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A sentence with brake and reverse
the world knew this information and promised to keep it secret until it was consummated, and he did. Now García-Abadilla has corroborated the facts reconstructed and the interlocutor of the court. We do not talk, then riding a mere rumor. is obvious that the acquittal of Trashorras as the author of the slaughter had not only removed the roof of the official version, as happened with the masterminds, but its very foundation . The whole building had collapsed with a crash and Leganés command would have been floating in space, no known suppliers of explosives. If in addition one or several policemen, the most obvious candidate was Sánchez Manzano - had been "little Sherry" as Bermúdez himself had forecast to various witnesses, the political scandal would have been uppercase and the circumstances of the victory of the PSOE in 2004 would have been questioned. Why during this decisive week Judge Bermúdez first took the brakes on those efforts righteous and then backed down on two of its three goals? Did you get pressure from the government? Did you consider the precariousness of their appeal at the head of the Criminal Chamber of the Court? "Pondered the effect a sentence and would have had in receiving the controversial book by his wife? The proof that in any case, their arguments were unheard of policies is in the format that made the decision: emphasizing all that supported the Government against the doubts and inquiries of our own newspaper and camouflaging the acquittal of the 'brains'. This sequence of events takes a great relief now because in the end goes to show that Bermúdez, man undoubtedly perceptive and intelligent, and realized what Antonio Iglesias shows when reviewing the analysis of explosives: the chemistry refuted version of the "Goma 2 ECO and better now." So pulled the ruse that it could be a second explosive feigning ignorance that trains so there was no trail was the first . Thus, we believe they should be Justice a second chance to find out what happened on 11-M. Could get through the fringes still investigating judge Velasco, Del Olmo disastrous successor, for example detention in Morocco of course Leganés floor tenant, but no one sees enough momentum in that direction. More feasible would be one of the convicted request a review of the sentence from a new fact and the report Iglesias or victims sued the then chief of the EOD and other policemen. memory of the dead and the dignity of the living require someone to raise in court the political obstacle that, by all indications, Gómez Bermúdez applied on their intelligence and awareness in October 2007.
Monday, May 25, 2009. Year XXI. Number: 7098. SPAIN
11-M, RESEARCH / New revelations Bermúdez changed at the last minute Case 11-M A week before notifying a judge said that only condemn Trashorras for trafficking in explosives and I was going to deduct police officers testified against Madrid
The setback to the official version of 11-M led to the decision of the High Court was about to be, in fact, a cataclysm. A week before issuing the ruling, Presiding Judge Javier Gomez Bermudez, corrected two essential elements that have shaken the version presented by the prosecution. late October 2007, the president of the Criminal Division sent confidentially to a judge's ruling three key aspects relating to the masterminds, explosives and potential liability prison officials. But what came out was a plan B in which only survived the absence of masterminds. By contrast, a miner from Asturias and loaded with explosives killed 11-M and no member of the Security Forces had to face any investigation. "A week before the decision is publicly notified, Gómez Bermúdez conveyed confidentially to a judge of the same three conclusions: 1. Not set the mastermind of the attack, contrary to what the prosecution claimed. 2. Deductions would testify for some control of bodies and state security forces. 3. Trashorras miner would not be condemned as responsible for the attacks, but only for trafficking explosives. " "This information," he continues, "it sent the director of THE WORLD third person, asked us to keep it secret until 31 October. So we did. Later I myself have had the chance to check with the source, in fact, that was the intention of the speaker to just one week to make public the statement. " However, only one of these points, the intellectual authors, survived the intense days preceding the public presentation of the sentence. The other two were not met. The truth is that if they had been heading the court, supplemented by Alfonso Guevara and Fernando Garcia Nicolas, the romp to the theory held by the prosecution would have been tremendous. "At least two of these conclusions (the second and third), which had been a major setback to the written conclusions of the prosecution and that would put into question the outstanding investigative work of police officers had to do with the explosives. " "If the explosive used by terrorists does not appear that outside Goma 2 ECO, the role of Trashorras was reduced to a mere provider of the the band of the Chinese. That would have allowed his conviction for trafficking, not mass murder. " With regard to the deductions of testimony, the conduct of the trial itself seemed to them inevitable. However, the court made by the Supreme exit and shook them off before putting on the ground that it was necessary to wait to see what was proven the High Court. The Supreme Court ruled, but the court of the High Court not to do it again. victims, disappointed, have repeatedly stated that Gomez Bermudez had assured them that some witnesses would "little of Jerez." Ie, to prosecute prominent commanders for crimes such as forgery of public documents, perjury, concealment or tampering with evidence, and so on. "I myself have heard the judge pronounce the sentence Gómez Bermúdez and I have no doubt that this was his will," added García-Abadilla in Titadyn. The list of candidates names were clear: the former head of Juan Jesus Sanchez Manzano EOD ; l a chemical that made the first analysis ; UCO Col. Felix Hernandez and the subject was confident contact Zouhier , the head of the UCAO, Domingo Castaño , and the instructor of the police inquiries about the 11-M . They claimed the allegations. But there sentence and there was nothing. Emilio Suarez Trashorras and his explosive Spaniard took 40,000 years in prison and no ranking police found his name in the ruling. So what happened? García-Abadilla offers two explanations: the evil and the probable. The first holds that "the Government, first interested in a statement that seems as much as possible to the findings of his office, offered him something related to your career. Maybe the support to new resources to snatch the presidency of the Criminal Division? Perhaps the president of the Hearing? No I think Gomez Bermudez has been bought so crudely, though his wife, Elisa Beni, in his book The solitude of the judge, suggests various pressures and more or less suggestive messages. " However, the most likely answer is another. "The judge probably acted knowing that his sentence, as we wrote, would be welcomed by the Government. Gómez Bermúdez seems that interacted with Rubalcaba, but that their relationship with him was not smooth. However, if it was with the Deputy Prime Minister Maria Teresa Fernandez de la Vega, with whom he had several conversations. Beni, in the aforementioned book, cites a compliment on Fernandez de la Vega at her husband. " In any case, both interpretations are developed on the same stage. "It's hard to go against the thesis that justified the unjustifiable. It was, indeed, very hard question an account of the facts that underlay the official truth about the 11-M, and would have been even harder to sit on the bench at some of those who made an elaborate cover-up about what happened '. court's president backed off only two crossings of the sentence, but he used the inertia of his TV appearance to attack some of the information published in this journal. "If the sentence was a cold shower for those who expected a verdict in accordance with the development of the hearing, the presentation by Gomez Bermudez himself of it was an unprecedented and unjustified attack on a media ( THE WORLD), just the one that had upheld the judge's action against the attacks of those who were too reluctant to accept the account and creative theories of the prosecution. " This unprecedented presentation was also harvest Bermúdez's own exclusive "The statement he read to reporters by the rapporteur, which was a subjective and biased view of the court, was not even agreed with the other two members of the Board. Later I had the chance to ask Alfonso Gomez Bermudez Guevara if they had taught him and Fernando García Nicolás read the letter to the media. 'No. For me it was a surprise. He said he was going to read some conclusions, but the letter did not teach us'. " A judge who knows the president of the Criminal Division interprets what happened: "'What did with his incomprehensible public presentation was to seek support from the media that he knew they would applaud the implicit criticism over the world to not crush it by an awkward sentence to the official thesis. Somehow, he used as a shield WORLD address these critical '. " Having the discretion provided by law, someone who knows him well believes that the judge acted "taking into account their interests." "In other words, I do not believe he did anything contrary to his convictions, but he thought of the effect of the court and served accordingly, "he added. The fact is that the result of what happened at the end of October was that "the man who had aroused the greatest expectations of the knowledge of the truth about the 11-M not only endorsed a statement that betrayed its own criteria (expressed , as already said, just days before a confidential basis), but used the day of its submission to attack more than half had worked to bring new information to the investigation. " To be attractive, the impact on the work of this newspaper was not the most relevant. "With his change of position, Gómez Bermúdez not only betrayed those who expected a more courageous: he has left victims without shelter in their just desire to know the truth and, above all, he has betrayed himself. " acquires is where the expert's sense Antonio Iglesias to review all data and analysis gathered in the three months through macropericial. "Open a new hope to know the truth. I use the words of Gomez Bermudez collected in a revealing interview he did with Esther Esteban in October 2006: 'There is still a matter of kicking GAL. And so will with 11-M. Whenever you see a new development, whether they appear before, during or after the trial, you can open a new investigation. That is the English judicial system. I'm sure you will discover the truth, can take more or less years. " So be it. " genuine search for truth final Juggling with detachable from the ruling came after 57 days of trial that deserved the unanimous praise for the president. "Gómez Bermúdez acted from the beginning as a real orchestra," says Garcia-Abadilla in 'Titadyn'. "He known samples of the record better than anyone. Authoritatively handled interrogations. Tax cut to Sanchez when he thought it was overstepping, creating moments of great tension in the room, always crowded. " At least in that phase of trial, before starting to chew all the keys of the sentence and sparking each of them ", the intention seemed commendable. "I honestly believe that Gómez Bermúdez undertook a difficult task to overcome during the hearing. It's not easy always kept aware of all for many hours and days without losing your cool, knowing maintained in place without abuse, without losing his composure. And I think his conduct the hearing involved a genuine desire to know the truth, within the logical limits which could be moved and marked by a summary came full of holes. " All this, moreover, in circumstances that were never produced. It was a televised trial during which Gómez Bermúdez was open to talking with all media, including those who had recently blasted him for suggesting that a sentence could be "open." "We were facing an unusual behavior. Certainly, with skill and know-how, Gómez Bermúdez became a star much brighter than the hitherto only star of our universe judicial, Baltasar Garzon. " A charge shaky
Gomez Bermudez was the first day of trial of 11-M with his position "precarious" as recalled Garcia-Abadilla. On his appointment as chairman of the Criminal Division of hung the threat of another cancellation, then it was two-that without it would not have affected the trial itself would have created a delicate situation. In fact, Gomez Bermudez presided over the court simply 11-M since he, as chairman of the Board, wanted to do, and not because it appropriate. his wife's book includes a protest about it. "And you can not, ever, work surrounded by the serenity necessary? Is it not possible ...?», said when he learned in May 2007, in the trial, the prosecutor supported the annulment of his appointment. The first cancellation was due to the action of another candidate of the hearing, Judge José Ricardo de Prada. The second was due to an action brought by a judicial colleague also Baltasar Garzon, who aspired to the job. The third appointment was again used by Prada in two ways, one of which was supported by taxation. The cycle of appointment-only resort was closed in January 2008, when the sentence was handed down March 11.
Monday, May 25, 2009. Year XXI. Number: 7098. SPAIN
11-M, RESEARCH / New revelations judges and victims Slap
The book's wife reproach Bermúdez received unanimous To everyone's amazement, three weeks after the ruling on the slaughter was released a book about the trial written by the president's wife, Elisa Beni. The loneliness of the judge (Temas de Hoy) received no praise and yes a barrage of criticism from the legal world and the victims themselves. tougher response to the presiding judge who came from throughout the trial he sat at his right hand. Judge Alfonso Guevara Gómez Bermúdez felt that it had acted with "disloyalty as a friend, partner and president" and described as "hurtful" some reviews of the book, whose preparation had not news. It was the only judge who lost out compared to the more correct performance of the author's husband. The list of victims also included Juan del Olmo, instructor of 11-M, and Baltasar Garzon, Bermúdez rival for the presidency of the Chamber. Only two of the 18 co-Gómez Bermúdez in the Criminal Division of the president accepted the invitation to attend the book launch, held in a funeral. A few days later, at a meeting of the plenary, the judges of the High Court also disagreed with the work. According to judicial sources, the president of the Court, Carlos Divar, lamented the damage that the work could be done to the image of the court. In addition, there was the protest of the victims, led by Pilar Manjon, who threatened a lawsuit against Bermudez. CGPJ also came to consider whether the content of the book implied that the trial judge had committed any wrongdoing. The latest bad news about the book arrived last February. A Madrid court sentenced Beni by interference with the right to honor a lawyer 11-M and ordered to rectify two chapters of the work. Previously, the publication and Beni had cost his dismissal as head of press of the High Court of Justice of Madrid.
Sunday, May 24, 2009. SPAIN
TUESDAY BOOK IS PUBLISHED WITH THE FINDINGS OF CHEMICAL ANTONIO IGLESIAS The report should reopen the case of 11-M BY GARCIA-Abadilla CASIMIRO met Antonio Iglesias (Madrid, 1940) in the spring of 2007 when the author of the report in their hands had already completed his work as an expert for the court that tried the terrorist attack of 11-M. From the first moment I was struck by his slow way of speaking, his precision of language and, above all, his prudence when making value judgments. [...] A year after the ruling was issued in autumn 2008, during the course of a luncheon, Iglesias told me he was about to complete a job he had spent almost a year and involved a review of the report that once appeared before the court. The adventures of former chief the EOD Juan Jesus Sanchez Manzano left many dents in the record of 11-M and the court condemned to the inevitable: order a new expert. Things did not improve. The four official experts were more willing to protect the official version to take with the amazing scientific aseptic data arose. The events raised many suspicions among the four independent experts that one of them, Antonio Iglesias, calmly decided to review all the material come to the expertise and pour it into a new macroinforme. This work is light Tuesday on 'Titadyn' (The Sphere Books), which opens with a lengthy prologue in which the deputy director of THE WORLD, Casimiro Garcia-Abadilla, reconstructs the amazing political journey of scientific criminal investigation linked to explosives. This is an excerpt of these pages. Nothing is more obstinate than a scientist. Iglesias had reviewed one by one all the tests conducted in the Forensic Science Laboratory during the hundred days of the expertise ordered by the court. When asked about the reasons which led it to dig back at the hard work he replied without hesitation: "I like to do things with logic, precision and calmness. The number of irregularities that occurred during the execution of the test, as well as the difficulties we had to present our view during the hearing, took me to get down to work. It was a moral obligation to myself, to the chemical profession and, above all, with the victims. " TWO NEW KEY
[...] then go into depth on each aspect of this research, but as an advance of what is in this scientific study, which we call Church Report, which has been endorsed by the College of Chemical Madrid, I will highlight two of the most illuminating findings. The first, which is "highly probable" that at least in the focus issue 3 of the station of El Pozo Titadyn outbreak. In any case in this outbreak erupted Goma 2 ECO. The second, that the samples M-2 (rest of explosive found in the van Renault Kangoo) and M-3 (the standard sample of Goma 2 Eco dynamite used for comparison with the previous) 'from the same cartridge. " The first of these conclusions (the "highly probable" to a scientist means being on the threshold of absolute certainty) is itself enough transcendental to completely rethink the official account of events. [...] The second of the conclusions outlined above sheds light on a latent suspicion throughout the process: the police station in the EOD, the command of Juan Jesus Sanchez Manzano, could manipulate the evidence to guide research towards a single explosive and, therefore, to a specific author. [...] MANZANO gaffe The issue of explosives would not have aroused no controversy if it were not for the stupidity of their own Sánchez Manzano. Indeed, the superintendent of the EOD, in his appearance Commission of Inquiry to the 11-M, which took place on July 7, 2004, said: "I have said that the remains of the centers of the explosions reach 12.30 unit, begins its analysis and are obtained first results around 1400 hours [March 11]. In some cases (notably in eight of the 10 outbreaks), not all, when doing analysis of the remains of the focus of the explosion we find traces of nitroglycerin, and nitroglycerin is a component of all the dynamite. " [...] However, two years later, in July 2006, he was just a member of the EOD who I drew attention to a detail that no one had paid attention: [...] - What was it that exploded on trains? - returned to the fray.
With the excitement of someone who is about to discover a fact that could turn around the research I began to review all documentation [...] None of the reports submitted to the judge in the summary 20 / 2004 is referred to as nitroglycerin compound of the Goma 2 ECO. [...] Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba, remained in those days, several discussions with the director of El Mundo, Pedro J. Ramirez, which tried to excuse the chief of the EOD, which he defined as "a good professional that we do not name, but the PP." "It was confusion, "argued the minister. Look, I am but I can say that chemical is easily confused, especially with a compound that is part of the dynamite. Do not turn more laps. " [...] Sánchez Manzano came to testify before Del Olmo. What did our chief inspector to judge? [...] On the one hand, Apple says that confused with nitroglycerin dynamite and other, claims that appear at the Commission's 11-M did not refer to that attack, but to "any attack." [...] My source, a highly experienced EOD had achieved its objective. Not only had we on a track that was so shaken by that date was a truism (that terrorists had used Goma 2 ECO), but directed us to the unprecedented circumstances in which there was research on a fundamental element of the gun crime. TOMB ACEBES
March 11, the then Interior Minister Angel Acebes, convened at the headquarters of the Ministry a meeting of all the top anti-terrorist police [...] It discussed at length on the possible authorship of attack. The heads of the security forces had many doubts. [...] However, shortly before the end of the meeting, about two in the afternoon, Diaz Pintado received a call from Commissioner of Public Safety, Santiago Table Jaén, in which he informed him that according to the EOD, the type of explosive used by terrorists was "Titadyn with detonating cord." Titadyn say it was like to say that the author was ETA. [...] This data was also the Angel Acebes was certainly a point to be responsible for ETA in a press conference held about three in the afternoon of March 11. [...] At five in the afternoon, before starting a new meeting of senior police officers in the office of Diaz de Mera, Santiago Díaz Table Pintado told that the explosive used was dynamite, not Titadyn. The Police Force deputy flew into a rage, because that information was just the opposite of what he had said hours earlier. [...] Most incredible of all, who had given this information to Table Jaén was none other than Sánchez Manzano, the same as that sent to it, according to Diaz Pintado, that the explosive was "Titadyn with detonating cord" just three hours earlier. EMBARGO INFORMATION At five in the afternoon, Sanchez Manzano sent to the Forensic Science Laboratory to analyze three samples: the M-1 (powder extinguisher), the M-2 (the rest of explosive found in the Kangoo) and M-3 (a supposed standard sample of Goma 2 ECO). According to Manzano's own version before the judge and court, with the first analysis, which were made in the laboratory of the EOD between noon and two o'clock in the afternoon, had not been able to determine the type of dynamite. [...] technicians of the Scientific Police have not completed their analysis of the three samples until seven o'clock. In an unprecedented step, the superintendent of the Scientific Police, Carlos Corrales, who was in his hands the results from seven in the evening, did not allow be referred to the Minister until ten at night. That is, for three hours Corrales knew that the explosive was Goma 2 ECO Kangoo (with the addition of methenamine) and did not allow further information regulatory channels. At quarter past eight p.m. Acebes gave a new press conference in which he reported on the discovery of the Renault Kangoo and which re-emphasized that, according to police, the explosive used by terrorists was "habitually used by ETA." "Corrales someone reported the results of the analysis of explosives between seven and ten? Since then, Acebes seems not. Anyway, it was not until ten at night time that Corrales authorized the test results of the Scientific Police was transmitted to the Ministry of Interior, when Titadyn definitely ruled out and it was assumed that the explosive used was Goma 2 ECO: The thesis of the authorship of ETA, maintained by the Government, began to deflate. Commissioner Sánchez Manzano was the first analysis of 11-M and eventually dismissed My source in the EOD had placed us on a track of long haul. Suddenly, explosives became the most interesting aspect of the investigative report about the attack. [...] Sánchez Manzano had sent two reports to Judge Del Olmo explosives. The first, dated March 12, included the analysis of Forensic Science for the M-1, M-2, M-3 and M-4. As you recall, on the morning of March 12 had Vallecas backpack off, the content also considered the experts of the Forensic Science (this sample is the M-4). The components were those of the Goma 2 ECO, but methenamine, of course. And they did state the experts of the Scientific Police in his report. One of the experts who participated in this analysis told me later: "The explosion of the Kangoo, the standard sample and the Vallecas backpack were different. It was obvious. " For all blocks, in the report submitted to the judge, Sánchez Manzano also introduced the methenamine component in the explosive bag Vallecas. That way led to Judge Del Olmo to commit blunders. However, Sanchez Manzano did not bother him from his error. When all is said and done, must have thought, who was going to get to investigate what were the components of the Goma 2 ECO? PLUNDERED
The misunderstanding was not corrected until April the following year. It was by chance. [The judge Teresa Palacios] Judge Del Olmo sent a letter in which, at the request of the Guardia Civil, he requested to indicate "whether in all samples [...] has located the substance known as methenamine." This question, made by experts from the Civil Guard was a knock to the credibility of the EOD superintendent [...]. The answer he gave judge [...] Sánchez Manzano made us see, once again, the inexhaustible creativity of the head of the EOD. Sánchez Manzano attributed to "a clerical error 'mention of methenamine as a component of explosives recovered in the station of Puente de Vallecas. Regarding the presence of the same substance in the wreckage of the Kangoo waxed paper and the standard sample of Goma 2 ECO, the justification given was the "pollution." NADA IN THE SPOTLIGHT To be scandalous manipulation of the reports and the explanations devised by the chief of the EOD, my source insisted over and over again on another issue: "the key is research on the analysis of outbreaks of explosions, "he said [...]. What we found in both reports is that the analysis of the remains of 10 outbreaks of the EOD expert chemist could only determine the existence of "components of dynamite", but these did not mention any of them. [...] I repeat once again: the Titadyn and Goma 2 Eco dynamite. How chief of the EOD guessed that it was Goma 2 ECO? [...] When we released in the world, no, no chemicals or explosives experts and, of course, our sources in the EOD, gave credence to that claim impossible. No one can say that there is a substance without knowing the components thereof. It's that simple. Logic sometimes is more useful than the pseudoscientific verbiage [...]. EODMy friend, who used the mail, a name that has a lot to research, but for obvious reasons I can not reveal, went further and suggested to me by email: "Is not I have asked why the analysis of the foci were made in the laboratory of the EOD and not of the Forensic Science? ". Sometimes I was angry because I was sure he already knew the answers to your questions. Yes, it was really strange. [...] Les add that the only officially approved laboratory for analysis of explosives is the Scientific Police, not that of the EOD. [...] Why Sánchez Manzano was saved the remnants of explosive found in the pockets of the trains? During his testimony before the court, which occurred on March 14, 2007, [...] again surprised the crowd with a new theory: the laboratory of the EOD examined exclusively the "leftovers pesables no", while the laboratory Scientific Police was responsible for analyzing the "leftovers pesables." [...] When he appeared in court the expert of the Scientific Police Manuel Escribano (which analyzed the samples on 11 March) and asked if there had been analyzing the remains of explosions in his laboratory, said that 83% of which he personally conducted more than 30 years service correspond precisely what remains Sánchez Manzano called pesables not. YES NOW [...]
However, there was still a doubt Was any written report? You really could not determine any component? [...] The expert gave another big surprise for his statement. [...] Some light on that day he lit the mind because, to the amazement of everyone, said: "nitroglycol and ammonium nitrate." Unbelievable. Three years after the attack, the expert admitted that the EOD it in their analysis found those substances that, as you can imagine, are as components of the Goma 2 ECO and the Titadyn. [...] FALL do not know how they must have felt Sánchez Manzano, after having secured by active and passive components was impossible to know what was in the explosive [...]. The information published THE WORLD from July 2006 and the resulting pressure of all the police unions, without exception, led the Chief Information Commissioner, Miguel Valverde, to remove him from office in December of that year. That is, a couple of months before the start of the hearing. Interior did not want getting caught with a guy as imaginative as Sanchez Manzano. Garzon said ETA and 'confuses' Del Olmo According to a source of all credit, Judge Garzón himself was sure of that argument [that he had been ETA] until late afternoon on day 11. In the morning, as stated before the parliamentary inquiry, when he was at Atocha station, the EOD officer told him that the explosive used was Titadyn. At 16.45 pm the same day, phoned Garzón Juan del Olmo, who had already taken over the investigation. Del Olmo was in those moments when one of the IFEMA pavilions that was used to deposit the bodies. Garzon assured the judge that the author of the killing was ETA. Knowing Garzon's contacts with the police, that statement was almost a guarantee of truth. The same explosive
pages 'Titadyn' list the most relevant analysis expert. The left image gives the chromatogram of standard sample of Titadyn, seized from ETA two weeks before the 11-M. On the right answers to the same analysis of the most important example of the limelight, a powder fire extinguisher found in El Pozo designated as M-1. According to the opinion of independent experts, the overwhelming similarity between the detected items, nitroglycol (EGDN), nitroglycerin (NG), dinotrotolueno (DNT) and phthalates-pointing that erupted Titadyn, not Goma 2 ECO, which lacks two of these elements (nitroglycerin and DNT). | |
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