Judge Ángel Hurtado has once again been current in our country after processing the State Attorney General, Álvaro García Ortizin a car full of holes. The truth is that the magistrate has a wide 42 -year personal career in the judiciary and has been attacked by Socialists and acclaimed by the ‘popular’.
But who is this judge? Your curriculum has 11 different destinations and two major cases, being the one of the gürtel plot the one that came the most impact. In these more than four decades it has gone through almost all levels: Courts of First Instance, Instruction, Criminal … Everything until in 2007 reached the National Court. It was in 2020 when, thanks to the conservative majority of the General Council of the expired Judicial Power, it amounted to its current position: magistrate of the Second Chamber of the Supreme Court.
Returning to the Gürtel plot, it causes that it was settled at the National Court, Hurtado was especially skeptical when calling to declare the then president of the Government, Mariano Rajoyas a witness. Hurtado first opposed him to quote him, then to do so in person and, finally, to do so, like any other witness, at the headquarters of the audience. When all this was inevitable, he reserved a privileged site inside the room, causing Rajoy’s chair to be placed right next to the court and its same height, not in front and a step below as usual.
Rajoy not only had privileges on the site assigned to him. During the two hours of declaration, Judge Hurtado cut all the questions that, in his opinion, It was “impertinent” to be made to the President of the Government.
For Hurtado, Link Gürtel with the PP dome was “a vacuum leap”
Everything culminated when it was time to write the sentence of the Gürtel, with Judge Hurtado unmarked from his other two companions by ensuring being against the condemnation of the PP for lucrative title through a particular vote. According to Hurtado, to link the gürtel plot to the Popular Party Directorate It was a “vacuum jump”. That sentence with which Hurtado disagreed was key for Sanchez to win the motion of censure and evict Rajoy de la Moncloa.
It has not been the only time in which Hurtado has been controversial. In 2009, he was part of the Court that ordered the definitively archiving the case. In their car, the judges granted greater credibility to the United States Army report than to the Spanish witnesses who were at the hotel where a shot ended the life of the journalist of Telecinco José Couso.
These two cases the most controversial of a judicial career in which we also find Several sentences against ETAthe acquittal of the singer Ramoncín for its management in the SGAE or, more recently, the nine -year increase in prison sentence to those sentenced by the Arandina case.
