The Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, has complied with the Supreme Court ruling and has already reinstated Colonel Diego Pérez de los Cobos, whom he removed for, according to him, a loss of confidence after refusing to provide secret judicial information. He did not want to reveal the investigations into the 8-M demonstration, held at the gates of the pandemic, which was followed by a court.
With the execution of the ruling, handed down at the end of last March, Grande-Marlaska returns the high command to its position as head of the Madrid Civil Guard Command.
The Supreme Court ordered the reinstatement of De los Cobos, whose dismissal has been considered by the opposition as a “political cessation.” The court itself in its sentence reprimanded the minister for “inadmissible interference” in a judicial investigation.
The resistance that the Minister of the Interior staged from the first day to comply with the judicial decision has accompanied him until the last moment, as demonstrated by the delay in carrying out the sentence.
Interior had two months to restore the colonel but the time began to count from the moment in which the ruling was effectively notified to the Ministry. It was a maneuver – contemplated in the law – to dilate the times and that the return of Pérez de los Cobos took place after the general elections.
After the Supreme Court made its ruling public, the Minister of the Interior slipped formulas so as not to finish validating the decision of the magistrates and prepared the ground to avoid the return of the command of the Civil Guard in the event that the technicalities of the ruling were would allow
Grande-Marlaska then relied on the fact that she needed to know the textuality of the sentence, since the decision of the judges was advanced but not its content.
“We are going to wait to know the sentence and the technical reasoning of the High Court to dictate the resolutions that are appropriate in parameters and in technical-legal terms,” ??he said then.
He insisted on making it clear that the colonel did not have his confidence and that the reasons that, according to him, led to the controversial dismissal persisted. “The Ministry of the Interior reiterates that the substantive reasons that decided the dismissal persist and have been confirmed and consolidated with the elements known later,” he indicated without specifying which elements he was alluding to.
Grande-Marlaska avoided mentioning the investigation into 8-M – of which he refused to inform his political bosses – to focus on the management of reserved funds, casting doubt on the command of the Benemérita on account of the Kitchen case. He declared that there was a misuse of the reserved funds, competition from the area that the colonel directed with various ministers.
«The lack of confidence remains. This type of people is the one in which this Minister of the Interior has not had, does not have and will not have confidence. Would you have confidence in those people who managed the reserved funds and who managed the funds without due control?
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