in his statements, Grande Marlaska recalled that, during the PP Government, 13,000 positions of members of the State Security Forces and Corps were lost, which have already been covered during the mandate of the Executive chaired by Pedro Sánchez, in addition to a 38% salary increase at this time, with investments in infrastructure of one billion euros to improve barracks and police stations.
Grande-Marlaska calls the PP to work to renew the CGPJ
Grande-Marlaska has also urged the PP to work for the renewal of the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ), after being asked about the possible resignation en bloc of the progressive sector in this body, which will decide this Tuesday.
He has indicated that “the PP must be aware that the situation is already unsustainable and that the General Council of the Judiciary must be renewed immediately.”
In the opinion of the minister, a magistrate on leave, “the attitude of the Popular Party is indecent, having kidnapped the General Council of the Judiciary in the last four years; We are already close to the extension of being five years, that is, a full term”.
Grande-Marlaska added that the PP should work for renewal “if it really has constitutional loyalty and the will to defend what is the dignity of the set of institutions, but we all know that it is taking too long to help renew the General Council of the Power of attorney”.