Maracena (Granada), (EFE).- The mayoress of Maracena (Granada), Berta Linares (PSOE), has denied any involvement in the kidnapping of the councilor Vanessa Romero, for which her boyfriend is in prison, and He has regretted that the end of the summary secrecy disturbs 28M, marks his image and deprives him of fair elections.
Linares has made these statements in an appearance before the media, in which he has not allowed questions. That it has occurred a day after transcending that the Investigating Court 5 of Granada considers her an alleged inducer of her kidnapping together with the Secretary of Organization of the PSOE-A, Noel López. And to the Maracena Town Planning Councilor, Antonio García Leyva.
The mayoress has acknowledged her surprise at the legal deadlines. And she has criticized the lifting of the summary secrecy “two days” before the elections. What she has predicted will have an impact on the results.
Disrupt the elections
He has defended the innocence of the three socialists linked to the illegal retention of the councilor of Maracena 2030. And he has advanced that he will collaborate with justice. He has criticized the damage to her image and the fact that she is deprived of transparent and spotless elections.
Linares, received with applause in a hall of the Consistory, has begun her appearance on two occasions in which she has repeated the same phrases. A beginning dedicated to highlighting her surprise at the decision of the investigating judge not to extend the secrecy of the summary.
“It greatly strikes me, as you can imagine, that after three months of extending a summary, two days before the elections it is opened. It seems incredible to me, the only thing it is going to achieve is to disturb the result of an election ”, highlighted the socialist mayoress of Maracena.
Visibly affected, she has predicted that time will prove her innocence and has lamented that, when that happens, no one will be able to give her back “clean” elections.
It has advanced that the lawyers of the three socialists are examining the proceedings to study the possible allegations to the process. But he has completely disassociated himself from the retention of the councilor and party partner.
No clues, no proof
“There is not a single indication or proof that incriminates any of the three of us,” Linares summarized. That he has stressed that “none of the three are charged or investigated.”
These statements come after it became known yesterday that the Investigating Court 5 of Granada in charge of the illegal detention has raised the case to the Superior Court of Justice of Andalusia (TSJA) so that it can deduce testimony, as registered, to the parliamentarian and secretary of Organization of the Andalusian PSOE, Noel López, the current mayoress, and the Councilor for Town Planning, Antonio García Leyva.
The judge sees indications that the three could have acted as presumed inducers of the kidnapping carried out by the man who was the mayoress’s boyfriend at the time. That he is currently the only one investigated in the case and has remained in pretrial detention since the events occurred on February 21.
“It seems incredible to me that all the accusations that are being leveled against us are only taken by a person who was my partner at the time, a person who admits that he is mentally unbalanced, who recognizes a bipolar disorder, and we are paying attention to him,” Linares has clarified. That he has thus detracted from the statement of the only one investigated for the illegal detention.
Investigated Strategy
The mayoress has interpreted that, by presenting them as inducers, her ex-partner and the lawyer who represents her seek to “get out of prison.”
She has also asked her neighbors for “maximum peace of mind”, has assured that on the day of the kidnapping she collaborated with the Civil Guard and that she will continue to do so, and has said that López, García Leyva and she will testify in order to give the explanations that until now have not could offer.
In addition, he has asked the opposition, and especially the PP, “fewer accusations and fewer falsehoods” and has criticized that they try to “win in court” what they do not achieve with good management.
On the day of the events, on February 21, the only person under investigation detained Vanessa Romero, a councilor and partner of the mayor on the government team, with a knife and a simulated pistol, with whom he had previous confrontations and whom they allegedly feared. the possibility that he would make public some files on urban planning that would compromise the management of López and Linares at the head of the City Council, as stated in the court order with the statements of both.
The court order
In a previous meeting in a restaurant between the person being investigated -who suffers from bipolar disorder-, Noel López, the mayoress and the Town Planning councillor, these three allegedly proposed to give the councilor a “scare or lesson”, going as far as supplying Linares, always according to his testimony, “a bag of cocaine from Noel”, a week after that meeting, so that he “drank it and became emboldened” the day he committed the facts.
The record states that after leaving the councilor locked in the trunk of the car in a garage in Armilla, the person investigated went to a hardware store in Maracena to buy a knife to go back and cut the ties and that, once there, he found himself with his then partner, the mayoress, who, according to the defendant’s statement, informed him that the mayor had managed to free herself. A meeting of which, according to the judge, there is evidence due to the recording of some cameras.
On the other hand, the judge has raised a separate procedure to clarify the alleged existence of “criminally relevant” facts derived from the administrative files of the City Council of Maracena intervened in the case and that the kidnapped councilor had in the trunk of her car, the same in which she was detained. EFE