The Dean of the Madrid Bar Association, Eugenio Rippon, confirmed today, Tuesday, before the court that is trying the State Prosecutor, the danger of leaking the conversations between the lawyer and the Public Prosecutor in the Siddiq case. … Ayuso in the center of defense and how Alvaro Garcia Ortiz tried to position him “Warm clothes” for the inconvenience you have caused in the legal profession Publication of the information note in which the exact content of the conversations between Prosecutor Salto and the lawyer of Alberto González Amador was revealed.
In her testimony as a witness, Rippon, the prosecutor in the case, confirmed that Regional Prosecutor Pilar Rodriguez admitted to her that after being contacted following the alarm resulting from the press release issued by the Public Prosecutor’s Office, Rodriguez admitted that she felt like a “sandwich”, pressured from above and below to publish that memo, which she admitted “did not come directly”, from her department. «S“I realized the anxiety”The Brigadier General said, and this is the context of the meeting to which the Public Prosecutor summoned the witness the next day at the State Public Prosecution headquarters.
The next day, Rippon attended that meeting, where alongside García Ortiz and Rodriguez were the prosecutor of the Technical Secretariat, Diego Villafañe, and two other prosecutors whose names he did not know. There was a remote contact with the then president of the General Council of Spanish Lawyers, Victoria Ortega. In that meeting, García Ortiz tried to justify the OTP memorandum and Pilar Rodriguez also took responsibility for it (which she had not done the day before). “The Attorney General’s Office tried to justify the appearance of the email on its part. One of the main points of the meeting was the verbatim transcription of the email, time and details. “If you want to be informed, it is not necessary to reveal the full content of the communication that is part of the communication between lawyer and client,” he explained. “The association does not work for the benefit of a particular lawyer, but for the practice of the profession.” The Dean of Lawyers in Madrid insisted that “the reason that sparked panic and complete confusion in the legal profession was the publication of the press release.” “This is why the government council is in session and why we are restricted.”
“It was a five-way conversation that was difficult to follow, with the prosecutor at one point bringing up a statement between the State Attorney’s Office and the legal profession to state that ‘there was a climate of coordination.’ Rippon then said that this was not his intention and that what they expected was an investigation and clarification of responsibilities: “The conversation rushes and ends in a few seconds.. “Pilar supports the memorandum and the five support García Ortiz’s thesis.”
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