As the government moves full steam ahead to promote the case file for the genocide of Tibet, through a bill Popular Party in Congress that can only come into force in two months, justice moves at snail's pace.
More than two months after that, on 18 November, the Fourth Section of the Criminal Division of the National Court agrees it arrest of five members of the nomenclature of Beijing (including former President Jiang Zemin and former Premier Li Peng), the corresponding orders for his arrest have not yet been studied.
It seems that the protests from the Chinese government, which summoned the Spanish ambassador in Beijing, Manuel Valencia, to express his "strong discomfort " and threatened economic reprisals (China's first commercial power in the world and the second holder of Spanish debt held foreign, with 20 % of the total), seem to have worked.
The latest delay has been caused by the decision of the Prosecutor of the High Court to submit an incident to quash the said agreement of November 18. Accepted this appeal would nullify the arrest warrant of the Chinese leadership. It argues that the prosecutor can not be issued such orders without having issued an arrest warrant or indictment against the five defendants.
On January 8, the investigating judge, Ismael Moreno, had high "consultation " to the Fourth Chamber, urging him to agree herself " prison, with the required motivation, the defendants against whom the interested issuing international arrest warrants. "
Two days later, the Fourth Board returned the hot potato reminding the judge that " the Criminal Procedure Act does not set in any of his articles that the court dealing with appeals is competent to issue warrants for arrest and issue the necessary orders search and arrest. " Put bluntly: who played him do it.
The rally between the judge and the Section Four is because the former has never been in favor of investigating the cause (in fact, tried to file it with the support of tax) and, much less, to impute to the leaders of the Chinese Communist Party. While the section headed by Judge Angela Murillo has forced him to one thing and another, taking the resources of the private and popular accusations. Precisely these allegations several weeks ago urged the judge to issue " without further delay " the arrest warrants.
After the final snub of the Fourth Section, Moreno has called on the Ministry of Security and the full personal identification data of the five Chinese leadership, in what would be a first step to making its search and seizure. But with the pending motion for dismissal by the prosecutor, issue could be delayed even for a while. Enough.
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