There were so many names and surnames. unpronounceable For a citizen, for whom members of the court, the prosecutor and even defense lawyers agree to refer to them not according to the information in their identification documents, but according to the number assigned to them in the list of defendants. The chamber president said, “He can declare number 14.” Javier Martínez Marfil. AND “number 14”The person who had to know in advance that this was his position on the list was moved to the place authorized to testify.
The prosecutor is seeking a prison sentence of six years for the official, three years for his partner and around 700 euros for 22 of the buyers.
A ritual completed one by one by more than twenty 84 defendants In the first session of the case held in the meeting hall in front of the Pardo Gimeno judicial building on Tuesday, a lawsuit was filed for forgery of registration documents. Benalúa de Alicante courts. Because the magnitude of the process (84 defendants were attended by their lawyers, translators, three judges and prosecutors) made it impossible for him to take part in one of the courtrooms.
At the hearing, the executive assistant in charge of the hearing Gandia City Council Municipal Register Until 2007 and when he ran a phone store with his romantic partner, a Pakistani national. Gorgos Cat. Both are accused of possessing a false registration document for at least one period in the town of Valencia 82 immigrants, They were all charged.
change years
The prosecutor’s office claimed that the public employee changed the years of residence by stating that the document holders exceeded three in order to apply for a work and residence permit. Alicante Immigration Office.
The defendant acted in agreement with his partner, who knew that the immigrants were interested in obtaining the document. living room. There, according to the public accusation, “he asked for a photocopy of their documents and sent it to the public employee for processing (…) demanded different amounts of money from them.”
This Tuesday, both the employee and his partner exercised their right not to testify after their lawyers asked a series of preliminary questions requesting a postponement of the hearing, but this did not happen either.
Those who testified were more than twenty of the 82 immigrants charged with obtaining these certificates, although they struggled with the language barrier that made the hearing arduous and the constant connection of room microphones. According to some, amounts varying between 300 to 2,000 euros. Some stated that they did not make any payments.
rapport
And they did this after admitting the facts in exchange for a reduction in sentence demanded by the Public Ministry, except for a few cases that should rightly have been left out of the case. An obedience that neither the official nor his partner wanted to accept.
Prosecutor accuses both The crime of falsifying an official document continues and seeks prison sentences of six and three years respectively, as well as the same number of disqualifications for the first person still actively working. A request that can be reduced at the final stage of the trial due to undue delays in a case dating back to 2000 2007.
The immigrants, who were also accused of falsifying documents, were offered a fine in exchange for their indictment, which in practice meant paying just over 700 euros.
They will be tried after this hearing 50 of 84 defendants As explained in the courtroom yesterday, he was either summoned but did not appear or could not be located. A situation that would, in principle, cause the court to issue a search warrant and, if they were not found, would come to light, leading to the paradox that those who acted in accordance with Justice would be worse off than those who did not.