The Catarroja judge who is investigating the criminal case on the management of the dana granted the request for testimony from the national leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, via telematic means.
The judge refers in her resolution to article 412 of … the Criminal Procedure Law, which Feijóo mentions in his candidacy and which, in article 5, envisages the possibility for deputies and senators to testify from their official office.
In this sense, the judge “can only accept the request made, that the witness’s statement be made from his official office in Congress, by telematic means, in accordance with the aforementioned precept invoked by the witness, on which he relies, via webex”.
Likewise, he emphasizes that “all this without prejudice to the possibility for the witness to appear before this Court to testify in person on the date indicated”.
Feijóo sent to the court on December 24 a notarial deed containing the WhatsApp messages he received from the former president of the Generalitat Valenciana, Carlos Mazón. Now the instructor offers him “the possibility of voluntarily contributing to this cause, within 3 days, the WhatsApp messages that are an integral part of the conversation” – that is, those that he sent to Mazón – that fateful day.
By order of December 12, the Catarroja magistrate agreed to summon Feijóo as a witness, at the request of the prosecution led by the Association of Fatal Victims Dana 29-O, for his statements to the media on October 31, 2024, two days after the blockade, at the headquarters of 112 in Eliana (Valencia).
“The President of the Generalitat, since last Monday, has been informing me in real time and telling me that the situation is very complex. And since Tuesday, he has informed me, like yesterday, that we fear that there will be more deaths,” declared the national leader of the PP.
The instructor indicated that the witness “could explain the comments that the president of the Generalitat could have made following the conversations” with Salomé Pradas, the former emergency advisor in charge of the file, and the “information he received”.
“Information about the seriousness of the situation would have come largely from Ms. Pradas to Mr. Mazón, and he in turn would have informed Mr. Núñez Feijoo,” he said.
These “real-time” conversations would involve “a succession of communications and messages” between the two popular leaders which would touch on “key issues in the information on the seriousness of the situation and the measures that are being adopted by Cecopi, in particular the launch of warning messages to the population and the actions of the person indicted”, explained the judge.
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