I played again.
And again it has been ‘no’.
The Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, has given a slammaker to the rise to the two Choconers that he dismissed during his interior mandate.
Not even closeness to the tenth anniversary of the end of ETA violence and the important role they both had in the anti-terrorist struggle modified the Minister’s criterion.
Diego Pérez de los Cobos and Manuel Sánchez Corbí took places on the ladder to ascended to general, they were the first of their promotion.
From the next promotion, the minister ascended the first, on the sixth and eighth.
Some sources point out that in this way he ‘tries to camouflage’ the refusal to ascend these two colonels.
Its curricula and their merits accredited, again, as the first of the list of their promotions.
And that’s how the minister’s list was rising from the Civil Guard to decide.
But, for the second time, Grande-Marlaska, as Spanish has advanced, it has denied the ascent to the general.
From the Civil Guard it is evaluated – with a mathematical system – the annual ranking of the colonels in a situation of ascending.
The decision is finally from the minister, which takes into account – or not- the official ladder presented to him.
For the second time it has decided not to attend that ladder and has vetoed both colonents the promotion.
In a decision that has not surprised in the military station, but that he has left a profound discomfort again, since the proposal that emanates from the Civil Guard is usually respected and that he serves professional merits.
Manuel Sánchez Corbí was the first to ‘fall’ when Grande-Marlaska arrived.
He was in front of the UCO when an email from the colonel was filtered in which he complained about the lack of reserved funds and denounced that operations were going to paralyze.
From the inside, this public knowledge of an operating mail caused an immediate reaction and the dismissal of Sánchez Corbí at the head of the UCO, unity that were carrying out powerful investigations on corruption cases.
The case of Colonel Pérez de los Cobos – a keyman in the proceedings of the State against Procées in Catalonia – was the refusal to inform the Minister of a Judicialized Research on the Government’s actions with the Covid, which caused his resignation.
He understood the colonel that he did not have to report something triangicized anyone, who had a secret of performances, and the minister was fulminated.
Pérez de los Cobos resorted to the cessation of him to the national audience that initially gave him the reason and considered it illegal, but in the appeal interposed indoors, the room corrected that sentence and endorsed the decision of Grande-Marlaska.
Both Sánchez Corbí and Pérez de los Cobos were two of the civil guard ‘scores – not exempt from controversial – in the fight against terrorism during the end of the 80s and 90.
